| 单词 | sentimentalist |
| 例句 | He was afraid I would paint him as a sentimentalist or, worse, some spineless ally of the Cuban government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Tiny's the gay one, but I'm the sentimentalist. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z In turn, those defending the free market in feathers ridiculed all conservationists as effeminate sentimentalists. The Long History of Those Who Fought to Save the Animals 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z Some writers sought to provoke ever more “elevated” feelings in their readers: Victorian sentimentalists wrote tear-inducing scenes, often centered on the death of a child, in an effort to inspire social and political reform. The Meaning of Writerly Tears 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Something like the Olympics — call me a rank sentimentalist — but I think these things matter. Hugh Laurie is back as a TV doctor in Hulu's dark 'Chance' 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Though no sentimentalist, Mr. Lagerfeld is aware of that, and he would probably break down “us” as the circle of friends and colleagues around him. Fashion Review: The Stage Is Big, and Lagerfeld Fills It 2010-10-05T22:56:00Z This is not exactly the art-commerce divide that sentimentalists of cinema invoke in a vain effort to distinguish aesthetic ambition from mercenary zeal. Film: In Line at the Movies, Hoping for Good Enough 2010-11-20T19:14:00Z He is uncompromising in matters of taste, ethics and English usage, as well as a wet-eyed sentimentalist and a man who likes to have a good time. ‘Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery’ Review: Another Clue for You All 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z But Monkhouse was no sentimentalist: he shows Mary's working-class father to be more than happy for her to live off the Timbrells' money. Mary Broome ? review 2011-03-21T18:27:12Z The former saw him as an opportunist; the latter took him for a sentimentalist. Can a high-end boutique prosper in Detroit? John Varvatos has a vision. 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z He’s a dry-eyed sentimentalist, gentle in his mockery and disinclined to designate villains. ‘Fatherhood’ Review: He Lost His Wife. Go Easy on Him. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z "Because you're an old sentimentalist," says Bernard Cribbins, who played Perks, the station porter, and is now an astonishingly frisky 81. The Railway Children: Forever Young 2010-03-21T22:00:00Z Maybe I’m a sentimentalist, but I think that certain geographies call out for certain architecture. Kelsey Grammer 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z The house, in general, felt like a grandparent’s house occupied by an eccentric younger sentimentalist. Salinger’s House, Artist’s Retreat 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But for the sentimentalists in the crowd, her wrap dress, which helped define the zeitgeist of the ’70s, uncorked a geyser of associations. The Diane von Furstenberg Wrap Dress Remains a Fashion Statement 2014-01-15T20:23:45Z This may rattle the Chanterelle sentimentalists, but it seems to have liberated Mr. Waltuck. Restaurant Review: Élan in the Flatiron District 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z He’s that rarity, a smart sentimentalist whose self-consciousness about his feelings in no way dilutes them. Review: ‘Preludes’ Shows Rachmaninoff Failed by His Muse and Killing Time 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z As a novelist, Smith, who died in 1972, was never a sentimentalist. Review | ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ was a classic. Does Betty Smith’s follow-up warrant reconsideration? 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z I'm an awful sentimentalist so it's a natural fit. Six Songs of Me: Barry from Barrygruff 2012-08-30T08:19:21Z This was not the case in those films that earned him a reputation as a sentimentalist. Robin Williams obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The angry son, the good friend, the bad husband, the quarreler, the sentimentalist, the secret lover, the despairing father.” Books of The Times: ?Charles Dickens,? by Claire Tomalin; ?Becoming Dickens? - 2011-10-24T22:30:07Z In setting up camp in their intersection, Ms. Kennedy remains one the harshest — and most invaluable — of the American theater’s conflicted sentimentalists. Review: ‘He Brought Her Heart Back,’ Adrienne Kennedy’s Beautiful Nightmare 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z Recently, she upset sentimentalists by putting The Post’s 15th Street headquarters up for sale. Katharine Weymouth Takes Charge at the Washington Post 2013-08-02T20:48:16Z As he does with the other actors, Seiden ably steers Rathnam and McIntosh to the kind of tender resolution that appeals to the cheesy sentimentalist in all of us. It’s spring in the hearts of the characters of ‘Summer’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z I am a sentimentalist and am prejudice when it comes to the sandhills of Nebraska. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z As the movie depicts him, Blaze, a witty sentimentalist with a bottomless baritone, was an enthusiast when it came to love, liquor and weed. Review: Ethan Hawke’s ‘Blaze’ Revisits a Country-Music Legend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z And it reminds us that despite their reputations as robust sentimentalists, Rodgers and Hammerstein created deeply divided characters, with songs that shivered even as they soared. Review: ‘Oklahoma!’ Preserves a Classic While Adding Punch 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z But then Herzog was a chump, a failed intellectual and at bottom a sentimentalist. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z Akhtar is a realist, not a sentimentalist, and he is not prone to oversimplification in limning the differences between strands of American influence and strands of Pakistani Muslim response. Review | ‘Invisible Hand’ a taut political thriller worthy of ‘Homeland’ watchers 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z “The director is not a sentimentalist,” he said. Baryshnikov in the Tragic Love Story ?In Paris? 2011-09-14T13:58:08Z The man was always a sentimentalist at heart, and while that doesn’t necessarily weaken his film, its successors would advance this strain of satire by going all in on irony. From Charlie Chaplin to Jojo Rabbit: an unlikely history of Nazi comedies 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Kelly well understands that childhood innocence is neither as sweet nor as simple as sentimentalists would like to believe. Review: A Wondrous ‘Pinocchio’ With That ‘Lion King’ Magic 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z “In plain truth, I’m a little dumb about the work, because it doesn’t hold me at all. But it’s the uniformly flat-footed and sentimentalist uses of Jacob Lawrence to which I object most strenuously.” Darby English Joins MoMA as Consulting Curator 2014-04-02T12:00:16Z In short, he’s a profound sentimentalist who doesn’t distinguish action from feeling, power from passion, but finds the weight of the world and the motor of humanity in the power of passion itself. Max Ophüls’s Unheralded Masterwork “The Tender Enemy” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z And there’s Saint Ricky, the sentimentalist sad clown, who favors pathos and big emotional windups set to Cat Stevens. Review: Ricky Gervais’s ‘After Life’ Is the Tearjerking of a Clown 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z One thing the new/old and often outspoken Dodgers reliever is not: a sentimentalist. Dodgers' Joe Kelly doesn't want your sympathy. He just wants to get you out 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Sergei Rachmaninoff is a popular composer, but many classical music experts dismiss him as a sentimentalist who leaned into nostalgia. The Power and Limits of Abortion Politics 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z He might appeal to the sentimentalists after his two spells as a player at Everton but has no managerial experience at the highest level. Bielsa? Dyche? Rooney? Who next for Everton? 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “What you are left with is a characterization of the queen as a rather selfish, introverted sentimentalist who is sort of losing the plot,” he said. King Charles III wants to look ahead. ‘The Crown’ drags him back. 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z “He will be a different sort of monarch. Charles is a deep thinker, romantic, sentimentalist,” said Robert Hardman, a royal biographer, author of “Queen of Our Times.” What kind of monarch will King Charles III be? Different from his mum. 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z “I’m a sentimentalist at heart. When people give me something, I hold on to it, I’ve kind of always been like that,” Tarantino said Wednesday evening. How much is Zuckerberg worth? Card collector could find out 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z "We are dealing with a director who until that point, despite Schindler's List, was seen as a bit of a sentimentalist," he says, Tom Hanks learned Saving Private Ryan lines from helmet on Irish beach 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The sentimentalists looked toward the only filly in the race, Nest. Mo Donegal wins the Belmont Stakes; Rich Strike finishes off the pace 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z The man who made “E.T.,” the sentimentalist to whom we once flocked for emotional sensation, now can’t lure us out of our homes. The Power of a Good Cry 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z “I’m quite sensitive as well, and given that, oftentimes my relationships are quite intense. I love to love, and being a sentimentalist myself, I like this idea of objects having meaning in people’s lives.” Geraldine Viswanathan never expected rom-com stardom. Then came 'Broken Hearts Gallery' 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z As some of us tried to say in the 1990s and 2000s, the gap between the sacred and the profane was never as wide as religious sentimentalists and liberal multiculturalists believed. Why do Muslim states stay silent over China’s abuse of the Uighurs? | Nick Cohen 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z This one focuses on Simon, a spunky redheaded musician who is no weepy sentimentalist. The 20 books to read this summer 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z She is not a sentimentalist or a cradler of her pain. She thought her past was painful; then Stephanie Danler wrote about it 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z “I’m not a sentimentalist — I’m a dedicated fatalist — but I do feel I was very lucky,” he told People magazine. Peter Beard, uninhibited artist and wildlife photographer, dies at 82 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z An unabashed sentimentalist, she wore it for Monday’s photo. A picture of holiday cheer: Bainbridge Island family’s half-century Christmas tradition thrives. 