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	sentimentalize - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		A land whose countryside would be bright with cozy homesteads, whose fields and villages would be joyous with the sounds of industry, with the...
		Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
		Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/searchdetail.aspx?q=sentimentalize&pg=1&grp=art (193 words)

	Sentiment and Sentimentality: Woman's Choice
		Sentimentality or false sentiment leads them from empathizing with the plight of women with problem pregnancies to removing the reputed cause of the difficulty, the unborn child.
		In that case it relates to an impression of the whole person and is called sentiment “Sentimental sensibility,’’ says John Paul II, “is the source of affection.’’ Sentiment is not associated with the desire to enjoy or use the other person; and is congruent with a desire to contemplate and appreciate beauty.
		Neither sensuality nor sentimentality are adequate as the basis for love between the sexes, says John Paul II (Wojtyla, 1993, pp.1 12-113, 124).
	www.catholiceducation.org /links/jump.cgi?ID=2793 (6541 words)

	"Sentimentality in A Tale of Two Cities" by Koryn Gadsden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The use of exaggerated sentimentality helped create a clear picture of the story’s issues in the readers’ minds; it gave a feel for the spirit of the times, and made it easier to understand the characters’ points of view.
		Also, the sentimentality, although at times difficult to endure, produced a deeper understanding and emphasis of the harsh conditions that the people of France dealt with.
		Lastly and most importantly would be Lucie’s elaborate expression of sentimentality in her constant fainting at the least sign of distress.
	library.thinkquest.org /2847/novels/tale2c8.htm (456 words)

	Interrogations
		Sentimentality is all about Feelings, so of course sentimentality is going to put Feelings in the center of the shrine.
		This is a very sentimental notion, and leads to another--that there is some connection between our longings and hungers, and how the world is. The belief (or unexamined assumption, is more like it) seems to be that because humans have always wanted and postulated one or more deities, that somehow shows there is a deity.
		A sentimental person may be kinder and more generous to people who are cute and appealing than to people who are ugly and unattractive...as ill or impoverished or miserable people often are.
	www.philosophers.co.uk /cafe/kass8.htm (977 words)

	Sentimentalism & Sentimentality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The fashion for sentimental novels started in the mid-eighteenth century with the publication of Rousseau's Julie, ou La Nouvelle Héloïse (1762) and Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774).
		These two novels introduced a new kind of sentimental love that "etherialized sex and made it into an affair of religious devotion rather than the body, a secular equivalent to the love a religious devotee feels towards the godhead.
		Along with a new vision of love, sentimentalism presented a new view of human nature which prized feeling over thinking, passion over reason, and personal instincts of "pity, tenderness, and benevolence" over social duties.
	faculty.gvsu.edu /websterm/Sentimentalism.htm (519 words)

	Sense and Sentimentality
		As Wojtyla explains, the beloved who is idealized "becomes merely the occasion for an eruption in the [person's] emotional consciousness of the values which he or she longs with all his heart to find in another person" (p.
		Perhaps the most tragic effect of sentimental idealization is that we end up not even really knowing the person we're so attracted to.
		For example, a man in sentimental love may seek to be close to his beloved, spend a lot of time with her, talk with her, and even go to Mass with her and pray with her.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/parenting/pa0111.html (1963 words)

	meaddesign.net » Blog Archive » Sentimentality and Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sentimentality comes about because of laziness, and because it is genuinely difficult to be truthful.
		If the work requires the viewer to bring his or her happy sentiments about the subject for the thing to have any value at all, then it is sentimental.
		Sentimentality is less of an issue in design, I think because design is generally focused on accomplishing something specific, such as communicating a particular idea.
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	The Trap of Anti-Sentimentality in Poetry
		Poems are labeled sentimental for trying to say something true and important that, however, is perilously close to sentimentality.
		THAT is the main reason I object to the label "sentimental": I'm sick of poetry that works harder at avoiding sentimentality than at attaining to a bit of truth.
		But to condemn them for sentimentality and then dismiss them is to fail to realize that they are tackling something difficult and ambitious and worthwhile that our prestigious poets are afraid to do.
	www.blehert.com /essays/sentimentality.htm (1570 words)

	Robert C. Solomon - In Defense of Sentimentality - Reviewed by Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College - Philosophical ...
		According to Solomon, this critical use of the word "sentimentality" is nothing but a convenient way of expressing a more comprehensive bias against emotion as such, and especially against a class of emotions variably described as the "sweet" or "tender" sentiments.
		In taking this unapologetic stand against those who have argued that sentimentality involves a wistful turning away from reality, or an objectionable misrepresentation of the world, Solomon puts himself in the position of having to defend any and every instance and type of emotion that has typically been stigmatized as sentimental.
		When Solomon reports his own "suspicion" that a specific criticism of sentimental emotion is based on an anti-passionate bias in the critic, this should not change the mind of anyone who suspects that the criticism is valid (242).
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=4481 (1508 words)

