| 单词 | sentimentality |
| 例句 | Great people, my parents, but prone to bouts of crippling sentimentality. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Saccharine sentimentality isn’t going to stop me from feeling helpless and terrified. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But there were two things the Dufarges hadn’t counted on: the Laughing Man’s sentimentality and his command of the timber-wolf language. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z No point in giving that up for sentimentality. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a deep streak of sloppy sentimentality to him and he loved to sit around fires singing sad songs of home. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm sure he got drunk just in order to get up the nerve to walk in the door and tell me he loved me, and after that eruption of sentimentality, he wanted out. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “No sentimentality, comrade!” cried Snowball, from whose wounds the blood was still dripping. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Their sentimentality was excessive, but I listened, and thanked them for coming. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The three dancers in the piece, all recent graduates of Juilliard themselves, bring a distinctive vocabulary to the montage, drawing viewers into an experience that is at once life-affirming and joyful, without any bubble-gum sentimentality. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z You can’t be a modem woman and insist on the old sentimentalities. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ginnie was, in fact, slightly put off by this information, whatever its degree of truth, but not to the point of sentimentality. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It would be stupid, as always, to reveal my own sentimentality, my weakness , to him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She liked him, cornrows running down the length of his scalp, and his expression always wry, scornful of sentimentality. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something--an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Papa and I are both packrats: he because of sentimentality and me because I never want to throw away anything that could be worth something. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z His idea of sentimentality was the presentation of the Lombardi trophy at the end of the Super Bowl. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z In 1916 Satie concocted a baldly insulting parody of themes from Gounod’s opera Mireille, and several of his cabaret songs make fun of Massenet’s supposed sentimentality. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I have to keep my sentimentality in check or I won’t be able to go on—I’d be crushed by the weight of memory. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The Greek mythologists are not rhetoricians and are notably free from sentimentality. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I shall tell them that our courts, swamped with mawkish sentimentality, are no longer fit instruments to safeguard the public peace! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When trafficking in cadavers, it helped to be immune to sentimentality. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She had Johnny’s sentimentality without his good looks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Bigwig’s spirit was as tough as his body and quite without sentimentality, but, like most creatures who have experienced hardship and danger, he could recognize and respect suffering when he saw it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To the point, Terrance’s brother had never received his human portion of sentimentality. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z You forget that she thrives on sentimentality almost as much as Les does. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Mostly, the show is exactly what it sounds like: a hospital melodrama, with whiz-bang medical science, a dash of intra-staff romance and shameless sentimentality. On ‘The Good Doctor,’ the Anti-Antihero Is In 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z In his review last November, Ben Brantley praised the show for “retaining the jolliness and sentimentality” of earlier versions while also foregrounding the story’s social consciousness. ‘Christmas Carol’ Review: Brooding Scrooge Gets Ghosted 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z But that's barely the case here – Bishop sails close to but resists sentimentality for most of the show, at least until a tearjerking, coup de théâtre finale. Des Bishop 2010-08-21T12:27:00Z When the movie opens, he is living in Marcel’s house, which has been converted into an Airbnb with disastrous consequences that give the tale shape and sentimentality. ‘Marcel the Shell With Shoes On’ Review: Bigger Isn’t Better 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z So now he’s mixing it up — sleaze and sentimentality. Review: R. Kelly’s New Album, ‘The Buffet,’ Offers Sex and Sentiment 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z With bleak clarity, and managing somehow to resist sentimentality, she recalls her thoughts as the realisation dawns on her that her entire world has come to an end. Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala – review 2013-04-03T07:00:01Z That complication alone makes The Lovers a warmer entry than many in the canon of marital-strife studies, the best of which range in approach from elegiac sentimentality to all-out emotional assault. Bad romance: a thorny history of marital strife on film 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z But her voice — dark, rich and velvety, with soaring high notes, plush, chesty lows and immaculate pitch — admirably conveyed the sentimentality and ardor the songs required. Music Review: Singing the Romance in the Russian Soul 2010-03-02T22:22:00Z He walks a narrow line, on one side of which is sentimentality; on the other is the wide-eyed freshness and innocence with which youth views the world, which we are all ever struggling to recall. The challenge and joy of poetry by Robin Coste Lewis and Adrian Matejka 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z In a way, her slave-dinner-party idea is uglier even than her “N word” admission, because it’s thought-through sentimentality for a racist system, excused as being about a love for beauty and graciousness. Less Than Accidental Racist: Why Paula Deen’s Comments Insult Her Fans Too 2013-06-20T17:10:41Z For perhaps the first time in her career, Ms. Wertmüller faced the charge of sentimentality. Lina Wertmüller, Italian Director of Provocative Films, Dies at 93 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Throughout this story Jack's voice resonates clearly without allowing the novel to descend into sentimentality. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z This is sleazy and ecstatic and damaged soul music, full of unexpected crevices and refreshingly free of sentimentality. From Retro Yuck to Foodie Rap 2011-12-17T03:03:14Z Although “In Memoriam” clocks in at nearly 400 pages, Winn’s prose is percussive, driving the story forward with a mix of Edwardian masculine sentimentality and the improbable plotting of a period romance. A Devastating Tale of War, a Tender Story of Love 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z “Don’t Call Me Son” is notable for its utter lack of sentimentality. Review: ‘Don’t Call Me Son’ Considers Identity and Fluidity 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Young love is extremely tricky terrain, requiring big emotions without sentimentality and equal parts certainty and uncertainty. The Screenwriting Team Behind ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Kelly McDonald, 19, redeemed the sentimentality of the cabaret staple “Taylor the Latte Boy,” with a humorous lighthearted interpretation. Review: New York Cabaret Convention Slips In Modern Flourishes 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z Nicholas Woodeson's bullying patriarch, Max, veers terrifyingly between bilious rage and familial sentimentality. The Homecoming ? review 2011-08-04T10:54:01Z Well, not quite: I didn’t anticipate how much the sentimentality of the closing scenes, set to Richard Marx’s cloying 1989 hit “Right Here Waiting,” would make me cringe. Movie Review: ?Tyler Perry?s Good Deeds,? With Thandie Newton 2012-02-25T00:20:20Z The ghastliness of this damp and squishy comedy is the byproduct of a confused and earnest sentimentality, a willful devotion to wide-eyed wonder that confuses simplicity with simple-mindedness. Movie Review: ‘The Odd Life of Timothy Green,’ Starring Jennifer Garner 2012-08-14T22:10:05Z Any historical event can take on a sheen of nostalgic sentimentality with the passage of time, particularly when it’s dramatized on the big screen. Christopher Nolan’s 'Dunkirk' Is a Masterpiece 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Their goal was to sweep aside familiar modes of gestural painting and pictorial sentimentality, most prominently exemplified by Abstract Expressionism and Tachisme. ‘Zero,’ a Look at a Movement, at the Guggenheim 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Elements of the piece threaten to tip it into sentimentality. Royal Ballet triple bill – review 2013-03-03T00:05:19Z I stamped my foot right into a muddy sludge of sentimentality — and also, in time, regret, because in fact the new Dante is more stylish, and serves better coffee and food and cocktails, than before. The Italian Cafe Where New Yorkers Sample La Dolce Vita 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z This brand of contemporary dance is no longer an artistic movement but a way of dancing that generally includes unison formations, swift kicks, rolls to the floor and cheap sentimentality. Time to Put Choreography Back on Its Feet 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z Other McDonagh hallmarks include a breakneck, swaybacked plot, by turns hilarious and grim, painted over with a nearly invisible varnish of sentimentality. ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ Review: Giving Your Friend the Finger 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The more you know about Nick, the less haunting his situation is likely to be, and as Mr. Rush traces his life forward and back, “Everything Must Go” tiptoes toward obviousness and sentimentality. | 'Everything Must Go': A Picture Window on a Life Turned Inside Out 2011-05-12T21:43:02Z Embracing sentimentality in every scene, this occasionally endearing and often cloying film examines what it means to mourn someone who was already gone. ‘Little Big Women’ Review: Heartbreak is a Family Affair 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Such pluck in the face of adversity verges on kitsch; for a moment a wave of syrupy sentimentality seems to be building up in the wings. Tyson's inviting 'Trip to Bountiful' at the Ahmanson Theatre 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z There is no plea for compassion, no attempt at sentimentality and perhaps no effort at moral judgment. ‘John’ at the National Theater in London 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z For that matter, Zahler’s taut, restrained style is a part of that exertion of force—it’s an artistic force that, with its centripetal pressure, prevents the centrifugal force of emotionalism, sentimentality, Pollyanna-ish liberalism from prevailing. “Dragged Across Concrete,” Reviewed: A Stylish, Repugnant Crime Thriller Starring Mel Gibson 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z A pushier, less confident filmmaker would have underlined the quirkiness of the characters, condescending to them with mockery, sentimentality or a coy blend of the two. | 'Terri': Another Teenage Misfit Trying to Like Himself 2011-06-30T22:04:07Z Largely elegiac in tone, this is very much a young man's work, with all the cloying sentimentality of adolescence. Sketches of Spain by Federico Garcia Lorca – review 2013-04-05T16:40:01Z Tony Benn and Suggs from Madness are interviewed about their childhood experiences growing up in London and, interestingly, both tell us there is no point in sentimentality and nostalgia about a supposed golden age. London: The Modern Babylon – review 2012-08-02T19:00:01Z He spends all his time caring for his mother – a relationship depicted without sentimentality. How a modest Italian film trumped the extravagance of Donizetti 2010-06-18T09:00:00Z “One of the things that happens when you write characters – and maybe this is my own sentimentality – is that I always find I have an instinct to protect them,” she says. Greta Gerwig: ‘I don't need a man. I would have done all this anyway' 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z But the sentiments are real without succumbing to exaggerated sentimentality, thanks in large part to that big lovable lug, J.K. 'The Music Never Stopped': J.K. Simmons memorable as a distraught father 2011-03-31T20:36:06Z The thing is," said Mart, "I know – or care – nothing for the lower orders so my attitude towards you is a mixture of contempt and patrician sentimentality. Digested read: Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis 2012-06-10T18:00:02Z Ehrlbruch gives the impression that he is an artist incapable of sentimentality, but his drawings have a delicacy and a sweet humour that help us cope with the immensity of the subject. In translation: nine authors pick their favourite children's fiction 2013-06-28T17:29:01Z Its shallow lyrics and syrupy delivery land with cloying sentimentality: “I don’t just want to be your father/I also want to be your best friend,” Balvin croons in Spanish. J Balvin Attempts to Reintroduce Himself on ‘Jose’ 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z The dialogue is rarely more than functional and occasionally sententious, the lapses into sentimentality are rare, but the coda of the elderly Janusz returning to Poland is probably a mistake. The Way Back ? review 2010-12-26T00:05:13Z Most important, through three episodes Warwick is untainted by the sentimentality that weighed on the heroes of “Extras” and the film “The Invention of Lying,” which Mr. Gervais wrote with Matthew Robinson. Television Review: ?Life?s Too Short? on HBO Has Warwick Davis and Ricky Gervais 2012-02-16T22:44:56Z “He really was a prodigy, and his voice and style — sharp, observant, devoid of moralizing or sentimentality — were something brand-new in American letters.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z I would not want to be without Mr. Herheim’s vision, which celebrates, without undue indulgence, the sentimentality that permeates “La Bohème.” ‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z The younger Caan’s physical and vocal resemblance to the youthful Michael Douglas brings to mind Michael and Kirk Douglas’s competitive relationship with its volatile blend of machismo, Oedipal tension and sentimentality. | 'Mercy': Scott Caan, Star and Writer of Tough-Guy Romance 2010-04-30T00:17:00Z Mainly because, throughout this, you know you are going to get emotion, yes, but crucially without its killer cousin, sentimentality. Rewind TV: The Village; Jonathan Creek; Game of Thrones – review 2013-04-06T21:45:01Z It started slow, fizzled, then meandered into sentimentality. On Comedy: Appreciating the Comics Sean Patton and Ted Alexandro 2014-03-12T20:01:16Z But interviews with 35 Tony voters — out of the 868 eligible — suggest that sentimentality and emotional appeal will be powerful forces in both the musical and play categories, especially for the acting awards. Predictions From Tony Award Voters 2013-06-06T16:30:00Z Amber's descent from fierce independence to dangerous delinquency is played without sentimentality or soapy drama. Parenthood – box set review 2013-01-24T16:40:01Z No such sentimentality clings to the Vietnam War, which only begins to explain why our collective knowledge about the decades-long struggle largely consists of fragments. Ten years in the making, "The Vietnam War" is broad and stunning 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child o' Mine is still vital and steel-spined, but also a platform for the Stoke-born guitarist's sentimentality; it ends with a burst of God Save the Queen. Slash – review 2012-06-08T17:04:25Z A series that charted the demise of the old Labour movement without sentimentality, but with an underlying rage at the times. Box Set Club: Our Friends in the North 2011-07-19T13:29:17Z The result was a weird combination of progressive homily and Romantic sentimentality. Exhibition Review: Public Library’s ‘ABC of It’ Looks at Children’s Books 2013-06-20T22:19:09Z And while only the hardest-hearted readers will remain dry-eyed while reading these books, Shaw and Bragg resist cheap sentimentality and instead provide still more arguments for appreciating and truly acknowledging lives other than our own. Analysis | What do we owe animals? New books reevaluate our relationship to the natural world. 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Its syrupy celebration of endless love sometimes verges on sappy idolatry, but it also maximizes Timberlake and Santos’s talent for pop sentimentality. Romeo Santos Reveals Another Volume of Boundary-Crossing Bachata 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z There is also a light dusting of mediocre worthiness and maudlin sentimentality over everything, as good women battle against the odds, and against the difficult circumstances, to bring babies into a difficult world. TV review: The Snowman and The Snowdog; Doctor Who: The Snowmen; Call The Midwife 2012-12-25T20:45:00Z British comedy is notoriously callous, with an unyielding ban on sentimentality or political correctness. Television Review: ?Absolutely Fabulous? 