Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also said that although any institution thatexcludes women is sexist, most Fly members used tobelieve that the merits of an all-male cluboutweighed the drawbacks. Now, that sentiment hasreversed...
Apple Computer, Inc. is calling its new computer the harbinger of a "new world," but Harvard students--echoing industry sentiment--aren't buying...
...BOTTOM LINE: A novel about a pianist's rise to glory is long on sentiment but never quite manages to score...
Cohen doesn't answer these questions, apparently in the name of objectivity. He doesn't want to interfere with the stories of the people he is interviewing. That's an admirable sentiment, but it makes for dry, choppy reading. It prevents us from knowing well the one member of the generation who this book could have let us know well--the author himself...
Sometimes the people reach that point first; sometimes their leaders do. Popular sentiment for an accommodation between Israel and the Arabs has been pushing up through the Middle East soil for six or seven years, ripening but not ready. Who's to say, exactly, what made an avowed terrorist and a gruff, tough soldier reckon the time to pluck it had come? Rabin, hero of the Six-Day War, stern enforcer of the occupation, talked about territorial compromise but seemed an unlikely figure to break long-standing taboos. As Defense Minister during the early days of the intifadeh, he vowed...