	Sentimentality vs. sentiment in writing (Literature / Poetry)
		Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
		Sentimentality is "dominated by a blunt appeal to the emotions of pity and love ….
		Maybe the poet is on "the thin ice of honest sentiment" and doesn't quite fall in the pond of sentimentality.
	www.proz.com /topic/31062 (828 words)

	On Sentimentality - by Douglas Bauer : Commentary : Pif - December 2000
		The insistent final optimism, for example, in the work of Dickens, reads to us now as extremely sentimental, for all there is to admire in him.
		Maybe, with these shifts of sensibility in mind, part of the problem is that sentimentality is similar to pornography — the perception of it differing from person to person.
		If this is so, then it might be helpful to think of it this way: Sentiment is to sentimentality as artful eroticism is to artless pornography.
	www.pifmagazine.com /2000/12/c_bauer6.php3?printable=1 (680 words)

	NYU Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		An often overlooked fact is that "Sentimentality" not only is a critical term, but is limited to a historical period, from roughly 1700 to the present.
		This loss of participation has become gradually apparant with the erosiion of its visible emblems: The Church (with its supporting Law); the extended family, as visualized in feudal, hierarchical theories of society; and finally the nineteeth-century ideal, the nuclear family, with its sacred location, the home, and its glorified Proprietress, the Woman.
		Sentimentality emerges, then, as a desperate, if often illegitimate, attempt to regain what has been lost, so that imaginative literature of the nineteenth century, even very good literature, is overwhelmed by domestic sentimentality.
	www.nyupress.org /product_info.php?products_id=3961 (432 words)

	ARMAVIRUMQUE: THE NEW CRITERION'S WEBLOG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Johnson recognized sentimental humbug when he heard it, and he was known to despise the hippies when they arrived on the public scene a few years later.
		He reckoned, in good Machiavellian fashion, that a sentimental appeal to love would be effective in a culture that, in the wake of the assasination of President Kennedy, was being overtaken by sentimental platitudes of all kinds.
		Perhaps the only lesson to be learned from this bizarre period is that, in the end, sentimentality can never answer nor succeed in putting aside the permanent questions of politics, namely: conflict, ambition, and the pursuit of power.
	www.newcriterion.com /weblog/2005/11/lyndon-johnson-and-cult-of.html (962 words)

	Jonathon Delacour: A metaphysical brothel for emotions
		The problem with sentimentality is that it obscures reality in a haze of ill-defined and manipulative feeling.
		And the Rottweiler’s sentimentality is no less sentimental because it is violent and vulgar.
		Then he sent a man to see that Baker’s hospital bills were taken care of, proving once again that sentimentality is often found on the other side of the same counterfeit coin as brutality.
	weblog.delacour.net /archives/2002/09/a_metaphysical_brothel_for_emotions.php (780 words)

	Reagan without sentimentality - Salon
		During the period of mourning, most criticism of the deceased leader will be tempered by respect for his family and friends.
		Yet it should be possible to eulogize rather than mythologize the 40th president and his times -- to acknowledge the skill, charm and commitment, without indulging in a sentimental revisionism that erases the historical reality of the 1980s.
		The sentimental version doesn't do justice to him and his legacy, for better and worse.
	dir.salon.com /story/opinion/conason/2004/06/08/reagan/index.html (951 words)

	A Few Words on the Attachments of Sentimentality and Pursuit
		Sentimentality helps to stabilize all the bad beings and substances that have fallen from the universe down to the Three Realms, which include the human world.
		However, it is from sentimentality that countless human notions and attachments are derived.
		Sentimentality makes one happy when one obtains what one desires, and makes one depressed when one loses what one doesn’t want to lose.
	www.pureinsight.org /pi/index.php?news=923 (694 words)

	THE CHARMS OF ENTROPY AND THE NEW SENTIMENTALITY:
		THE CHARMS OF ENTROPY AND THE NEW SENTIMENTALITY:
		Sergei Gandlevsky, one of the leading poets of his generation, has defined this trend as "a critical sentimentalism," holding the middle ground between two extremes, namely a lofty and detached Metarealism that ignores contemporary life, and Conceptualism, which is deliberately reductionist, ridiculing all stilted ideals and models of discourse.
		Lyrical sincerity and sentimentality die out in these clichéd words, in order that death could be trampled by death, so to speak.
	www.emory.edu /INTELNET/e.pm.conclusion.html (3455 words)

	SALON Reviews: Sense and Sentimentality, page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Sentimental romances are conventionally understood as escapist fantasies that help divert readers from their intractable problems; satire typically concentrates on those very problems, exaggerating them for comic effect.
		As an inveterate satirist, Almodovar is naturally suspicious of sentimentality.
		In his notes to the film, he writes that he is "terrified" to use a phrase like "the characters overflow with humanity" -- and with good reason.
	www.salon.com /10/reviews/almodovar2.html (556 words)

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		Is their a feeling in the RAF (or perhaps wider community) of loss or sentimentality at the demise of the old Sepecat Jaguar?
		Obviously costs and age condemn it to history, however, I'm curious as plenty has been made of the Lightning and Hunter over the years and I wondered whether the Jag was thought of as highly.
		The side by side arrangemen was due to the fact that the Hunter is build up en section to facilitate dismantling for transport to the colonies.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/567-2985.aspx (442 words)

