The production is governed by sentiment, not sentimentality, by the holiness of the heart's affections and a warmth too precious to cast lightly aside.
But even if this partly reflects evolved psychological mechanisms or 'modules' governing social sentiments and responses, much of it may also be the result of human intelligence grasping (under varying cultural conditions) genuine morally relevant distinctions or facts—such as the difference between the normative force that attends harm and that which attends mere violations of convention.
"You can't govern on sentiment," he told the ABC.
At Little, Brown, Alfred McIntyre's judgment of a manuscript was governed by sentiment.
If we ask Muslim minorities in Myanmar and Sri Lanka or austerity protesters in Greece and Spain for their input on specific policies, would that help reduce anti-government sentiment and so help leaders to govern?
Psychological communities, or communities of face-to-face personal interaction governed by sentiments of trust, co-operation, and altruism.
Such communities, based on face-to-face interaction, are governed by sentiments of trust, cooperation, and altruism in the sense that constituent members have the good of the community in mind and act on behalf of the communitys interest.
From this starting point Cooper goes on to describe sentiment as "ephemeral", "shifting", and "unreliable", and furthermore that "color prejudice or race prejudice is mere sentiment governed by the association of ideas" (VAJC, 162).
Congress oversees Social Security and is itself governed by political sentiment.
Presenting race prejudice as sentiment governed by the association of ideas, Cooper explains that it is "impervious to reason" and "cannot be annihilated by rhetoric" (VAJC, 163).
