Mary Rodgers - the composer's daughter, who polices all interpretations of work by two men she stills calls 'Daddy and Ockie' - praised the television version for being so 'contemporary and new', but American critics deplored the show's fuzzy sentimental solutions to the problems it toyed with.
Over the course of its nine seasons, the original series also skewed sentimental, dealing with the problems facing a working mother and two savvy adolescents in the Ford, Carter, and Reagan eras.
(P) The effort control problem for sentimental dynamics: Assume feeling evolution given by Eq. (1), a utility structure as described in A3, initial feeling level x 0) = x0≫1, and denote the impatience factor by ρ>0.
This generally accepted fact allows us to model sentimental relationships as a control problem, with energy in the form of effort playing the role of the control variable.
Nongreenies may call it an expensive resolution to an invisible problem; not everybody is sentimental about the way light refracts in a meadow.
So it's a practical problem, not just a sentimental one.
This is not, thankfully, something to idealise or be sentimental about – it speaks of a common problem, demanding common action.
Call me sentimental, but solving the human-on-Mars problem is a lot more exciting than solving the challenge of scrubbing carbon from smokestacks–or fixing health care.
Splick is also accused of being misogynistic, and it's a problem — given the film's overall sentimental tone — that it feels true.
"The problem, argues Die Weltwoche, "is not sentimental, but political".