20th Anniversary Specials - Review 2012-01-05T22:43:52Z Their chemistry delightful, Ms. Rice and Ms. Kurzak danced, crept and cowered with ease, radiating sweetness without ever tipping over into sentimentality. ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ a Family Holiday Treat at the Met 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z If you’re particularly hungry to escape current realities, and have a susceptibility to industrial-strength sentimentality wrapped in tastefully autumnal lighting, then “Little Voice” on Apple TV+ might appeal to you. Review: ‘Little Voice’ Is a Twee Musical Fairy Tale 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Hanson’s abiding interest in beauty, his ease with playing the heartstrings and his unabashed sentimentality in this piece still register as defiant as they do disarming. Review | Lang Lang and the NSO delight a comeback crowd at the Kennedy Center 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z She’s spent decades training her mind to discriminate between relevant and irrelevant facts, to identify patches of fogginess and sentimentality in her thinking, but this crisis at home threatens to disrupt her carefully managed equilibrium. Review: ‘The Children Act,’ by Ian McEwan puts beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses on trial Rossini's familiar warhorse – done without sentimentality and without scrambling the final galop – sounded fresh and new minted. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda/Ehnes – review 2013-02-24T18:00:05Z But the widespread, visceral responses to familiar songs and stories intrigued me: Why does Paul McCartney provoke such deep sentimentality? Everyone loves Paul McCartney: The secrets of one Beatle’s eternal appeal 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z This a naturally occurring phenomenon in American political life, which is particularly susceptible to sentimentality. George W. Bush’s best-selling book of paintings shows curiosity and compassion 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z The memoir was praised for offering a sympathetic account of race and class without slipping into naïveté or excessive sentimentality. E. R. Braithwaite, Author of ‘To Sir, With Love,’ Dies at 104 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Shepard's fond yarns of his Midwest youth tread a fine line between wryness and sentimentality. Review: 'A Christmas Story' on stage will please fans of the movie 2010-12-10T22:43:00Z Her good, plain style works against sentimentality, and against glorifying what the men went through. Reader reviews roundup 2013-07-05T17:06:24Z This is a novel of tangles and absences, aggressively resistant to sentimentality. This Old Woman Has Some Important Things to Say, if Only You’d Listen 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z And he exploits the sentimentality of the instrument for all it’s worth, singing lines like “For every wish upon a star that goes unanswered in the dark/There is a dream I’ve dreamt about you.” Ukulele Crazy 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z In that sense, Watkins has merely given full voice to the sudden disorientation of motherhood, which is so often muffled beneath a crocheted bunny blanket of sentimentality. Review | Claire Vaye Watkins’s new novel approaches motherhood — with a torch 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z She led us through the charming forest of Schumann's Waldszenen but never descended into bucolic sentimentality, her delicate taste particularly refined in the impressionistic Vogel als Prophet. Steve Reich, London Sinfonietta; Mitsuko Uchida; Tallis Scholars – review 2013-03-10T00:06:07Z How vigilant are you about avoiding a kind of sentimentality that feels, if not cheap, perhaps unearned? ‘Ted Lasso’ Is Back, but No Longer an Underdog 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z From this crucible of pain, Haneke and his cast conjure something paradoxically uplifting – a paean to marital devotion that avoids sentimentality like the plague while looking death in the face; calm, unblinking, heartbreaking – honest. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-03-17T00:05:25Z After Yvonne died in 1957 and was cremated, Le Corbusier, in a grim act of sentimentality, retrieved an intact vertebra from the ashes and kept it on his work desk. Book review: Modern Man: The Life of Le Corbusier 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z For Matthew Sweet, broadcaster and author of The West End Front, it's equally to do with what he calls "a growing sentimentality about the war". Why are we so obsessed with films about the second world war? 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s a major play at parental sentimentality, but a smart one — Goosebumps is the kind of franchise not tied to time or format. Official Goosebumps March Madness Bracket Is Already Wrong 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Full of sass and good spirits — along with a spritz or two of sentimentality — “The Legend of Georgia McBride” is lighter and slighter than either of those works. Review: ‘The Legend of Georgia McBride,’ From Elvis Impersonator to Drag Queen 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z There's a place for mawkish nostalgia and sentimentality, too, thus Gladys Knight's The Way We Were. Readers recommend songs about old age: The results 2010-08-12T22:00:00Z Or rather, he lacks confidence that the audience will warm to such a man, and so he pipes in a layer of sentimentality that is effective without being fully convincing. Review: ‘First Man’ Takes a Giant Leap for Man, a Smaller Step for Movies 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Befitting a theatrical troupe, the tributes are freighted with syrupy sentimentality, but the sentiments are genuine and deeply felt. 'Learning' Lear: Places, Please, for Opening Night 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z But the film ultimately shies away from its most disturbing ideas, falling back on a comforting sentimentality. ‘Poupelle of Chimney Town’ Review: Seeking Refuse 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z I last looked at reader-submitted poems after 9/11 and wrote about them — their technical awfulness, their cliched, saccharine sentimentality — but ultimately about my lump-in-the-throat reaction to them. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Capturing the pandemic and protests in poetry 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z The genre’s most important singers are still the ones who sound most comfortable in that slow-motion riptide between innovation and sentimentality. Still think today’s country music sounds fake? Get real. 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But I am impressed by them as art because they combine that affection with an unyielding resistance to sentimentality. Review | Sally Mann: A great artist who loves tumbling into trouble 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Somehow a very English, as well as a very masculine poem, "Elegy" thrives on its youthful defiance, candour and lack of sentimentality. Poem of the week: Elegy by Sidney Keyes 2013-07-15T11:42:00Z But a writer has to risk sentimentality in order to achieve sentiment. “The World Without You” 2012-06-29T20:06:00Z Perhaps Rhoda fans didn’t remember to vote, or perhaps the cold hard facts of judging overpowered sentimentality. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Live From Hollywood! 