12. Avoid poetry, dramatic representations (except comedy), music, serious novels, melancholy, sentimental people, and everything likely to excite feeling or emotion, not ending in active benevolence.
Potamkin devoted careful study to the representation of African-Americans in movies (as in the 1929 article "The Aframerican Cinema"), and he criticized Hollywood's representations over all, whether falsely contemptuous or falsely sentimental: "Laborer, Negro, Jew, foreigner generally, become butts or objects of a quasi-pathos".
It is unclear to me what kinds of representations of suffering can always escape condemnation as sentimental, or manipulative, or "suffering porn".
The question of abstraction versus representation does not raise much dust today; but, alas, Mr. Barnet's representational work has become sweeter and more sentimental as the years have passed.
In peformance, the music had a kind of Pop Art quality: like Andy Warhol's Elvises and Marilyns, this Jobim music was a stark representation of a national iconography, and it was at once chilly and intensely sentimental.
Text representations is a key task for many natural language processing applications such as document classification, ranking, sentimental analysis and so on.
Instead of a holographic representation of the feminist will to power, Beyoncé appears as real flesh and blood – fallible, sentimental and ruled by contradictory impulses.
Investors are less sentimental.
