Hume's sensible knave knows what virtue requires but does not care, because he lacks the sentiment of benevolence that normally counteracts self interest.
Five years later, in Schnitzler's first theatrical success, "Anatol," the eponymous dandy echoed this sentiment — or, rather, lack of sentiment — adding a glaze of nostalgia in the process: There I was at the piano.
"It indicated," he says, "the most dreadful lack of emotion, lack of sentiment, lack of true feeling.
CLEVELAND — If this was goodbye, it lacked any sentiment, affinity or warmth.
If Sheila, widow of John Peel, intends to complete his unfinished memoirs, she had better be warned: where large advances are involved, publishers can be brutally lacking in sentiment.
They are structural undertakers, which may explain why Mark, when confronted with the spectacle of the crippled buildings, lacked the sentiment that builders feel for their creations — that innate sympathy which helped blind the engineers of the World Trade towers to the reality of what was about to occur.
Perhaps the circumstances are too familiar, or the situation lacks complexity; perhaps the sentiment itself is overstated.
Jay Z had dedicated "Young Forever" to Martin during his summer tour, leading some critics to claim that Monday's sentiment lacked depth.
Thomas is not suggesting that all children who come from abusive homes will lack other-regarding sentiments and become evil persons, but instead is saying that other-regarding sentiments have a more difficult time gaining a secure foothold in children in abusive homes than in loving ones (p. 281).
The lack of sentiment and the love of language are what's new in his work.