2013-10-08T14:11:35Z Did Bullock deserve her Oscar, or is the Academy guilty here of rewarding a mushy, sugar-coated slice of hokey sentimentality? You review: The Blind Side 2010-03-29T15:01:00Z When it comes down to it, Ruth is practical, giving up an engagement ring from her late husband to help Nadia, resisting sentimentality and encouraging Nadia to be in the moment. Ride or die Ruth: The link in the intergenerational trauma chain of “Russian Doll” 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z They will learn to trust each other, though not in a hokey way; Ms. Jiles is much too good to let her book sink into sentimentality. Review: In ‘News of the World,’ Unlikely Companions Bond on a Perilous Journey 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z But not even the filmmakers seem convinced, which may explain why they embrace baroque brutality topped by a dollop of audience-mollifying sentimentality. ‘The Shadow of Violence’ Review: Behold, the Bad Man (Again) 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Too easily taken for granted, its accomplishment is its ability to gaze steadily with warmth but minimal sentimentality at the world through unjaded 14-year-old eyes. Review: A House Car? For ‘Microbe and Gasoline,’ It’s Freedom 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Following an eccentric line, Ms. Tanowitz dodges sentimentality and sneaks up on deep emotion. Review: In Pam Tanowitz’s ‘Broken Story,’ Wit Comes Full Circle 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Charges of cowardice and sentimentality, which came from both white and African-American writers, were answered with counteraccusations. Arts & Leisure: Debated Movies: ?The Tree of Life,? ?The Future,? ?The Help? 2011-08-25T15:03:08Z The relationship between Kit and Sunny anchors the novel with an admirable lack of sentimentality. The Turbulent Life of the Small-Town Librarian 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The second half – until it spirals into final, toe-curling sentimentality – is stronger. Utopia – review 2012-06-27T16:53:45Z Not all that takes place in “Daphne’s Dive” strikes me as entirely credible — or free of a sprinkling of sentimentality. Review: ‘Daphne’s Dive,’ Where Everybody Knows You’re Broke 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z If some of this sentimentality softens our expectations for other "Star Trek" titles, including the upcoming movie "Section 31" starring Michelle Yeoh, so be it. A grand finale for "Star Trek: Picard" establishes why this crew is the greatest generation 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z It also straddles the line between wonderfully theatrical romantic sequences and flowery Hallmark Channel sentimentality. ‘In These Uncertain Times’ Review: Love, Loss and Zoom 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The music, moreover, tends to soft-edged sentimentality, judged against the earlier work's powerful dramatic heft. Magical restraint lets Seattle Opera's 'Butterfly' take wing 2012-05-06T20:11:05Z The result is very funny, but not always entirely truthful, which means that in the final 10 minutes, the whole thing sinks like a souffle into sentimentality, rather than an earned resolution. Cooking with Elvis – review 2013-05-02T14:02:00Z “I think people maybe go into this movie because of sentimentality or even confirmation bias, at either end political spectrum,” Mr. Kujawski said. Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Mister Rogers: Hollywood’s Newest Breakout Stars 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z The pilot has “L&O” trademarks like the tap dance between scare mongering and sentimentality, a simplified-from-the-headlines story and lots of staccato cop-speak. Fall TV 2018: New and Returning Shows to Watch 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Maybe the best way to summarize “The Gunman” is that it’s a terrible idea, a fatal morass of meretricious values and bogus sentimentality, which is executed really, really well. “The Gunman”: Sean Penn’s idiotic, glorious and doomed leftist thriller 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z TN: You’re going to turn people off, if you go off with a certain argument for a certain issue or sentimentality. “It’s when their hearts and spirits are open”: Ben Cohen explains why he’s taking the fight for campaign finance reform on tour 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z Peterson could use a dab more emotional restraint in his performance, especially in Jake’s final summation, which is oddly accompanied by swelling music that underscores its intrinsic sentimentality. Race and justice drive stage adaptation of John Grisham's 'A Time to Kill' 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z “My Misspent Youth” considered debt, “Life Would Be Perfect if I Lived in That House” real estate and “The Unspeakable” sentimentality. A Liberal Uneasy in the World of #MeToo Feminism 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Indeed, the weakness of this picture, from this reviewer’s point of view, is the sentimentality of it — its illusory concept of life. 10 Classic Christmas Movies That Our Critics Didn’t See Coming 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z That sentimentality could extend to “That Golden Girls Show!” as well. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z It was work that you were proud of – a concept now so outdated that it is tinged with sentimentality. The Full Monty on stage: the boys are back in town 2013-02-10T16:59:01Z Brits, I am a stranger to your country, an outsider to your culture, a foreigner to your sentimentality. I love The Great British Bake Off, but won't miss Mel and Sue 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z That no-nonsense voice, with its unsparing intelligence and utter lack of sentimentality, is what makes Mina such a good writer. The Impossible Case of a Japanese Locked-Room Mystery 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Except that Skyfall then falls prey to a common failing of many 50th birthday bashes: it allows sentimentality to cloud its judgment and loosen its tongue. Skyfall – first look review 2012-10-12T23:22:01Z To a degree, Burley's book reflects this sudden, silent death, but his style forgoes sentimentality or nostalgia in favour of a detached, sometimes clinical, approach to landscape and interior. The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the End of the Analog Era by Robert Burley – review 2012-12-09T00:05:44Z She brought tenderness without a trace of sentimentality to the wistful slow movement. At Carnegie Hall Opening, Delving Into Levity’s Layers 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Mostly, though, there is a laudable absence of sentimentality, which means the emotive moments really land, such as when Rick first finds the children, all alive and alert. ‘The Rescue’ Review: Going All In on a Risky Mission 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z There’s none of the mournful sentimentality that has colored other virtual presentations here and elsewhere; the theater has never looked so fresh, so full of promise. Review: Reveling in the Tap Magic of Ayodele Casel 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Hardboiled in a dowager disguise, Mrs. Fletcher is independent-minded and free of sentimentality, always ready to take a dispassionate stand for truth. The cozy "Maltese Falcon": How "Murder, She Wrote" reinvented mysteries forever 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z Part of his point, though, is that underneath the sentimentality, fueling it, are darker feelings and desires. He Killed Her Mother. Now He Wants to Make Amends. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z The easygoing second movement had the requisite rustic charm, without a trace of sentimentality. Music Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Opens Tanglewood 2010-07-11T22:38:00Z It's a testament to the stars that they manage to sell the third act sentimentality after wading through so much screenplay triteness and unimaginative direction. 'Cas & Dylan' is terminal despite great practitioners of acting 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z If anything, the sentimentality of such demises lie not in the character’s fate but in an actor’s departure. About that ‘No Time to Die’ ending… 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z As far as we know only the living can, and to me "Only One" could have used a few more human hands to guide it away from sentimentality toward raw emotion. Kanye West's 'Only One' featuring Paul McCartney: His worst-ever track? 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Though there are certain Spielberg hallmarks–yes, including some fairly unrepentant sentimentality–the film is restrained enough to earn its interest from dialogue, not from technical mastery announcing itself. Bridge of Spies Paints History in Black and White 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Ms. Backhaus’s stories, vivid with the colors of human experience, are a vital defense against sentimentality. Review: ‘Folk Wandering,’ a Wistful Musical Full of Story and Searching 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z Even a desire to affirm human dignity and elevate the human spirit can be corrupted by dishonesty in the form of sentimentality. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z Interestingly, each of the following novels had a few critical detractors who cried “sentimentality,” which goes to show the risk was taken. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z Mr. Petrenko milked the score’s modernism and led it with a propulsive energy that gave it more madness than sentimentality. How a Forgotten Opera Made a Big Comeback 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z “White Bird” is otherwise full of neat coincidences, grown-up clichés, sentimentality and stock portraiture. A New Book From the Creator of ‘Wonder’ Tells a Holocaust Story 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The multiplicity of styles — from cartoonish humor to earnest sentimentality to cutting satire, with much music woven into the blend — forms an unstable mixture that challenges director and actors alike. Theater Review: ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle,’ at Classic Stage Company 2013-05-31T02:00:01Z With a title drawn from a Buddhist parable, the movie avoids the sentimentality of formulaic "breakthrough" moments in Joan's clear-eyed choices, refusals and reckonings in the face of death. 