Sentence examples for against sentiment from inspiring English sources

This is her stand against sentiment.

Shahn was engaged in reform but against sentiment, against idealizing the poor; he said it was "alright to have a soft heart, so long as you have a hard eye".

Yet, in the realm of public morality it is necessary to weigh reason against sentiment, and to see how precedent and general policy will be affected by a particular and emotionally charged decision.

By the time she entered Vassar she was the fully formed person she would be for the rest of her life: beautiful and brilliant, possessed of an eye protected against sentiment coupled with a steel-trap mind and a tongue feared by all who had been at the receiving end of its talented sarcasm, a sarcasm that for some would always be wickedly amusing, for others just wicked.

A second-generation hibakusha who attended the session said Kishida's remark goes against sentiment in Nagasaki, which was flattened by an atomic bomb at the end of World War II in 1945.

The processions were partly a show of solidarity against sentiments like Trump's, as well as a soapbox for women who have gone unheard for far too long.

"So I cannot go against their sentiment.

The county council went against popular sentiment and granted permission.

But you steel yourself against that sentiment, that tendency.

Foreign players in Japan are not just up against nationalist sentiment.

India's regulators would have faced difficulty going against popular sentiment on this topic.