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z As a writer, he’s a sentimentalist at heart, which is what makes his comedies, for all their low humor and violence, basically old-fashioned. The misunderstood humor of Danny McBride 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z Intellectuals dismissed him as a clever sketch-writer and sentimentalist with a lucrative genius for giving the audience what it wanted. Neil Simon: How the playwright wrote his own second act and finally won over critics 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Both men, at heart, were sentimentalists who often better reflected how America saw itself than how it actually was. Four Freedoms at 75: Norman Rockwell's paintings come to life again 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z When he bypassed the World Trade Organization last week to slap tariffs on some $60 billion in Chinese imports, Mr. Trump reinforced his scorn for multilateralism as the province of weak-kneed sentimentalists. The Post-World War II Order Is Under Assault From the Powers That Built It 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z Spielberg is routinely derided as a button-pushing sentimentalist, a purveyor of rank emotional manipulation. Ridley Scott's 'All the Money in the World' and Steven Spielberg's 'The Post' offer a revealing study in directorial contrasts 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z “Webb didn’t need people to show the presence of life,” Mr. Okrent writes in this feast for historians and sentimentalists. A Holiday Gift Guide for Hardcover Fans 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z “I’m such a sentimentalist that I saved that shirt.” Novak Djokovic, Gwyneth Paltrow celebrate Lacoste’s reopening in Beverly Hills 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z It’s fair to say that Tegmark, a physicist by training, is not a biological sentimentalist. Max Tegmark: ‘Machines taking control doesn’t have to be a bad thing’ 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z Over the course of the drama, the townspeople justify their decision to “go rhino” by declaring that “humanism is dead, those who follow it are just old sentimentalists”. How a tax haven is leading the race to privatise space 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z He was attacked by highbrow critics as a sentimentalist and as a sell-out for taking advertising jobs. Why everybody liked Norman Rockwell 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Despite his campaigning for animals he insisted he was not a sentimentalist. Richard Adams: The man who turned a car story into a best-seller - BBC News 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z I’ll admit that, as a college basketball sentimentalist who grew up on Tobacco Road enthralled with Dean Smith’s North Carolina teams, this sort of explanation exerts a pull over me. What’s the Matter With College Basketball? 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Something like the Olympics - call me a rank sentimentalist - but I think these things matter. Hugh Laurie is back as a TV doctor in Hulu’s dark ‘Chance’ 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Clearly no sentimentalist, his answers to the above queries were: A Robot Monk Captivates China, Mixing Spirituality With Artificial Intelligence 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Hitchcock, not known to be a sentimentalist, wrote back that Truffaut's letter "brought tears to my eyes." 'Hitchcock/Truffaut' a revealing glimpse at filmmakers' summit 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z To engineer synthetic emotions for cheap effect is bad enough; even worse, Baldwin says, is the sentimentalist who believes her own schlock, confusing the imitation of emotion for emotion itself. Mary Gaitskill, Master of Desire 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Or is love just the sentimentalist’s word for sex? Why Love Lyrics Last 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z As her son Bill Yamanaka remarked, “The island girl, a sentimentalist, suddenly became very independent.” Woman to receive degree after a delay of decades 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Yoshizawa is no sentimentalist — before the disaster, he raised cows for slaughter. Defying Japan, Rancher Saves Fukushima’s Radioactive Cows 2014-01-12T03:53:33Z As an observer of the human scene Dickens wasn't the cosy sentimentalist to whom we were introduced at school, any more than he was just an angry protestor against Victorian injustice. Why Charles Dickens endures 2013-12-13T16:57:48Z “The wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart.” Mary Gaitskill, Master of Desire 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z The sentimentalist in me laments the lack of the personal touch conveyed by pen and ink. Touchnote - An App-Driven Postman For The Holiday Havoc 2012-12-17T17:46:22Z As usual, most of the cynics and miserablists turned out to be closet sentimentalists who went overboard in the opposite direction once they spotted they'd backed the wrong horse this time. London 2012: back to harsh realities after a triumphant Games 2012-08-13T12:53:45Z A Doomed Romance With a New Orleans Newspaper If it keeps on raining, levee’s going to break — “When the Levee Breaks,” Led Zeppelin Newsprint sentimentalists are part of a shrinking club. The Media Equation: The Times-Picayune, New Orleans and a Doomed Romance 2012-05-28T00:55:55Z Naturally La Mara, sentimentalist that she is, denies a liaison. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z These things are commonly thrown into the shade by those modern sentimentalists who delight in idealising the devotees of the past. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z It takes a cynic to be an idealist; the sentimentalist gets left at the first fence. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Sterne, on one side of his character, was a sentimentalist. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z I am no sentimentalist, as you very well know. A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z It looks as if I was a romantic sentimentalist. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Evidently the painter of this picture was a sentimentalist who regarded the recruiting sergeant in the worst light. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z Some of us are terribly afraid of being exposed as sentimentalists. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z She couldn't help falsifying facts, for she was an incurable sentimentalist. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z "Remember, I am no sentimentalist, and whatever may happen to you, I shall be compelled in the end to claim my bond." A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z In my country, we are no longer sentimentalists and I do not pretend to be humanitarian. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Hearn has been held up by the sentimentalists as a shining example of humanity's cruelty to great artists. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Some timid sentimentalists advised Compulsory restraint in woollen gloves, Or the deterrent aid of bitter aloes. Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch 2012-03-06T03:00:20.097Z No one has ever accused Chopin of lacking warmth; indeed, thanks to a total misconception of his music, he is tortured into a roaring tornado by sentimentalists and virtuosi. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z If Kautsky were a mere sentimentalist and yet a revolutionist he could shed tears over the unwillingness of the bourgeoisie to give up power without a struggle. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z The solitary incident of note in this period of his life is the ridiculous quarrel with Rousseau, which throws much light upon the character of the great sentimentalist. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z These last have yielded little to the sentimentalists in real looking forward. The Romance of a Great Store 2012-02-20T03:00:21.577Z Professor Huxley made merry over the sentimentalists who picture the simple dignity of primitive man. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z "But don't be quite so grumpy, just because I called you a sentimentalist." Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Rousseau and the sentimentalists, who talk of the savage, greatly err in their estimate of that noble individual. Pictures of Canadian Life A Record of Actual Experiences 2012-02-14T03:00:28.520Z A sentimentalist would tint the truth while I would rather view it in its natural color, be it dun or even black. Bolanyo 2012-02-12T03:00:14.503Z The reason of this is that Confucius was not simply a sentimentalist. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Not, indeed, a soft, baby-faced, puling sentimentalist; but a lofty, iron-hearted man, who "never feared the face of clay," and did God's will, in spite of devils, popes, and kings. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z And being supersensitive on this point, she had hurled "sentimentalist" in his face. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z A sentimentalist said: "A lost child in a city street." Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Is any sickly sentimentalist shocked at these recitals? Slavery and the Constitution 2012-02-01T03:00:13.957Z That's why the sentimentalists do so much harm in public affairs. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z For, being a sentimentalist, she lived in a false world, on the borders of a lie, never quite telling it perhaps, and certainly never quite not telling it. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z It is the sentimentalist who sees only gloom and the weariness of departure now. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Police are for sentimentalists and cowards and men of slothful ease. The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z Anyhow, I am an idealist—a sentimentalist, if you like. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z There was a row at home—I was a sentimentalist then and just eighteen—and as the result of it I came out to Canada.” The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z Wilbraham had not erred when he described her as a sentimentalist with grievances. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z She was a strong, healthy young woman, not a puling sentimentalist afflicted with 'nerves.' The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z It is irrational, therefore, to take any measures for perpetuating the existing European order, since only a sentimentalist can set any value on its maintenance.... The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage 2012-01-11T03:00:19.077Z The boy is a born sentimentalist, like his father before him. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z The fool pursues Ambition, and the sentimentalist his Ideal... Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z Let us beware of it, for it is often speciously put forward, and sounds beautiful and charitable in the mouth of poets, novelists, sentimentalists, and tender-hearted women. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z Being pure men of business, and not sentimentalists, they do not wish to find themselves mixed up with any emotions consequent upon the encounter of the sublime and beautiful. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z Never a sentimentalist, he felt it his duty to put all the questions he had to discuss on a purely practical basis, neglecting every other consideration. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z He admitted that he was perhaps a romantic sentimentalist and his adventure did not harmonize with his occupation. Northwest! 2011-11-22T03:00:09.880Z This world is built for the practical, not for the sentimentalist. Grit Lawless 2011-12-01T03:00:18.137Z The main feature of the matured Heloise is sanity and balanced womanhood; she was too strong and intense to be a sentimentalist. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z But we have not learned his saving hatred of the sentimentalist. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z But though so ardent a follower of the doctrine that ideas lead the world, Johnson was not induced to go all lengths with the sentimentalists. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Ye gods, how these sentimentalists go to pieces under the influence of a bit of a girl! The Sins of the Children A Novel 2011-10-09T02:00:27.520Z I am no nature sentimentalist, and in spite of moments of weakness, I will without hesitation shoot a bird as she sits upon her eggs, if I can thereby acquire desired information. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Ulrich rode in disguise, prompted by the sentimentalist's self-consciousness, always delighted in attracting attention and making himself talked of. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Perhaps, for our purposes, it will serve merely to say that the sentimentalist is always, in one way or another, disloyal to facts. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z But the Christian Gospel is little disposed to waive its imperious claims from fear of the metaphysician or the sentimentalist. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z And, despite what sentimentalists may say, self-preservation is the first law of nature. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z The sentimentalist who shudders at the cat and gallows forgets the worse, slow, hidden horrors that pass unseen in the felon's brain. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z I am not a sentimentalist by any means, yet I abominate wanton cruelty. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z You cannot have your cake and eat it too; but the sentimentalist blindly refuses to accept that. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z But the position out here was impossible, as any one who wasn’t a sentimentalist would acknowledge. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z "What a sentimentalist!" he repeated, a while later, musingly. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Travelling sentimentalists may meditate over its grandiose inscription of James III., English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z This is the tendency of the sentimentalist, who refuses to be bound by the actual conditions. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z Carefully select the courses that will be most helpful to you in your career, and don't be side-tracked by any of what we sentimentalists term "culture studies." Increasing Personal Efficiency 2011-07-31T02:00:10.480Z Still more, the case of him who can meet neither as sentimentalist nor idealist, or, rather, not at all in a human way. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z Throckmorton, in spite of a certain firmness that was almost hardness, was at heart a sentimentalist. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z The sixteenth century would have had little sympathy with the sentimentalists who hold that womanhood in itself is a burden so heavy that all active occupations should be forbidden to the married woman. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z Sham feelings and moral facts are the staple of the sentimentalist and the cause of his inevitable decay. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z But there is not a greater or more wicked waste of valuable time than the time spent upon what some sentimentalists term culture study. Increasing Personal Efficiency 2011-07-31T02:00:10.480Z He has none of the faults of the brooder, the sentimentalist, or the man of principle; his nature tends to splendid action and lusty enjoyment. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z The Germans are sentimentalists, it must be confessed. Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z But then I am old-fashioned, and perhaps, in spite of the strenuous life I have led, I am a sentimentalist,—and sentiment is scorned as silly in these days. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z As to his mother—hear this, ye sentimentalists who say pretty things p. 283about a mother’s love!—she deserted the boy, and left him to shift for himself. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z At any rate the eviction of these western Acadians has never aroused the sympathies of the poet and sentimentalist as did that of the Acadians of the East. Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes 2011-06-13T02:00:27.317Z The poor, shattered, self-consumed sensualist and sentimentalist paid dear in the 226 agonies of his closing years for the indulgences of an unregulated life. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Summer may coddle and flatter, but cold weather is no sentimentalist. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z Are they fools, knaves, madmen, or mere sentimentalists?... From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z And so, in such a Romeo-like manner, does this bulky sentimentalist, armed with concealed weapons, have dalliance with the passing days. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z I am not a sentimentalist on this subject. The Law and the Poor 2011-05-07T02:00:30.390Z He may be pronounced second greatest in the succession of the literary sentimentalists of France. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z I wished to enter into discourse, but Phylax had a very poor opinion of me; at most he thought me a fickle sentimentalist who only portrays feelings. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z If Mrs. Browning aimed at any particular class it was perhaps at intellectual sentimentalists. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z The dim light fell on her face, showing the weariness and pity in it, and the man, though neither a sentimentalist nor imaginative, was filled with a deep respect. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z It is not for the rich, and not for sentimentalists, and not for Americans; but it is for poets and dreamers. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z The Georgians were forced to face a very serious question, the question of an Indian State, controlled chiefly by white adventurers and sentimentalists, within the legal limits of the Commonwealth. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z This was altogether an inadequate reason; but Mainward was a sentimentalist, and his life was a long record of choosing pretty camping places, irrespective of danger. Sanders of the River 2011-03-12T03:00:26.427Z Even in his rascality he was a thorough sentimentalist. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z They were none of them sentimentalists, and Jimmy felt that enough had been said. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Perhaps Mr. Raymond seems only a foolish sentimentalist, weeping because of the blight upon a young man's love-story; but then he had loved the young man's mother,—and in vain! The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z “But what of love?” wails the sentimentalist; “in your scheme Eugenics outweighs Cupid!” The Super Race: An American Problem 2011-03-01T03:00:46.193Z You, perhaps, may think less well of Ernest for finding consolation so readily, but you must remember that he never was a sentimentalist. Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z I should have mentioned that we had to drag away the youngest of these sentimentalists by main force—which rendered our safe descent somewhat marvelous under the circumstances. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z The moment a writer of either school insinuates a principle or sentiment of Despair, whether he be a dramatist or a sentimentalist, the author enters his earnest protest. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z Such unpractical sentimentalists are good for nothing in a matter of this kind. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z She had stopped writing in the middle of a sentence: "And, whether the sentimentalist—" She had flung down her pen impatiently. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z After all, Massachusetts and Colorado are far apart; and if propinquity is fate bearing, distance and separation are more destructive of sentimental illusions than the average sentimentalist admits. Miss Theodora A West End Story 2011-02-26T03:00:48.940Z Serious argument was always wasted upon this light-headed group of sentimentalists. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z Of the sentimentalists, Herr Mayor was the best specimen. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z The sentimentalist, being a creature of impulse, gets in the habit of obeying his impulses, good or bad, and is apt to find some difficulty at last in distinguishing between them. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z He could not tolerate blunderers and fools; he had no patience with reformers, nor with sentimentalists; and very little with Emin Pasha, whom he came to regard as possessing the "mushy" qualities. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z He was a sentimentalist and to him a woman’s whole existence should be in her love, and in the home her lover could provide for her. Lola 2010-12-24T03:00:35.720Z And I'm enough of a sentimentalist to say that Ken Griffey Jr., of all people, should be given the benefit of every doubt. Griffey still deserves the benefit of the doubt 2010-04-27T22:10:00Z And all enjoyed themselves: those who cared for nothing as well as those who cared first to save their skin, sybarites as well as sentimentalists, the pompous as well as the dissipated. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z In this sense Bret Harte was a sentimentalist. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Well, then, if I must speak out, I would say that, in spite of all the hard discipline with which you have schooled yourself, you remain as rank and romantic a sentimentalist as ever. The Undying Past An idle man is always, to some extent, a poet; and a rogue makes often a good sentimentalist. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 They would be unworthy of you even if you belonged to that sickly order of sentimentalists who would shrink from killing a poisonous snake because the reptile had been given life. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 A sentimentalist is a man who sees an absurd value in everything and doesn't know the marked price of any single thing. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Nevertheless, with all his virility, it must be admitted that his nature was that of a sentimentalist. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z I was becoming the kind of man that every one should despise, a whining sentimentalist. The Man Who Rose Again No slops must be emptied here: and as Michael read the ascetic command above the tap on the stairs he wondered for a moment if he were, after all, a sentimentalist. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Powers, though no sentimentalist, possessed his due share of the affections, had an innate love for the beautiful, and a longing for a catholic and universal understanding of his fellows. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 And when Socialism has solved the problem of poverty, and Science solved the problem of disease, the area of the sentimentalists will be lessened, and the sympathy of man will be large, healthy, and spontaneous. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man Huntington is a sentimentalist, and he stamps my common-sense ideas as evidences of a commercial instinct. The Bachelors A Novel That's true, and yet—look here, Winfield, you are not one of these whining sentimentalists, and one can speak to you plainly. The Man Who Rose Again You got out of her life then: what the hell's your object in coming into it again now, as you call it, unless you're a sentimentalist? Sinister Street, vol. 2 Were I a sentimentalist, I should say that this showed its gratitude. The New Gulliver and Other Stories Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man We are called sentimentalists out in the East—at such times as we are not called money-getters. The Opium Monopoly They accuse me of being a weak sentimentalist, because I refuse to consider the redman in the light of a reptile. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop "The opinions of sentimentalists don't interest me one way or the other," Sylvia snapped. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The volume dealing with it—his first book—gives sufficient illustration of his practical powers to dissipate the absurd notion that he was a mere sentimentalist. The Vagabond in Literature Nor has any poet I have read of or heard of or met with been a sentimentalist. Per Amica Silentia Lunae I have laughed long at what I call sentiment, but I am more sentimental than the sentimentalist. The Day of His Youth Had not Amaldi himself once told her that he was not a sentimentalist? Shadows of Flames A Novel Oh, yes, you're a sentimentalist of the very worst—I don't know that I like you the less for it. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary None but the unreal sentimentalist really believes in it. The Vagabond in Literature He was not a sentimentalist, but a lump was forming in his throat when, at the very crest of the mountain, the girl turned suddenly in her saddle and stopped the gray. The Garden of Eden In ethics he holds a middle place between the unsparing hardness of the self-interest school and the somewhat gushing manner of the sentimentalists. A Short History of French Literature Protests were unavailing, and soon he ceased to protest, and told himself the horrid fact that he was a sentimentalist, perhaps even a poet. Bye-Ways Like most Englishmen he was at heart an eager sentimentalist and he was, just now, in a mood that responded instantly to anyone in distress. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary This was the very kind of person for Mr Simon Silky, who was a bit of a sentimentalist in his way. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 Only the sentimentalist waves out of sight considerations that are unpleasant to him. The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis The few dissentient voices in the chorus of eulogy have been those of eccentric crotcheteers like Rousseau, or sentimentalists like Lamartine. A Short History of French Literature She had no wish to pose as a sentimentalist. The Head Girl at the Gables In its early stages Margaret characterizes her correspondent as "a socialist by vocation, a sentimentalist by nature, and a Channing-ite from force of circumstance and of fashion." Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) The rhetorician would deceive his neighbours, The sentimentalist himself; while art Is but a vision of reality. The Wild Swans at Coole That the present century should permit sentimentalists to interfere with scientific investigations is preposterous. Vivisection But he wavered between the love of boys and women, seeking in both the satisfaction of emotional yearnings which in the modern world would have marked him as a sentimentalist. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion Gaspar de Vaca would have taken no interest in a sentimentalist. The Bright Shawl But Nature is no sentimentalist—does not cosset or pamper us. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse Women and men who indulged in these unbridled relations were sickly sentimentalists, as a rule, and were thrown out or ignored by all forceful society. The "Genius" He was not one of those pitiable sentimentalists who imagine that every petticoat, or at any rate every well-cut skirt, conceals a probable ideal. The Return of the Prodigal There is nothing morbid, nothing of the hater or the sentimentalist in his representations. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 Charles said to Andr�s, and the latter accused him of being a tender sentimentalist. The Bright Shawl The Consuls had shown themselves no slovens and no sentimentalists. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Otherwise one became much what he was now, a brooding sentimentalist—diseased in mind and body. The "Genius" Yes, my friends, the great God is the great sentimentalist, for he blesseth men and bestoweth his mercy upon them not because they are deserving, but because he loveth to be merciful. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy Paul was no sentimentalist, in the idle and common sense of the word. A Monk of Cruta When the last true story is written out, it has no favoring shadows for sentimentalists who feel more than they know. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas He was not a sentimentalist, but many times during his acquaintance with Potter he had felt a genuine pity for the man. The Coming of the Law He was like a tonic—a revivifying dynamo to this sickly overwrought sentimentalist. The "Genius" And the Son of God, like unto his Father, was also a sentimentalist. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy But answer me that: was she right when she left you her money to do this fool thing and give the world another kick down hill where the sentimentalists are sending it? Old Crow It shocked Victorian sentimentalists, and would probably infuriate the more austere feminists of to-day. Pot-Boilers In mercy silence with all speed That mouth there are no hands to feed; What cruel sentimentalist, O Jones, would doom thee to exist— Clinging to selfish Selfhood yet? Poems He would—he thought—never again be the maundering sentimentalist and enthusiast, imagining perfection in every beautiful woman that he saw. The "Genius" Verily, I say unto you, Christ was a sentimentalist of sentimentalists. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy Has the poick turned cynic, and the sickly sentimentalist become a materialist and a misogynist?” Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 The war-priest was not the figure that had led the band south after the battle; not the haughty, stately brave that the sentimentalist loves to picture. The Plow-Woman As a sentimentalist he had made as much love as he dared to a pretty married woman whose husband was absent, while she was manifestly flattered by his attentions. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 Like the great French sentimentalist with whom we have compared him, a suspicious distrust of all who came near him converted his social existence into a restless fever. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Verily, I say unto ye, the Lord God is the sentimentalist of sentimentalists! Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy The story is a good one, though it ends unhappily—another cause for complaint on the part of the sentimentalists who prefer molasses to meat. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The wrench left a scar which was long in healing; but as I am not a professional sentimentalist, I will not trouble you here with details of the symptoms. Miss Cayley's Adventures It was wild, heroic, and womanish-looking; and I felt I was prepared to hear he was a sentimentalist, and to see him weep. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) He was no sentimentalist, to pay himself with fine feelings whether for mean action or slack inaction. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) Your words are most reviving to my spirits; for in this age, when even the assassin is a sentimentalist, there is no virtue greater in my eyes than intellectual clarity. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) Señorita Diane, who was an incorrigible sentimentalist, went into ecstasies over the roses and at once whispered about the school that they were the fruit of an admirer, not of a mere relative. Clark's Field A sentimentalist would say, "I feel that our paths are beginning to part," but I will simply say that we're tired of each other.' Fathers and Children It is a sad pill for us sentimentalists that those who live by and on the sea have less sentiment than any others. An Ocean Tramp I'm no sentimentalist: only a bit tired by a hard afternoon's work and a rough ride home. The Unknown Quantity A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tales This first part, remarkable for its passionate, headlong impetuosity, should dispel any idea that Chopin was a weak sentimentalist. Music: An Art and a Language But the timid hearts of the earth never learn this; the sentimentalists and the poets do not understand it. Claim Number One The record of his trials, bodily and mental,265 enlists the romantic sympathy of the sentimentalist, and commands the serious attention of the philosopher. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Again, he has that all-saving touch of humour which enables him, sentimentalist as he is, to be an admirable comedian as well. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Am I getting to be something of a sentimentalist? The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains Rousseau, moreover, was more decidedly a sentimentalist than Cowper, if by sentimentalism we mean that disposition which makes a luxury of grief, and delights in poring over its own morbid emotions. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) If he had known it, he was acting like the sentimentalists whom he ridiculed, but he suffered from the egotist's fate, he did not recognize his own failing. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author There were many false sentimentalists of that day, who not unlike their modern brethren, wept many crocodile tears over the fate of the "poor Indian." The Land of the Miamis An Account of the Struggle to Secure Possession of the North-West from the End of the Revolution until 1812 Mr. Le Gallienne seems to us to belong to the sentimentalists, though we hope he will grow out of their category. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) “However, with all this cruel separation of tender hearts perhaps I am in a fair way to become a cynical old bachelor instead of a sentimentalist.” The Boy from Hollow Hut A Story of the Kentucky Mountains Joseph Andrews proves that Fielding was neither a child nor a sentimentalist, but that he had learnt to face facts as they are, and set a true value on the best elements of human life. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) The sentimentalist has proclaimed him a mere mocker. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 I’m an old sentimentalist, when you know me proper. At the Crossroads He is evidently half way between an idealist and a sentimentalist, with hardly an atom of practical sagacity or knowledge of affairs. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 Representative Marshall of Gloucester said that the Probate Judges were all opposed to it; that its advocates were "sentimentalists" and that "it would create strife, separation and divorce." The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI A mere sentimentalist might possibly have introduced it in such a way as to impress us at least with his own sincerity. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) He was above all things a sentimentalist, this son of a Genevan clockmaker. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 13 Lamartine is a man of fine genius and great courage, but both as an author and politician is a sentimentalist. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 There are sentimentalists who believe that the American home, that most sacred unit of society, is seriously imperiled by the tendencies of women to adopt new duties and interests. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The sentimentalist and rhapsodist in words and ideas is a dwindling factor at the present day, and a new presentation of fact is occasionally to be met with in the printed page. The Cathedrals of Northern France He is throughout a sentimentalist and a rhetorician. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) A sentimentalist, a man of heart, would quickly have it broken with the pity of it all. The Twins of Suffering Creek The pair were hardly more than children; and Brady, a sentimentalist of forty, with red hair, sighed as he peeped through the eaves and thought of his own dear girl at home. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas Let the sentimentalist and the muck-raker stay with their lecture circuits and the newspapers. College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College My child, I will not have you like any of these; you were made to enjoy life, and life to the young should mean––well, I am a sentimentalist. The Bondwoman He felt—he saw himself—a drivelling sentimentalist. Dr. Sevier As to that it may perhaps be pointed out to the extreme sentimentalists that, after all, Harry had been in love with the mother, as well as with the daughter, all along. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges The American sentimentalists strain to the utmost their soft brains, to find excuses for English treason. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 I do not think I am a sentimentalist, but the news we got this morning proves the Latin motto true. Partners of the Out-Trail I am not a sentimentalist, but a soldier. Louisiana Lou A Western Story The division between the priest and layman corresponds to his division between his 'sentimentalist' and his 'stern, cold man of common sense.' The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Richardson's sickening antipathy for Harry Fielding is quite as natural as the other's laughter and contempt at the sentimentalist. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges And on discovering that the chief was a sentimentalist at heart and a poet by nature, he had presented him with an inexpensively bound volume of his favorite author. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China You are something of a sentimentalist; I don't know if you are right or not. Partners of the Out-Trail Those devices of the satirist belonged to the sentimentalist mood of the Thackerayan epoch. Imaginary Interviews Robinson met him on July 10, 1811, and describes him as a 'pious sentimentalist and moralist,' who spoke of his prospects 'with more indifference than was perhaps right in a layman.' The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice But the rulers of Japan are not mere sentimentalists; they have to recognise facts, and recognising facts they have done what seems best to them under the circumstances. The Empire of the East Stirling would sooner have faced Sioux than sentimentalists, and he was fervently grateful to these savages for coming with him quietly without obliging him to shoot them. Red Men and White I’ve heard sentimentalists sing about the strength that lies in the soil. The Prairie Child Dogs are always taken as the supreme example of tameness, and sentimentalists have almost exhausted the resources of language in praising them. Introduction to the Science of Sociology In all my vexation, I could not help turning my eye upon the sentimentalist. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Speculatists and sentimentalists may talk as they please; but the destruction of that system is the first requisite to the regeneration of Italy. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge In such communities, the unmarried woman who becomes a mother, is an outcast from society—and though sentimentalists lament the hardship of the case, it is justly and necessarily so. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject What do you think?" he said, suddenly leaning towards the flames, "some of these blazing sentimentalists want to release our Huns. Tatterdemalion The sentimentalist and the elegant craftsman in words seem out of place in the company of this uncompromising seeker after realities, this relentless exposer of shams. Dante: His Times and His Work He is a sentimentalist turned man of action. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange It also meant an attack upon the President by those who still believed the South a menace, and those who cherished it as a political issue,—the "sentimentalists controlled by knaves," in Godkin's language. The New Nation A few philanthropic common places and rhetorical flourishes, "in the abstract," have secured them your "sweet voices," and your influence over the tribe of mawkish sentimentalists. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Most of our professional Hun-haters have found it a good stunt, or are merely weak sentimentalists; they can drop it easily enough when it ceases to be a good stunt, or a parrot's war-cry. Tatterdemalion He was no more a sentimentalist but now a roaring ranter. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel Sorrowfully I recalled the words of a forgotten sentimentalist: “It is on the deep pages of the heart that Youth writes indelibly its salutary to Cupid.” Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Vapid sentimentalists and timid souls deprecate these annual reunions, fearing they may arouse old strifes and sectional animosities. Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 But love is too good a word to be given over to the sentimentalists, although Mr. Shaw was perfectly right as to the way in which it has been misused. The New Theology "You dear old sentimentalist," he said; "do you really continue to believe in the faith of woman?" The Orchard of Tears Do not be a fool,— A sentimentalist, forever groping After the unattainable, the cloudy. The Woman Who Dared “I am sentimentalist enough to feel something like gratitude towards those who gave me my first opportunity.” A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories The vast majority of these sentimentalists rush into politics instead of studying them with deliberation, judgment and wisdom. The Cult of Incompetence The words "hypocrite," "humbug," "sentimentalist" spring readily to his lips. Appearances Being Notes of Travel So your common sentimentalist would think, and paint. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving He was a sentimentalist, he knew that now. The Wooden Horse He was often called cynical but that was not true—he was far too dispassionate, too little of a sentimentalist to be tempted by inverted sentimentalism. When Winter Comes to Main Street It is they, weaklings afraid to look life in the face, dotards and sentimentalists, who have made the body unclean. The Hero He had said himself that he was a sentimentalist, and when sentimentality is joined with scepticism there is often the devil to pay. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands It has long been the cry of sentimentalists that no living being should die in order that man might exist. Health on the Farm A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene So, with chin in hand and dark eyes lit by the flickering flame, this rou� and sentimentalist philosophized. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Would it help me in your esteem if I flung away all my hard-won philosophy and ranged myself with the sentimentalists of the day? The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance The sentimentalists, the cowards, and the cranks have broken the spirit of mankind. The Hero The sentimentalists may try to develop the 'native mind' as they please, but they will never persuade Hindoos or Mussulmans to trust their own countrymen as they trust us. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 Only the wildest sentimentalist could in seriousness urge that Maud would have made a good wife for the judge. Penguin Persons & Peppermints Some toothless old sentimentalist or other periodically sets up a melancholy howl for "the good old days of comic opera," whatever or whenever they were. The Merry-Go-Round The first are the sentimentalists; their brains are flaccid, lumpish like dough, and without grip on reality. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Who and where is the sentimentalist who arraigns us for descending to too sordid a level when we recognize our interest to hold what the discharge of duty has placed in our hand? Problems of Expansion As Considered In Papers and Addresses At the risk of being called a sentimentalist, I may say that I do not think I could kill famous people by any method that was not both quick and painless. Marge Askinforit She was before all things a sentimentalist, and she had the sentimentalist's monstrous innocence and boundless capacity for illusion. The Creators A Comedy Each little community would own a wit and a butt; the sentimentalist and the cynic. The Long Trick He was a sentimentalist, but obviously different in spirit from the two great English writers of sentiment who were most nearly his contemporaries. Washington Irving There is nothing in the rest of Considine's history that suggests the sentimentalist. The Tragic Bride It is easy to utter protests like these in the spirit of a mere sentimentalist; it is less easy to carry them out into practical effort, as Edward Denison resolved to do. Stray Studies from England and Italy The sentimentalists denounced luxury as leading to a decay of the population. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill He is a great dreamer is little Fage, like all sentimentalists.—This way, but look where you step; there are some awkward places.' The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Every idealist abuses his nerves, and every sentimentalist brutally abuses them. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays In many respects most Central and South African Negroes never really lose the primitive in them despite the claims of uplifters and sentimentalists. An African Adventure Always the sentimentalists, you experts in the past! The Defiant Agents He was no sentimentalist, but he believed that he possessed the finer quality. Black Oxen We must not sink into a pair of sentimentalists; these are terrible times. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 And they did not prove it, but like good sentimentalists they felt it. The Approach to Philosophy The portrayal of the situation which caused our early forefathers to rob birds’ nests and kill young animals will no doubt shock the sentimentalist who orders eggs or veal as a matter of course. The Tree-Dwellers This is not because he is a sentimentalist, but for the very opposite reason. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 As to the individual man, we have found Overbeck the poet and philosopher, the mystic, somewhat the sentimentalist, and, above all, the devout Catholic. Overbeck Rousseau the moralist is present to rebuke Rousseau the sentimentalist; yet the sentimentalist has his own persuasive power. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. There are no arm-chair sentimentalists to oppose this very practical consideration. Science and Morals and Other Essays Rousseau was a republican in his politics, as he was a sentimentalist in religion. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges Under the racking pressure, the sentimentalist fired volley upon volley of scathing ridicule into the massed ranks of anxious inquirers, and finally came to answering some of the choicest of the letters in print. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) The most flagrant mockery of love is sentimentality.—The sentimentalist is on hand wherever there is a chance either to mourn or to rejoice. Practical Ethics He travelled not as a student of life or as a romantic sentimentalist. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. He was rather a sentimentalist to whom study and practice had given an exceptional command of rhythm. American Men of Mind He was a savage sentimentalist who had his own decided views of his paternal prerogatives. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The most confirmed sentimentalist may have a saving sense of humor. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Alexander was a man of ideas, a sentimentalist, and a poseur, but he had an eye to the main chance. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry Jenny smiled the watery smile of the sentimentalist; a glass of still lemonade washed with limelight might resemble it. The Folly Of Eustace 1896 So do I. Eve would say that we were sentimentalists. Mistress Anne At the core, every woman is a sentimentalist. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale The poor, shattered, self-consumed sensualist and sentimentalist paid dear in the agonies of his closing years for the indulgences of an unregulated life. Classic French Course in English She had lived in woman’s world, and consequently, unlike the sentimentalists who were accepted authorities on the subject, she did not reason from an outside stand-point. Mary Wollstonecraft His sister Sarah was a sensible woman, she was far far from being a susceptible sentimentalist. Fair Harbor But I have never quite been able to see why a sentimentalist isn't quite as worthy of respect as a materialist—however, I am not here to argue that. Mistress Anne Misled by these, the sentimentalist may often sigh for an age that in a nearer view would be seen filled with cruelty and suffering. The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice Nor can thinkers, on either side, cavil at Europe's policy during that war; calculating, selfish and cruel as it may seem to the sentimentalist. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death In one sense he sometimes was a sentimentalist. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The clatter of an elevated train was with him the normal accompaniment of dawn, but the poetry of the pastoral—well, it didn't exist, that's all—except in "maudlin verses of lying sentimentalists." A Daughter of the Middle Border It must never be treated as if it were passion, or the slender threads of which it consists will snap, and ridicule will justly reveal the unbalanced judgment of the sentimentalist. Personality in Literature He was no sentimentalist: as what great artist in government has ever been? Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation She's a bit of a sentimentalist, and an exquisite flirt, but the most genuine little creature, too. Despair's Last Journey But if sentimentalism be held to mean something artificial or theatrical, then in the core and reality of his character Dickens was the very reverse of a sentimentalist. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens The old sentimentalist's eyes were moist, and her voice choked, as she concluded her legend. Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray Mr. Thurston's little boy is seen to be very good, and to the sentimentalist his mere goodness is "beautiful." Personality in Literature Lever will have none of that: his Irishman must be "a divil with the girls," although Lever is no sentimentalist, and does not talk of love matches among the Irish peasantry. Irish Books and Irish People So did Sydney Smith, who was very far from being a blubbering sentimentalist. My Contemporaries In Fiction And the iron-gray one, himself an inveterate sentimentalist, passed on, chuckling over his time-worn device for quickening romance in the heart of the young by the judicious interposition of obstacles. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage I ask you, I ask any person who has got such a thing as a clear brain and is not simply a mushy sentimentalist, is what I say true?” Possessed Benson, he, who had been formerly a scholar and a friend of literature, became merely a sentimentalist. Personality in Literature Oh, I'm not the sentimentalist I was six months ago. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance He shook off his vapours vexatiously, and, as he had done on the first night of Count Victor's coming, he went to his curious orisons at the door—the orisons of the sentimentalist, the home-lover. Doom Castle The talk and the music strongly appeal to robust minds, and at the same time do not repel the sentimentalist. The Bibliotaph and Other People This is the Shakespearian description of that Anthony, whom the modern British public, with its new critical lights, calls a "sentimentalist and speculator!" On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature He is no morbid sentimentalist, he is cherishing no unwholesome longing, he is not weary of work, he indulges in no hysterical raptures of desire. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Wesley was far too masculine and sensible to be a sentimentalist; his emotions impel him to vigorous action; and are much too serious to be cultivated for their own sakes or to be treated aesthetically. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century Rot!" snorts J. Q. "These are all the mushy theories of sentimentalists. Shorty McCabe on the Job There is no disguising it, however much the admission may damage him in the eyes of that same orthodox sentimentalist. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House They are not sentimentalists, but shrewd men of affairs who have met to plan a campaign for the common welfare. By the Christmas Fire He was indeed, a man of reason, no romancer, sentimentalist or dreamer, in spite of the fact that his main interests were with the muses. Memories and Studies But the general sense that something is not in order in the general state of things, without as yet any definite aim for the vague discontent, was shared by the true sentimentalist. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The worst rioters 'come the greatest sentimentalists, and repents most when they gets locked up—does! An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith From the orthodox sentimentalist he could claim no compassion. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House Always a sentimentalist, Robespierre was from boyhood a devout enthusiast for the great high priest of the sentimental tribe. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre Your true sentimentalist invariably gives the preference to scenes over persons, and is so often rewarded by the fidelity with which they respond to his eager expectations. The Romance of an Old Fool It is his moral purpose, his insistence upon the edifying point of view, his singular fertility in finding illustrations for his doctrines, which makes him a sentimentalist. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century But his character was essentially crafty and selfish, like that of many other sentimentalists of the first order.” Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work The appearance of the phrase coincides with the appearance of the thing; for Richardson was the first sentimentalist. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) He's a critic who pretends to despise everything because he's really a sentimentalist and afraid somebody'll find it out. Gigolo And never is there the faintest hint of the sentimentalist about him; his is never the softness of the lover, but rather the careful prudence of the utilitarian. White Ashes The sentimentalist does not weep because painful thoughts are forced upon him but because he finds weeping pleasant in itself. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century In one of their walks they met the philosopher and sentimentalist, Jean Jacques Rousseau. Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work Think what a nauseating crew of sentimentalists we should be, 'If all had love, as every nest hath eggs, And every head of maize her feathery cap.' The Great Amulet During their medical studies they were continually imbued with the idea that the opposition to laboratory freedom of experimentation was an agitation of comparatively recent date, and confined to a small class of unthinking sentimentalists. An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals Already it was clear that Lord Ashley was no mere sentimentalist out for a momentary sensation. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies Their triumph over the sentimentalists Kelly and Cumberland showed, as Johnson put it, that they could fill the aim of the comedian, namely, making an audience merry. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century The cry had been raised to save the splendid pile, and the counter-cry by the purists, the sentimentalists, whatever they were, to save it from being saved. The Tragic Muse There is an element of unmercifulness in the candour of La Rochefoucauld which is distressing to sentimentalists. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Your sentimentalists, indeed, might pronounce it an uninteresting view. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag And it is in the spirit of the broadest humanity—a spirit that marks him off from the sentimentalists of the Darmstadt circle—that he regards the "ruins of time." The Youth of Goethe Young and Hervey are religious sentimentalists, who have also an eye to literary elegance. English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century A game of gallantry in which the natural parts are inverted, and the gentleman acts the sentimentalist to the lady's performance of the shrewd cynic, is likely to have awkward results. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series It is the custom of sentimentalists sometimes to talk as if the North American Indian had been killed off by the white man. Applied Eugenics He was no dreamer, no idealist, no sentimentalist. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 When an Irish member holds up the whole business of the House of Commons by talking of his bleeding country for five or six hours, the simple English members suppose that he is a sentimentalist. George Bernard Shaw The exquisite and the sentimentalist were the fashion, to be speedily followed, according to the law of reaction, by the boor and the satirist. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters The Patient Observer, it may possibly have been gathered before this, is somewhat of a sentimentalist. The Patient Observer And His Friends Still more typical of the national taste for moral purpose and quack philosophy are the professional optimists and eye-dimmers, with their two grand divisions, the boarding-school romantics and the Christian Endeavor Society sentimentalists. A Book of Prefaces Stalest device of the sentimentalist—the self-sacrificing lie! Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi The mob and its maudlin causes attract only sentimentalists and scoundrels, chiefly the latter. The Antichrist If I could have one grand wish it would be that everybody could know him as I do: the man; the book-worm; the toastmaster; the public speaker; the writer; the sentimentalist; the friend. The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison He is a remnant and legacy of mediævalism, a sentimentalist, perhaps, but no furtive plotter against the present progress of things. Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought The one exception is offered by Razumov—and Razumov is Conrad's picture of a flabby fool, of a sentimentalist destroyed by his sentimentality. A Book of Prefaces The author, while never a sentimentalist, constantly teaches kindness to the birds. A Mother's List of Books for Children There were not wanting in Dorade admirers and sentimentalists, who were wont to watch the windows of The Tresilyan as long as light lingered there. Sword and Gown A Novel But this is the view that may be taken only by the sentimentalist, the poet loitering along the lane. An Arkansas Planter In the timid sentimentalist's view, death is horrible. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The supreme poets are no dainty or fragile sentimentalists; in reality they are the very flower of human penetration. Platform Monologues Though no one would have accused him of being a sentimentalist or an emotional man, his emotions overpowered him for once and swept doubt of emotion and truth into some outer world. Robin He hated the sentimentalists and all their works; and determined to keep his new comedy faithful to nature, whether people called it low or not. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series He knew English history as handed down to him by the sentimentalist. An Arkansas Planter This nurse is more damaging than the sentimentalist who fails to give the hypodermic; for that slip is easily discovered, and the transgressor must immediately reform and obey orders, or be dismissed. Applied Psychology for Nurses Magdalen," she said at once, "in the presence of that weak sentimentalist my lips are closed. Prisoners Fast Bound In Misery And Iron What you have said," she resumed, "is the last word of the sentimentalist. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Before I could answer he went on: "I'm no mawkish sentimentalist, and I won't allow anybody to be sorry for me—do you hear?" In Search of the Unknown "I don't wonder that the absurdity of it does not strike him," he said, "for he is a drowning sentimentalist, catching at a fantastic straw." An Arkansas Planter But I am a sentimentalist and not proof at all against two little boys milking, who are liable to fall into the pail. The Hills of Hingham But lie was not only a humorist with "a thousand little sceptical notions to defend," but he was a sentimentalist as well. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters The Victorian English simply thought him an indecent sentimentalist, as they did all the hot and humble religious diarists of Italy or Spain. The Victorian Age in Literature Man can lawfully hunt and fish and practise his skill at the expense of the brute creation, notwithstanding the modern fad of sentimentalists. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence It is the objection of the sentimentalist; and, ridiculous as the mode of discussion appears when applied to the laws of natural philosophy, the sociologist is constantly met by objections of just that character. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other But Mr. Harley was no such one of fineness, upon whom he would have looked down as a visionary and a sentimentalist. The President A novel It would be difficult to imagine a childhood better calculated than this to encourage pathos in a humorist and fun in a sentimentalist. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters You evidently regard me as a weak sentimentalist, misled by a maudlin philosophy. The Battle of Principles A Study of the Heroism and Eloquence of the Anti-Slavery Conflict Then these two sentimentalists wend their way to a secluded quarter of the vast park, and presently the faithful fawn mysteriously disappears. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary The sentimentalists among us always seize upon the survivals of the old order. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other And when the train had gone, Sir Francis left the platform in a state of profound abstraction, and was driven home in his brougham feeling more like a sentimentalist than a lawyer. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches I don't trust sentimentalists; they seldom have much honesty or justice. A Crooked Path A Novel It is the age when it is possible for fortune to make a dare-devil of a philosopher, a sceptic of a worshipper, a cynic of a sentimentalist. The Miller Of Old Church Maybe I'm what Archie Lawanne calls a romantic sentimentalist, but there is something in me that craves from a man more than elementary passion. The Hidden Places There is one feature of Canadian justice which sentimentalists deplore. The Canadian Commonwealth Broussard was tolerably certain of Mrs. Fortescue's assistance, who was an open and confessed sentimentalist, and was generally understood to be the guardian angel of all the love affairs at Fort Blizzard. Betty at Fort Blizzard This brilliant personage, who combined the wit and the moralist, the courtier and the soldier, the man of literary tastes and the sentimentalist par excellence, was born in 1613. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 She did not confess that she had detected a similar weakness in herself, and that, seen the world over, it is the indubitable mark of the sentimentalist. The Miller Of Old Church By Jove," he said, "all you sentimentalists read the History of the World with your intellects in your breeches pockets. Told in a French Garden August, 1914 The Boers are not sentimentalists, but are eminently practical. Boer Politics Intellectual training had given her the spirit of order and proportion, of definiteness and measure, and this marks her alike from the great sentimentalists and the sweeping satirists. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot Turn this and fresh water flows from the well itself, thus consoling any sentimentalist with visions of a dripping moss-covered bucket. If You're Going to Live in the Country He gave a sincerely respectful hearing to sentimentalists, mystics, spiritualists, wizards, cranks, quacks, and impostors—for it is hard to draw the line, and James was not willing to draw it prematurely. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion In many of his nocturnes Chopin is the adored sentimentalist of boarding-school misses. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art Dudevant have painted Chopin somewhat as a sickly sentimentalist, living in an atmosphere of moonshine and unreality. The Great German Composers He failed, as only a sentimentalist can fail, in the province of pathos.... Adventures in Criticism "You are such a sentimentalist, dear," she whispered. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton You have spoken from the mushroom pedestal of the sentimentalist. A Lost Leader Misguided sentimentalists and more malicious politicians in the North had suddenly endowed the Negro with the ballot. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I Brooks is a mixture of the sentimentalist and the hideous pessimist, you know, and it is the privilege of his years to be sometimes in earnest. A Prince of Sinners He eschewed the too common compromise which the sentimentalist makes with reflection and calculation, and it was this which saved him from being a sentimentalist. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues For, strange to say, it is the moralists and the doctrinaires who are always in the wrong: it is the sentimentalists and the rebels who are always in the right in this matter. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science The socialist and the sentimentalist and the philanthropist, dropping gold through his fingers, have each had their fling at it, but their cry is like the cry from the wilderness—a long, lone thing! A Lost Leader Well, then the sentimentalists among the whites devised the reservation system and the allowance system. Lydia of the Pines Besides, I will frankly admit that I am in no sense of the word a sentimentalist. A Prince of Sinners There is a certain class of sentimentalists to whom it is positive joy to be made to weep, and the longer they can pump up the tears the more content they are. The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) It was getting that time of day when even a sentimentalist wants a beefsteak, especially if he has hiked over dusty scorching trails and scrambled over rocks all day. The River and I To the Times he seemed "a sentimentalist whose dainty taste requires something more flimsy than the strong sense and sturdy morality of his fellow-Englishmen." Matthew Arnold Oh, there's a cheap bunch of sentimentalists in the town,—all of 'em, you'll notice, with good incomes,—who claim the Indians are like children, so we should take care of 'em like children. Lydia of the Pines For Millet is neither a revolutionary nor a sentimentalist, nor even a romanticist; he is essentially a classicist of the classicists, a conservative of the conservatives, the one modern exemplar of the grand style. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects The Jew was clearly no sentimentalist; but the glass of wine, and the few words of civility and recollection with which I had devoted it to his pretty daughter, evidently touched the father's heart. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 For the gossips there were the crowded drawing-rooms, for the hungry there were Lucullian tables, and for the sentimentalists there was the conservatory. The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Who is to settle the limit, and escape the charge of being either a dilettante and a sentimentalist on the one hand, or a Philistine on the other? p. Lost Leaders He has become sentimentalist; but some of the music of the scene has strength. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas Sainte-Beuve says somewhere, though not in his final verdict on De Musset, that his chief merit is having restored to French literature the wit which had been driven out of it by the sentimentalists. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility, but never does a concrete manly deed. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals And—"A bit too much of a sentimentalist to be taken seriously," some knowing fellow in a kennel coat of the latest style will tell you. Jan A Dog and a Romance Suffice it to say that I am a sentimentalist, like yourself. Corporal Sam and Other Stories And then your sentimentalists—your fools—hold him up as a type! The Gun-Brand Might not any one of us who had endured it turn upon the pagan and sentimentalist, crying in the mood of a Swift or a Voltaire, "Ca vous amuse, la vie"? Preaching and Paganism In the meantime we reverend sentimentalists advance, gazing with odoriferous admiration upon the prospect about us, and expatiating in the purest of Latin upon the beauties of unsophisticated nature. Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three Was the great sentimentalist himself unfeeling, dissolute, and utterly depraved? Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions He was a sentimentalist and a rhetorician, but one of the most brilliant of rhetoricians; while his sentiment, though not always deep or lasting, was for the nonce sufficiently sincere. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century "Who in the world," he demanded, "save a few unwholesome sentimentalists, would consider the killing of Rosario a crime?" The Lighted Way If it is ignored today by the pseudo-religionists and the sentimentalists; it is clearly enough perceived by contemporary science and contemporary art. Preaching and Paganism There are cynics and sentimentalists who are the despair of all who are seriously working for better citizenship. Humanly Speaking Some letters and papers of Sterne are now before me which reveal a piece of secret history of our sentimentalist. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions It is not true, whatever sentimentalists may say, that all sorrow is comforted and therefore blessed. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII He is no such idealist or sentimentalist as to leave these new-made furrows, so terribly torn up in three years of war, to renew their own verdure by any mere spontaneous vegetation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 It is only the fool or the brute or the sentimentalist who is unterrified by nature. Preaching and Paganism But the chances are that the men to whom our stranger was listening were neither cynics nor sentimentalists, but idealists who had the American temperament. Humanly Speaking We no longer insist with the older theologies that he is completely under the curse of "original sin," nor do we believe with certain sentimentalists that he comes "trailing clouds of glory." How to Teach Religion Principles and Methods The man's a sentimentalist ... like all men who live alone or shut away. Waste A Tragedy, In Four Acts No mere words for the genuine sentimentalist; he packs his sentimental self into a cab, he engages the services of a policeman, and he plunges into the nasty deeps of the City's misery. Side Lights So violently did the hero and the sentimentalist unite in that strange composite being that was Nevill Tyson. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) But they are gone, and shall we now confide the interests of this great nation, to the keeping of a few sickly sentimentalists? A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin or, An Essay on Slavery I think he is more like you than you fancy; that if you once pierced his reserve, you would find him a sentimentalist at heart. One Man in His Time Arrant sentimentalist, born and trained flirt, as this confession shows her to have been, it also shows that she lived to rue it. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Shall I tell you, dear sentimentalist, that the Hopeless brigade would not accept your kindness if they could? Side Lights Mrs. Nevill Tyson may have understood men; it is not so clear that she knew all about sentimentalists. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) Lapse of years has increased the distance and the enchantment, so that modern agitators and sentimentalists discover marvellous excellences in the native Governments of the now remote past. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official Had Corinna spoken the truth when she called him a sentimentalist at heart? One Man in His Time Bitterly enough she was to rue that dalliance with the vainest sentimentalist ever begotten in Ireland or fostered in England. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Which of the sentimentalists has ever travelled to America with a few hundreds of Russian and Polish Jews, Saxon peasants, and Irish peasants from the West? Side Lights Now, while the author of Salamnbo was a romanticist turned sour, the author of Carmen was a sentimentalist sheathed in irony. Parisian Points of View He explains, to be sure, that the first English sentimentalists, such as Richardson and Sterne, were anything but romantic. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century We men are sentimentalists, as long as things don't come home. The Real Adventure This verse always drew tears from the sentimentalists in the audience, and if the singer had pleased by his efforts the song ended in a roar of tumultuous applause. Drake, Nelson and Napoleon Does the sentimentalist imagine that the brick-and-mortar structures about which he wails were always centres of festering ugliness? Side Lights In precisely such a mood of deliberate melancholy does the sentimentalist address himself to the Confiscations and the Penal Laws. The Open Secret of Ireland And the sentimentalist, kind only to be cruel, unwittingly promotes precisely the results which he most deprecates, though they are often much more beneficial than his own aims. Outspoken Essays There was too much grim reality in ten-hour days spent over a machine in the stifling mill room to feed a sentimentalist whose thirty odd years were no accomplice to romance. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls Verily, EUGENIUS, the story requires but the 'decorative art' of the literary sentimentalist to make it moving, even to the modish. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 10, 1892 To the sentimentalist they are only animals; and he is kind to them as he would be to an ailing dog at home. Side Lights Yet he ceases to be a sentimentalist when duty calls him to face the realities of life. Windjammers and Sea Tramps The sentimentalist shows a bitter hatred against those who wish to cure an evil by removing its causes. Outspoken Essays |
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