'Delicious' delivers a tart tale of a dying salty matriarch 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z And what there is comes with a new, lenient sentimentality and dullness. Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps - review 2010-10-07T12:00:00Z It adds forced sentimentality and sexual exploitation to the dealer’s relationship with a delicate girl, which would have been better without either. Books of The Times: ‘We Live in Water’ by Jess Walter 2013-01-31T21:10:42Z Set in a retirement home and starring Gervais as a man with learning difficulties, it was a half-hour fight between caricatures of sentimentality and coarseness. Rewind TV: Wonders of Life; Jonathan Meades: The Joy of Essex; Derek – review 2013-02-02T22:45:01Z But the story is thin, the songs have a generic ring and the I’ve-Gotta-Be-Me sentimentality gets cloying. Glitz, girl power vie for 2013 Tonys in a bumpy season 2013-06-08T15:42:35Z So many different Bhutanese writers are open about their sentimentality and their ache to deliver a strong sense of their place to everything they write. A New, Flourishing Literary Scene in the Real Shangri-La 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Quietly, subversively, as is her way, Doucet proceeds to spike it, refusing sentimentality in order to provide an autopsy of youthful abandon. It’s Julie Doucet’s World 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Irving concluded with what amounts to a brutal warning, “When we writers — in our own work — escape the slur of sentimentality, we should ask ourselves if what we are doing matters.” Stephen Markley’s “Ohio”: This year’s “Hillbilly Elegy” of fiction 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Maybe because Dederer never tries to sweeten her suffering with sentimentality, it feels less onerous to ride sidesaddle on her journey through the barren flats of holy matrimony. For Better, for Worse: Three Memoirs Report From Marriage Country 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Their own attitude, as far as it can be divined, appears to be a credulous sentimentality. Review: On Netflix, a Wild Story of Guns, Sex and a Guru 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Coughtry grabs the mike and the role itself with a blend of benevolence and backbone that avoids the biggest pothole to steer around in this show — sentimentality. ‘Godspell’ maintains its spirit, energy at Olney Theatre Center 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z In any case, I had hardly expected Mr. Hare to figure in what turned out to be a comforting oasis of sentimentality in a week of hope-starved plays. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Seeing Patterns in a Nuclear Cloud 2012-06-19T17:57:24Z "I was a television version of a person with a broken heart," Matt Berninger notes mordantly in Pink Rabbits, voice all whiskey burr and molten honey, while the piano outdoes itself in sentimentality. The National: Trouble Will Find Me – review 2013-05-16T20:30:02Z The message is provocative: Whistler pours scorn on the sentimentality and piety of his age. Beautiful rebels: the daring art of the aesthetic movement 2011-03-28T20:31:01Z The film is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2022 and is remembered today for its obvious sentimentality and its half-hearted critique of the over-commercialization of Christmas. "Miracle on 34th Street" reminds us that home ownership was once an elusive dream for many Americans 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Though it deftly uses 21st-century technology, Mr. Landsman’s production is also steeped in the harsh sentimentality associated with literature from the early days of this country’s industrialization. Review: ‘Empathy School & Love Story’ Plumbs the Varieties of Loneliness 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z But she’s also a skeptic and critical thinker; for all the empathy in her songs, she rarely succumbs to sentimentality or cheap bromides. Album review: Iris DeMent, 'Sing the Delta' 2012-10-01T17:36:00Z Relationships unfold with a bright, glossy and antiseptic sentimentality in Park Hyun-gene’s “Like for Likes,” which brings abundant social media usage to shopworn rom-com contrivances. Review: ‘Like for Likes,’ a Rom-Com Set in Seoul 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z He was frequently motivated by sentimentality, erecting in the park an authentic German brewery, a money-losing venture, to re-create his experiences at Oktoberfest. Review | ‘Action Park’ looks back at one very dangerous amusement park 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z They also tip over into melodrama and sentimentality: two decidedly un-Kafkaesque qualities. Books Of the Times: ‘Forgiving the Angel,’ 4 Kafkaesque Stories Involving Kafka 2014-01-20T22:50:18Z Her insistence is on telling the story of a collective with blunt clarity, and sidestepping the genre’s potential for sentimentality or sensationalism. ‘W-3,’ a Memoir That Recalls Suffering Without Sentimentality or Sensationalism 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z And unlike most movies in the “Touched by an Angel” school of storytelling, it doesn’t descend into cheap sentimentality. Movie Review: ‘Café de Flore,’ by Jean-Marc Vallée 2012-11-08T23:54:40Z Writing those experiences, Yuknavitch is willing to risk melodrama, obscenity, and sentimentality, seemingly indifferent to the supposed canons of good taste. The Wild, Remarkable Sex Scenes of Lidia Yuknavitch 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z And there’s a high risk of sentimentality here: the precious Messiah child mewing his little Whitmanesque profundities at us about the unity of all life. Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Like many native Southerners today, I await field pea season with a mix of sentimentality and salivation. Field peas: A summertime classic throughout the South The influence of that show’s rat-tat-tat dialogue, pop culture savvy and unabashed sentimentality are all over this unconventional romantic comedy. 10 Streaming Movies to Keep Your Summer Interesting 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Just occasionally Will Ferrell’s hyperactive creations have something of Lewis in them, but without his streak of sentimentality and need to be loved. Jerry Lewis: a knockabout clown with a dark and melancholy inner life | Peter Bradshaw 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z That this scenario doesn’t develop as expected is one of the minor pleasures of “The Well-Digger’s Daughter,” a pastoral wrapped in gauze, sunlight and sentimentality. Movie Review: ‘The Well-Digger’s Daughter,’ Directed by Daniel Auteuil 2012-07-19T21:42:40Z There are shades of Lydia Davis in her carefully etched sentences as she details the ups and downs of the relationship without sentimentality. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z It's action-packed candy, full of sentimentality, angular haircuts, designer shades and deluxe locations. Best of Tribeca: Vietnamese action flick "Clash" 2010-05-04T14:40:00Z Naipaul was too close to his trapped and blighted characters for the comfort of sentimentality. Reading Naipaul in Africa 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Despite the play’s old-fashioned structure and sentimentality, as we watch Mr. Leon’s production, we feel it is happening in the present tense, in our own world of recessionary anxieties. Theater Review: ‘Raisin in the Sun’ Brings Denzel Washington Back to Broadway 2014-04-04T02:00:14Z It is central to the sentimentality surrounding the ANC — and is key to their hegemony. Nelson Mandela vs. his hagiography 2013-12-21T16:30:00Z “It has a violence and a sincere sentimentality — sadness but not despair.” Angelo Badalamenti, Composer for ‘Twin Peaks,’ Is Dead at 85 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z The "caught between two worlds" dilemma facing Aboriginal people is now well-trodden ground but Sen's lack of sentimentality about this conundrum is a refreshing interpretation. Mystery Road - Sydney film festival review 2013-06-06T00:54:00Z But unlike her forebear, Kawakami writes with a bracing lack of sentimentality, particularly when describing the lives of women. A Japanese Literary Star Joins Her Peers on Western Bookshelves 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z There’s another way of looking at this question of sentimentality. Steven Spielberg: ‘The urgency to make The Post was because of this administration’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z But its subversive intentions are ultimately undercut by its lack of nerve, along with a lurking sentimentality. | ?Happy, Happy': ?Happy, Happy,? Directed by Anne Sewitsky ? Review 2011-09-15T22:54:43Z I was glad to discover that Mr. Coburn mostly resists any such patronizing sentimentality. Review: James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson Shuffle Emotions in ‘The Gin Game’ 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z With this turn, the movie might have collapsed under the weight of its twists or drowned in the sentimentality of Aaron Zigman’s score. ‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ Review: Tyler Perry Revisits a Jim Crow-Era Romance 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Where ABC’s smash hit “The Good Doctor” opts for sentimentality, “The Resident” instead leans toward cynicism. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Counterpart’ and ‘The Resident’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z "Fast Five" is a movie about crass materialism, masculine sentimentality and extreme violence, all of them exaggerated to the point of caricature. "Fast Five" and the new action-movie brutality 2011-04-29T21:30:00Z That moment tells us a lot about Frank’s daddy issues and profound lack of sentimentality. 'House of Cards' Season 3 Episode 1 Recap: Loyalty to Frank Has A Price 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z They’re full up and hardened by the setting agents of sentimentality and professionalism. Critic’s Notebook: Billy Joel’s New Year’s Eve Concert at Barclays Center 2014-01-02T22:33:44Z True romance is precious, so it's difficult for an artist to capture sincerely and without falling into sentimentality. Readers recommend: Valentine's Day songs 2012-02-09T21:59:01Z The real signs of Americanization are higher production values, more plot elements and a streak of slightly gooey sentimentality. Television Review: Two Men Hang Out on a Couch. But One Appears to Be a Dog. 2011-06-22T22:14:46Z He plays this realization with mock sentimentality, but the metaphor is a poignant one. Review: In ‘Leo Reich: Literally Who Cares?!,’ He’s Too Hot to Live 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z That most likely explained a lack of sentimentality and sensationalism in his manipulations. Music Review: Led Zeppelin?s Stairway to Tully Hall 2011-03-29T21:51:36Z But because “The Maids” was written by Jean Genet, one of the most subversive dramatists ever, sentimentality doesn’t figure in this coruscating one-act drama from 1947. The Week Ahead 2012-03-09T19:52:13Z Mortality may be bearing down on him, but he doesn’t respond with self-pity or sentimentality – because that would be boring, predictable and so un-Bowie like. Album review: David Bowie, 'The Next Day' 2013-03-07T17:26:00Z Unlike many films that explore the subject, this one doesn’t cave in to a bogus sentimentality replete with tears and hugs. Movie Review: ‘In Our Nature,’ Directed by Brian Savelson 2012-12-07T01:21:09Z It was a leisurely and slovenly "Pag" that felt like a comfortable old operatic shoe that no longer has any support but is retained out of sentimentality. Dudamel coaxes a sense of urgency from two of opera's staples 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z There's not a whiff of treacle or sentimentality here. Holiday music: Seth MacFarlane, Downton Abbey, Idina Menzel, more 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z But in its best numbers, Ms. Katona Bennett, who played Christine in “The Phantom of the Opera,” dropped the official facade of graciousness and sentimentality to voice a cheerful sense of the absurd. Music Review: Raissa Katona Bennett at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency 2012-08-23T22:26:11Z This radical reimagining of watercolour by Burne-Jones and others meant that by the beginning of the 20th century the medium had lost any sapping associations with sentimentality. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z Suffused with a sentimentality that Wilde himself would have deplored, “The Happy Prince” is narratively mushy and meandering. Review: In His Last Years, Oscar Wilde Is Far From ‘The Happy Prince’ 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s like a band reunion after years of sniping, with all the wariness and sentimentality that such an occasion can bring. Ewan McGregor: ‘What if I'm not Scottish enough any more?’ 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z Yet the biggest problem of this production is the play itself, a randomly plotted exercise that strains for sentimentality at every bulging seam. Inconsistent tone, uneven direction plague 'Off the King's Road' 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Like her character, she seems overshadowed by the showier actors onstage; she sucks up her mother’s abuse with quiet dignity, and lets her inner poetry emerge naturally, without strain or sentimentality. Star-Crossed (and –Blessed) Revivals: Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams 2013-10-02T09:45:54Z That background actually explains several things about “The Sessions” that seem off-kilter at first, including its unabashed sentimentality and its relatively friendly portrayal of religion, both in Christian and Jewish form. “The Sessions”: An unlikely, certain-to-be Oscar-bound sex fable 2012-10-19T17:02:00Z Their coarseness and utter lack of sentimentality protect the book from preciousness. Books of The Times: ?House of Stone,? a Memoir by Anthony Shadid 2012-02-26T21:56:30Z In its gaudy eagerness and exposed earnestness, sentimentality is, in effect, the opposite of cool. People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z LOVE’s tilted “O,” which threatens to fall off the otherwise stable design, implicitly critiqued the often hollow sentimentality associated with the word, metaphorically suggesting unrequited longing and disappointment rather than saccharine affection. Robert Indiana’s Best: A Mini Retrospective 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z There are a few scenes of weepy sentimentality, and many more exuberant montages. ‘Wildhood’ Review: On the Road, Sorting Out Growing Up 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The stories have a tinge of sentimentality that sometimes shades into something more cloying, but Mr. Evers knows his characters well. Samantha Hunt’s ‘Mr. Splitfoot,’ and More 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z A 1994 review in The New York Times called his photos “bathetic, tinged with a syrupy sentimentality.” Duane Michals Prepares for His Retrospective 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Rapp’s sentimentality bursts out of the dark, dank closet with his latest effort, “The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois,” at Atlantic Stage 2. Review: ‘The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois’ Revels in Unease 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Emotive rabble-rousing and heart-on-sleeve sentimentality were both jettisoned in favour of a searching appraisal of the work's structural coherence and its emphasis on the links between landscape and legend. Prom 8: BBCSO/B?lohl?vek ? review 2011-07-21T10:00:34Z TV often trades in sentimentality: narrative sugar-pills, little engineered reversals of fortune that persuade us our own happy ending is around the corner. Breath of fresh heir: how Succession became the must-watch TV of the year 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Using real experiences shared by the homeless in story workshops, Omotoso — who was also a creator of the South African television series “A Place Called Home” — directs with empathy and without sentimentality. Review: In ‘Vaya,’ Three Travelers Find Danger in Johannesburg 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Despite the dangers of sentimentality, Mugridge steers away from the treacherous rocks called twee, and is a distinctive but unassuming stage presence. The Watery Journey of Nereus Pike – review 2013-03-20T18:33:20Z It would be interesting to know what Mr. Kramer — acerbic, funny and, by the evidence of the film, a man not possessed of a great deal of sentimentality — feels about the bland optimism of #lovewins. Review: ‘Larry Kramer in Love & Anger,’ Portrait of the Rebel as Gay Activist 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z Watching the pilot again, though, it became harder to ignore the soap opera underpinnings and the twee sentimentality. Television Review: ?Grimm? on NBC and ?Once Upon a Time? on ABC - Review 2011-10-22T00:00:17Z They also debunk the notion that Wyeth’s work was marred by sentimentality and unreflective naturalism. SAM’s ‘Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect’ includes rarely seen works by the artist 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Granados's suite Goyescas is the more easy going of the works, a distinctly soft-edged translation of Goya's visual world into musical terms, and Pizarro captures that slight air of sentimentality perfectly. Alb?niz: Iberia; Granados: Goyescas 2010-04-29T21:05:00Z I don't know whether it was rehab or heart surgery, but he seems to have arrived at a place where sentimentality can sit quite easily. Robin Williams: 'I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust ? that's hard to recover from' 2010-09-20T07:00:00Z The legal procedural, which is juxtaposed with Viljar’s healing process and his decision to testify, unfolds in the conventional, classical middle distance, with surprising moments of un-Greengrassian sentimentality. Perspective | Paul Greengrass didn’t set out to make another movie about terrorism. But ‘22 July’ called to him. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z But she may have been the first to harness the anger in that particular energy without sentimentality or condescending cuteness. Review: Homeless Teenagers, Strutting and Seething in ‘Runaways’ 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z "Excessive garishness" and "sentimentality" are dismissals that reveal more about the speaker than the object: so you fear the garish and shun the sentimental? Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z The Four Tops traded more on nostalgia and sentimentality. The Temptations and the Four Tops Hit Broadway 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Its premise – an injured soldier in Vietnam becomes best friends with a labrador – suggests an onslaught of greasy sentimentality sickly enough to give you gastroenteritis. Reanimating James Dean is a monstrous, legacy-destroying idea 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z His approach here is irreverent, in the sense that there’s not much discernible sentimentality for the form. Review | This gutsy new ‘West Side Story’ is unlike any you’ve seen — and it’s exhilarating 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z In its place is an examination of a legendary American pugnaciousness, which veers often, authentically, into boorishness or sentimentality. The Outsider: My Autobiograpgy by Jimmy Connors – review 2013-05-27T06:30:01Z And one whose sentimentality leads to both eye rolls and mild chuckles. Theater Review: ‘Scrambled Eggs,’ at the Beckett Theater 2013-04-30T20:04:09Z And he adds a sweet dig to offset the sentimentality, as these performers realize that being in a spoof like this might mean “You’ll Never Work Again.” Review: ‘Forbidden Broadway’ Sticks It to the Great Woke Way 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z Which has meant creating an ethos of gross sentimentality and predatory bullying. Tony Hall, take a long knife to the parasites the BBC calls managers 2013-04-02T05:59:01Z Mr. Gergiev’s performance caught those qualities, especially the campy veneer, which is somehow crucial to preventing the music from slipping into sentimentality and keeping its strangeness on the surface. Music Review: Embracing the Ambiguity of Mahler?s Seventh 2011-02-24T23:27:09Z There is a difference between sentimentality and social awareness … though in the post-neoliberal era the very idea of social awareness is supposed to be wrong. Tate exhibition to pay homage to LS Lowry 2013-01-15T19:16:15Z As for the bands, fan pressure and sentimentality can be at the root of a reunion. Hangin' Up the Guitar: Do Bands Ever Retire? 2012-06-05T10:45:29Z What makes the series sing is its lack of sentimentality for the toys at hand. The Toys That Made Us: Netflix's show will make you rethink your childhood 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Our own sentimentalities will be twice removed before long. The Forgotten Novel That Inspired Homesickness for an Imaginary Land 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z He also studied the works of Correggio and Titian, absorbing some of the former's sentimentality and the latter's colour. Federico Barocci: divinity in the details 2013-02-16T09:01:00Z Rachman works at that confluence of poignancy and sentimentality popularized by “Little Miss Sunshine.” Book review: ‘The Rise & Fall of Great Powers,’ by Tom Rachman “Six” engages these tricky topics only commando-style: It hits them quickly and evacuates, focusing instead mainly on action, sentimentality and the relentless message, already plentiful in the news, that this is a sick, scary world. Review: ‘Six’ Follows Rough-Edged Navy SEALs in a War on Terror 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z But all is forgiven in a riot of tearful Hallmark sentimentality that Mr. Kim has the good sense to gently pillory. Review: ‘Along With the Gods’ Is a Fantasy Journey With C.G.I. at Every Turn 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z “You’ve got to be brave and believe,” one song advised, without cynicism or too much sentimentality. Music Review: Declan O’Rourke at the Irish Arts Center 2013-04-25T21:24:15Z That family crisis — inspired by a tragedy suffered by Neil Armstrong and his wife — would crash in a fireball of sentimentality were it not for Johncock’s extraordinary discipline. Set in the Space Race era, ‘The Last Pilot’ is nostalgic and heart-rending 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z There is something Spielbergian about his commitment to small characters and well-crafted performances, but he forswears Spielberg’s manipulations and sentimentality – real anguish is palpably present here. Midnight Special: the gritty road movie that takes a Spielbergian twist 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Both the IRA and the British military are portrayed here with an exacting lack of sentimentality. Review | Five thrillers to read now — and soon 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z May We Be Forgiven offers the excitements of a writer who will break any taboo – including the one around sentimentality. Women's prize for fiction: a darkly comic and addictively readable winner 2013-06-05T19:48:54Z Relevance, though, often covers a multitude of aesthetic faults — the soporific dullness of being earnest, relentless sentimentality or even a covert didacticism, typically stressing the myriad derelictions to which human beings are all prey. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z But in both cases subtler emotions are shuttled toward sentimentality by providential automobile accidents. Video: A Master?s Baby Steps 2011-03-19T01:24:54Z The subversive anti-war comedy avoided sentimentality and teachable moments in favor of cruel pranks and a more hardened cynicism. M*A*S*H at 50: the Robert Altman comedy that revels in cruel misogyny 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z They’re stretched out a little too thinly over the 10 half-hour episodes, and they don’t really compensate for the overall sentimentality and simplistic psychology. ‘Life & Beth’ Review: Further Inside Amy Schumer 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The movie so deftly mixes sentimentality, romance and bathos in just the right measures that her fans and maybe new ones will enjoy the new Miley. Miley Cyrus all grown up in new movie 2010-03-31T02:33:00Z Most similar films strain at the seams with bombast and sentimentality. Review: ‘Testament of Youth’ Recalls the Great War With Little Nostalgia 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z She used her sharp, slim body like a knife to cut through the play’s sentimentality and painted such a picture of survival that it made you feel uneasy about your own comforts. The Year in Theatre and Farewell to a Friend 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z It’s a comedy afraid of being too funny lest its macho sentimentality seem even more ridiculous than it is, and a drama afraid of appearing too serious lest you dismiss it as hogwash. Review: ‘Ashby’ Pairs a Retired C.I.A. Killer With a High School Nerd 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The story is a little like an Ashkenazi version of “Charlotte’s Web,” sentimentality deprived of salvation. The Great Gefilte-Fish Lie 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z “Fight” was more ambitious but more uneven, and “The Split” was more prone to sentimentality. Best TV Shows of 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z To see writing stripped of any sentimentality was thrilling to me as a young writer. ArtsBeat: L.A. Story: Karolina Waclawiak Talks About Her First Novel 2012-07-25T19:39:15Z As you might suspect, Ms. Jackson’s approach to acting appears to be unclouded by mysticism or sentimentality. Glenda Jackson on Quitting Parliament, Playing Lear and Returning to Broadway 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Many stories of diasporic families lead from the heart, playing on the sentimentality and nostalgia that so often define intergenerational narratives in mainstream Western literature. ‘Bestiary’ Offers a Compendium of Creatures, and Generations 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z And her journey from musical aspirant to disappointed wife to independent woman is rousing even when handled with predictable sentimentality. 