But in the best stories, a conjunction of zaniness, horror and sentiment propels you beyond disbelief into the space inhabited by good comic books, or by authors such as Rabelais and Burroughs.
His fantastical, whimsical stories, blending horror, humour and sentiment – instantly recognisable in style – appealed to editors and readers across the board.
But the song's hopeful sentiments quickly gave way to horror imagery.
The spontaneous appearance of the stars and stripes was a statement of shared grief, horror, sorrow and anger -- sentiments that pretty much crossed political lines.
What she saw was a world that refused to make room for the severely disabled, one that looked at people like her — if it looked at them at all — with horror, hostility, condescension and pity, a sentiment she hated.
Such artists invest even the hollow vessels of lost faith and discarded fealties with a newly full measure of passion that both enfolds and transcends the treasure and the horror of memory, the sweetness and the delusion of sentiment.
The horror of that image has done more than move public sentiment.
Inspired by Ian Mahar's Kotaku article Nobody Wins When Horror Games Stigmatize Mental Illness, that challenged the themes and sentiment of horror game Outlast, Morris quickly set about planning a game jam that'd take Mahar's ideas one step further.
It's a thoroughly modern movie with elements of silent film, a love story shot with horror-film techniques, and a charming blend of style and sentiment.
The horror of the war seemed to create in this generation a distaste for sentiment, a need to discard the past, and an urge to create utopias of sound.
