It seems to have liberated this year's panel to shed sentimental concerns and focus on the very best book of the year, rather than viewing the prize as a lifetime achievement award, evident in the absence of eternal bridesmaid Beryl Bainbridge from the short list.
Only a few of his sentimental poems concerned serious subjects.
The risks inherent in making fiction out of the encounter between privileged Europeans and powerless dark-skinned non-Europeans are immense: earnestness without rigor, the mere confirmation of the right kind of political "concern," sentimental didacticism.
By Richard Brody June 5, 2015 "Spy" is a sentimental comedy, more concerned with having Melissa McCarthy play a likable, relatable character than with tapping her true comedic genius.
This sentimental, unfunny movie concerns the competition between three "birders" who spend the year and thousands of dollars travelling from Maine to the Aleutians to become champion bird spotters.
"Why would I want those?" Even during the trauma of catastrophe, though usually after paying heed to things with more sentimental value, people seem concerned about their financial responsibilities.
Like "Up," Turan says, Docter's latest movie "manages to be honest and unafraid but never cheaply sentimental where emotion is concerned, evoking a largeness of spirit whose ability to be moving sneaks up and takes us by surprise".
Like that film, "Inside Out" manages to be honest and unafraid but never cheaply sentimental where emotion is concerned, evoking a largeness of spirit whose ability to be moving sneaks up and takes us by surprise.
Karl Rove, not exactly the world's most sentimental man, has voiced his concern over the Arizona law.
