Word: sentimentalized
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...know about this. Sure, "10,000 Men" excludes women. Yes, the "let's stomp Eli" sentiment is militaristic. And in terms of style it's more analagous to "The Lawrence Welk Show" than "Hangin' With...
Diego Arceniagas, playing Blanche's lover Dr. Harry Trench, is a little less convincing. The character was meant to represent typical middle class attitudes, and is therefore the figure most relevant today. He has admirable sentiment of right and wrong, but he lacks the strength of purpose to put them into practice. His position as a member of London's upper class makes him shy away from socialism, and he hastily points out: "If I took the trouble to vote, I would vote conservative." Unfortunately, Arceniagas's rather flat interpretation fails to do justice to this character...
While Cokane represents Dickensian farce, Lickcheese the rent-collector (John Drabik) represents Dickensian sentiment. Shaw is clumsy in his treatment of Lickcheese, and makes himself a little ridiculous by his continuous harping on the theme of hungry children and weeping women. The older Shaw knew how to tread lightly over such subjects...
...very end, polls showed Clinton still struggling to prove to the American people that he could be trusted. But such concerns were not enough to outweigh the reigning sentiment that the President had lost touch with the nation he governed...
...June, when he had the Democratic nomination locked up but was running behind Perot as well as Bush. In early February columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak reported that "mainline Democratic politicians" considered Clinton to be "one of the walking dead who sooner or later will keel over." That sentiment would be repeated many times until the late-summer polls gave...