The term sentimental, in its mid-18th-century usage, signified refined or elevated feeling, and it is in this sense that it must be understood in Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey (1768).
The cascade of feeling to behavior to elevated feeling to ennobled behavior spirals us toward infinity.
As the critic John Mullan points out, by the end of the eighteenth century, according to the O.E.D., the word "sentimental" ("exhibiting refined and elevated feelings") had acquired a new meaning — "addicted to indulgence in superficial emotion" — bringing it closer to the meaning that it has for us today.
A snippet: "Some women have reported elevated feelings and enjoying sex more while on their periods, but period sex can also result in some sticky situations".
Almost all three-quarter-face photos are ascensional, the face is lifted toward a supernatural light, which draws it up and elevates it to the realm of a higher humanity; the candidate reaches the Olympus of elevated feelings, where all political contradictions are solved".
Thus, their children tended to be diagnosed at an older age than children of English-speakers resulting in elevated feelings of fear, helplessness and guilt.
I have three brief suggestions: First of all, when we express our hate, we do not have to imply that this expression necessarily represents our most elevated feelings.
Some writers sought to provoke ever more "elevated" feelings in their readers: Victorian sentimentalists wrote tear-inducing scenes, often centered on the death of a child, in an effort to inspire social and political reform.
In these pictures of Richter's work at the cathedral and of other silent sites of worship — temples of modern art, mostly — it's not the scenes of saints and martyrs that necessarily stir elevated feelings.
According to Dr. Lawrence Kirmayer's study on immigrant mental/emotional health, resettlement can initially bring elevated feelings of hope and optimism.
6 The diagnosis of diabetes is a life-threatening stressor that demands high mental and physical accommodations due to elevated feelings of fear.
