It seems to leave us prey to an empty moral relativism in which our deepest moral sentiments are reduced to transient social constructions.
I think it dilutes true sentiment and reduces powerful, sacred things in life to dumb generalities," she explained.
About the only thing the system can do is so-called sentiment analysis, reducing a review to a thumbs-up or thumbs-down judgment.
Some City economists predict that with consumer confidence battered and businesses nervous about spending and hiring, the Bank will want to shore up sentiment by reducing interest rates further from a record low of 0.5%.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld acknowledged the growing sentiment for reducing the 130,000 American troops in Iraq in a speech on Thursday at the National Press Club, but reiterated that any further reductions depend on improvements in conditions in Iraq.
Jonathan Holslag says that although it is only "25% real, it plays up nationalist sentiment and reduces the scope for making compromises".
When expressed, such sentiments are often reduced to gripes about immigration and the EU.
Objects themselves are on the move, all property mobilised by money, and all value reduced to sentiment and caprice, like Abel's aunt's secret "treasure" of invalid Lombard Street bills, Kossuth-era banknotes and worthless lottery tickets.
The US State Department said Nimr's execution "risks exacerbating sectarian tensions at a time when they urgently need to be reduced," a sentiment echoed by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.
The U.S. State Department said Nimr's execution "risks exacerbating sectarian tensions at a time when they urgently need to be reduced". The sentiment was echoed almost verbatim by EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and an official at the German Foreign Ministry.
