Word: sentimentalizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Take the parties. They arose in the 19th century as a two-way transmission belt. They gathered grass-roots sentiment and sent it up to the governing elites, who in turn used them to mobilize an otherwise unreachable mass electorate. A century ago you needed party rallies and precinct captains to get the message out. In the age of television and satellites...
...words apply to movies as well as baseball. If the people responsible for A League of Their Own had tried just a little harder to avoid easy laughs and easy sentiment, they might have made something like a great movie. As it is, they have made a good movie, amiable and ingratiating...
...regulatory barriers to construction of natural-gas pipelines pleased the gas companies but also promised increased use of this relatively clean energy source. Even the nuke- licensing provisions are less threatening than they seem: although it would take fewer steps to get a nuclear power plant licensed, antinuclear sentiment still runs strong, and the prospect of any new plants in the foreseeable future...
...about its subject, at least it speaks in an engaging voice: soft, literate, modest. Probably because Neal Jimenez, its writer (and co-director with Michael Steinberg), is writing autobiographically, he is less concerned with melodramatic invention than he is with anecdotal truthfulness. The movie chooses irony over sentiment for its basic tonality, and is the better for that uncommercial choice...
Many speculate that this sentiment will lead todemonstrations at graduation...