I am struck by the one quality his voice lacks: Sentimentality.
That doesn't mean they lack sentimentality: last year they chose Tom Hooper for "The King's Speech" over Mr. Fincher and "The Social Network".
While my response might have lacked sentimentality ("You two are such fucking hippies") I was sincerely glad that my friends had not only gotten me something that didn't make me feel like a wasteful asshat, but they'd done something on my behalf that made me feel better about me - even better, to a narcissist.
"The movie is completely lacking in sentimentality," Ed Harris, who plays an enigmatic American escapee known only as Mr. Smith, said from Southern California.
The new film may lack the sentimentality of its predecessor (with its scenes of James Franco's scientist doting on Caesar when he was a cuddly young chimp) but it anthropomorphises the apes even more.
His "Edelweiss" was passable but utterly lacking in the sentimentality the song demands.
The big-time comedian is both very cynical and very busy, lacking precisely the sentimentality (even if false — listen to Eric Bana's absurd homilies) and availability (listen to his mea culpas) that make for a proper family man.
But lack of sentimentality doesn't mean lack of caring and even generosity to those who have shown loyalty to a company.
"His lack of sentimentality is sometimes confused with lack of feeling".
Specifically, the Coldheartedness scale (C) of the PPI-R reflects a propensity toward callousness, guiltlessness, and lack of sentimentality, and is related to a lack of affective empathy.
Judges said it was "a perfect memoir of old age – candid, detailed, charming, totally lacking in self-pity or sentimentality and above all, beautifully, beautifully written".
