Word: sentimentalized
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...agree with a lot of the sentiment thatColumbus ushered in an era repressive to thenatives," Flynn said. "We would rather stress thepossibilities for better things in the future thandwell on the atrocities of the past...
...large segment of the public senses that the trash has risen to eye and ear level, and it smells rank. Freddy Krueger slices his way into little girls' minds, and Madonna's siren song & turns little boys into prematurely dirty men. Once the U.S. cinema was ruled by sentiment; now it is tyrannized by cynicism. Movies have assumed the omniscient sneer of a '50s greaser; they mock or duck any authority, whether the unfeeling parent, the stodgy teacher, the irrelevant clergyman or the brutal cop. And where once there was subtlety in popular art, now there is sensation. Traditional standards...
...very least, I thought he might shake up the system in this election. I was willing to give him some serious consideration come November. But his wimpy July exit from the race squelched my sentiment faster than a tractor wheel could squash a cow pattie...
...Sentiment is easy; comedy is hard. What's special about this movie is that the funny parts are so funny, with gags coming too fast and too good to be assimilated on first hearing. At such moments, the main reaction is exhausted gratitude. It's as if you hired a painter to do your bathroom and he gave you the Sistine Chapel at no additional cost...
Rudenstine said the sentiment of the report is that Harvard should stop payments to MIT which "amount to a kind of subsidy that we should...