Word: sentimentalized
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Congress, however, has decided to ignore public sentiment. On June 15, by a vote of 239 to 190, the House passed a bill doing exactly what most Americans oppose, and the Senate is now debating the bill...
...ought to remove everything from the banks of the rivers and let nature take its course. On the other extreme are folks who urge us to line the river with levees and control the whole thing. The real answer is, there has to be some balance." An unexceptionable sentiment, no doubt -- but where to strike that balance? Should the levees that gave way be rebuilt and made higher? Or should they be left alone, on the assumption that they give people living behind them a false sense of security, and emphasis be shifted to waterproofing buildings and moving them...
...image (she once asked Stephen Sondheim to rewrite Send in the Clowns). She tends to avoid singing one note when three or eight will do. All her emotions are bigger than life -- bigger than the afterlife if you include On a Clear Day You Can See Forever -- and every sentiment seems to end in multiple exclamation marks...
...That sentiment was echoed by Patricia Morgan, executive director of the Baxter Foundation, who praised the "innovative," "progressive," and "culturally diverse" staff of The Cambridge Hospital...
...could save $8 billion a year by cutting social services to illegal immigrants and later repeated the thought, though not the number, on national TV. "When a savvy politician like Breaux does that, it tells you something," says a White House aide. There is some thought that anti-immigrant sentiment is helping Ross Perot to drum up opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, which would create a Canada- U.S.-Mexico common market. NAFTA does not deal with immigration, and Perot has not mentioned the subject. But some analysts think he is tapping, deliberately or not, into a vein...