	Popular sentiments: Victorian melodrama, class, and sentimentality
		A sentimental mode of representation flourishes in Victorian literature because such a mode can accommodate the representational needs of vastly divergent readers, spectators, and writers.
		Victorian stage melodrama, in contrast, uses sentimental images to appeal to the most socially diverse audiences.
		Melodramatic playwrights in London's West End, recognizing that their audiences include both aristocrats and chimney-sweeps, negotiate between the expectations, desires, and fantasies of such disparate audiences by presenting sentimental images of the family or the nation.
	repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI9713024 (280 words)

	Amazon.com: The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America: Books: Shirley ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Samuels's collection of critical essays gives body and scope to the subject of nineteenth-century sentimentality by situating it in terms of "women's culture" and issues of race.
		Presenting an interdisciplinary range of approaches that consider sentimental culture before and after the Civil War, these critical studies of American literature and culture fundamentally reorient the field.
		Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture by Mary Chapman on 9 pages
	www.amazon.com /Culture-Sentiment-Sentimentality-19th-Century-America/dp/0195063546 (1080 words)

	Roger Kimball on September 11 & Sentimentality on National Review Online
		I think of Hallmark because of the pullulating ocean of sentimental rubbish elicited by the event, the fetid current of fake emotion, alternating wildly between the lachrymose banalities of professional "grief counselors" and the hollow solemnities of journalists straining to package and repackage the event for this evening's ratings game.
		There was even a visit to a support group where brave faces were interrupted with tears and put back together with make-up lessons: the cosmetic consultant told listeners that she had never understood what sadness could do to one's face.
		If the anniversary of the terrorist attacks brought forth an abundance of nauseating sentimentality, it also, in some quarters, precipitated a new clarity.
	www.nationalreview.com /comment/comment-kimball091102.asp (982 words)

	Sentimentalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion.
		Sentimentalism (literally, appealing to the sentiments), as a literary and political discourse, has occurred much in the literary traditions of all regions in the world, and is central to the traditions of Indian literature, Chinese literature, and Vietnamese literature (such as Ho Xuan Huong).
		The term sentimentalism is used in two senses: (1)An overindulgence in emotion, especially the conscious effort to induce emotion in order to enjoy it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sentimentalism (146 words)

	Small `Wonder' / Sentimentality bogs down story of struggling novelist
		Hanson does his best to create a world for ``Wonder Boys,'' something he did quite effectively in ``L.A. Confidential.'' This world is one of 100-year-old brick buildings and lecture halls populated by an insulated enclave in which everyone knows each other.
		Too bad Hanson lets himself get taken in by the academy's vision of itself and presents Grady and his circle in sentimental terms, as a flawed but valiant community of artists.
		The sentimentality overtakes ``Wonder Boys'' when, in the last half hour, it tries to make nice with its characters and fashion a deep message from a trivial story.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2000/02/25/DD23174.DTL (639 words)

	Disturbing Sentimentality \| Theater \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		THORNTON WILDER'S Our Town has a reputation for being a drippy, sentimental portrait of small-town American life--and for the first act, it is: An omniscient Stage Manager paints a picture of Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, cast in a golden, nostalgic light.
		But Wilder-- heavily influenced by Bertolt Brecht's theories of the anti-realistic Epic Theatre--presents this Norman Rockwell portrait with a variety of minimalist theatrical devices (for example, the Stage Manager asks a professor to describe the geological history of the town's countryside, and chairs represent graves).
		It soon becomes clear that sentimentality is also a convention, a means to convince us that we know who these people are--lulling us into assumptions that will be subtly and effectively disturbed later.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=5235 (369 words)

	Sentimentality. A blessing or a curse? - QLC Message Boards
		If it wasn't for being sentimental, I wouldn't have held onto these connections and perhaps they would have forgotten about me! I've had friends tell me that they appreciate the fact that I'm sentimental and that even if we've haven't talked for years, they are so glad I made the effort!
		The downfall of being sentimental is that sometimes you'll get disappointed because you'll remember someone as being better in your memories and then you get disappointed (ex: happened with a crush that lived far away).
		I don't know, I consider myself very sentimental, and it's great when things are going well in my life, and it SUCKS when I'm depressed.
	www.quarterlifecrisis.com /forums/showthread.php?t=6125 (957 words)

	sentimentality (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Audience is extremely sentimental; always for the good guy.
		When material is sentimental, sentimentality will turn audience off.
		A trap: that it is a sentimental scene.
	www.abwag.com /sentimentality.htm (117 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Sentimentality, Sentimentalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The emotion was soon derided and considered pathetic, but the benevolent concern with human goodness can now be seen as a way station on the road to a more humane and just society.
		Prime examples of sentimental novels are Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield, Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling, Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey.
		This topic is given extensive consideration in the entry for Sensibility.
	www.litencyc.com /php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1004 (150 words)

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