'Beautiful' makes a fetching Los Angeles debut at the Pantages 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Maybe, for some, the broadcasting of sentimentality encourages a real release. Can We Escape the Diabolical Clichés of Coldplay? 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z And the 180-degree move the filmmaker pulls at the denouement isn’t so much a sellout as an opportunistic surrender to hipster sentimentality. ‘Some of Our Stallions’ Review: At Least They Don’t Shoot Horses 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z “They’re sentimental and fit into the hygienic sentimentality that spilled over in the early twentieth century from the Victorian period,” Nagoski said. Humanity’s Deepest Longings, Found in a Bird’s Song 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z The superbaddie in “Spectre” is, alas, a bore, enlivened only by our series sentimentality and Christoph Waltz working his accented villainy with a smile. Review: In ‘Spectre,’ Daniel Craig Returns as James Bond 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Many poets today strive for an appearance of unflappable coolness, and I greatly admire Zapruder’s willingness to skirt the boundaries of sentimentality in passages like this. Review | Matthew Zapruder’s ‘Father’s Day’ is firmly situated in our political moment 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z The Oxford art dictionary hedges its bets, defining kitsch as "art, objects or design considered to be in poor taste because of excessive garishness or sentimentality, but sometimes appreciated in an ironic or knowing way ..." Kitsch art: love it or loathe it? 2013-01-28T14:42:13Z Pinz is his happy place, a cocoon of sentimentality and nostalgia that reminds him of when he used to come here with his friend, Austin Peralta, the jazz piano prodigy. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Prada loves to examine our sentimentality about women and beauty, and in some respects this was her most assertive anti-fashion statement in awhile. Prada: Old Dears 2010-02-25T23:32:00Z On one hand they are an appealing embrace of sentimentality in our Disney- and Hallmark-infused world, where art is usually — and often disappointingly — skeptical of tender emotions. Loss permeates Jim Hodges' art; prepare for heartbreak 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z The way they are portrayed edges close to sentimentality, but the honest sympathy the film extends them is the element that gives the wider tableau its clarity and force. ‘Peterloo’ Review: Political Violence of the Past Mirrors the Present 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z But in “The Fever,” they are infused with a humble physical — and literary — poetry that scrapes away synthetic sentimentality. Review: ‘The Fever’ Finds That Friendliness Can Be Contagious 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z The movie is a characteristic Burton mix of whimsy, dark fantasy and sentimentality, but with more emotional sincerity and depth than some of his work. Broadway’s Big Fish: Small Potatoes 2013-10-10T09:45:50Z The comedy comes from the juxtaposition of the outrageous and vulgar physicality with jarring notes of sentimentality. Make Way for the Carnal Clowns of Stand-Up 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Then, around the time of “Hang Gliding,” with its description of flight — soaring tones, changing atmospheres — she came into her own voice and worked through her sentimentality. Music Review: Maria Schneider Plays Her Career at Birdland 2010-07-23T22:09:00Z It was very important to him, and to me, the film did not edge towards sentimentality. Robot & Frank: vision of the future? 2013-03-08T09:21:04Z The sole original is the title track, which condenses Lady A's inherent tepidness and sentimentality into three limp minutes. Lady Antebellum: On This Winter's Night – review 2012-12-13T17:10:24Z He was especially good at rendering gnarled, arthritic hands; “An Old Couple Feeding a Dog,” for all its sentimentality, does not stint on the physical realities of aging. Art Review: Inspiring Comparisons With Vermeer 2011-04-28T21:46:13Z In the 1980s, academics such as Mark Jefferson attacked sentimentality, and Neo-Expressionists gave sincerity a bad name through their sophomoric attempts at heroic paintings. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z A road movie of sorts, it steers clear of melodrama or sentimentality, but it also never risks hitting anything. Review: In ‘The Desert Bride,’ a Maid Hits the Road in Argentina 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z For the encore, Jenkins sang What a Wonderful World, undermining the sugary arrangement with some idiosyncratic shredding, yet at the same time revelling in the authentic sentimentality of Louis Armstrong's version, handkerchief and all. Gary Burton Quartet; Billy Jenkins and the BBC Band ? review 2010-11-23T23:00:00Z Nothing here feels cute, quaint or kitsch, though whimsy can fall that way, into a slough of soggy sentimentality sometimes laced with an emetic of twee. In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Plus, what baseball can symbolize — and how it can bring people together — is also conducive to sentimentality. Cleveland’s field of dreams: What hope means for long-suffering Indians fans 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z In Safe Haven he’s figured out a way to maximize the sentimentality from one of these peripheral deaths with a supernatural twist. Safe Haven: Something Borrowed, Something ‘Boo’ 2013-02-14T13:00:55Z The mood of morbid, smiling-through-tears sentimentality recalls “The Fault in Our Stars,” “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” and “If I Stay.” Review: ‘Before I Fall,’ a Melodramatic ‘Groundhog Day’ 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Hergé was a brilliant draftsman, and his drawings, devoid of cuteness and sentimentality, are a compelling mixture of simplicity and precise detail. Tintin Is a New Breed of Comic-Book Hero for Most Americans 2012-01-02T20:37:06Z Pinborough writes these women with a good ear, a lack of sentimentality and a sharp sense of how difficult intergenerational communication can be. Misfits, Stalkers and Kiddie Sociopaths: The Latest Thrillers 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z He charged it with sentimentality, and with damagingly clearing up "valuable ambiguities" by bringing them into "the idyllic sunshine of Christopher's successful escape into the life of a Kentish small-holder". Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z If Ayer’s pictures all combine ultra-violence, tough-minded realism and masculine sentimentality, at least the blend is distinctive, and bears little or no resemblance to the teen-oriented action fantasies that dominate Hollywood production. “Fury”: Brad Pitt brings the macho back to WWII in this relentless battle flick 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z For a silver anniversary, it was relatively low on sentimentality. 'Simpsons' invade the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z This is a lot to ask, and the film — through the languor of its scenes, the soft-spoken sentimentality of its dialogue — is a passive-aggressive exercise in emotional coercion. | ?Restless': ?Restless? With Mia Wasikowska - Review 2011-09-15T23:00:10Z It holds a lot of sentimentality for me because I grew up reading Charles Addams in the bathroom aged six pretending I was Morticia in the mirror. Anjelica Huston: how we made The Addams Family 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z This is one of the most inventive memoirs of recent years, poignant and improbable as it nimbly sidesteps all the pitfalls of animal sentimentality. Chloe Shaw on when she first asked, "What Is a Dog?": "I wrote from a place of specified grief" 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z The comparison illustrates the degree to which this material risks cliché and sentimentality. As a Daughter Is Born, a Young Mother Dies 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z But there are not many signs that the show is taking a turn toward anything better — more realism, more audacity, less sentimentality. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Smash,’ NBC Musical’s 2nd Season, With Jennifer Hudson 2013-02-04T23:16:15Z Her fiction is saved from didacticism or sentimentality by a keen ear for speech, an eye that is sensitive to the natural environment and by a cool scrutiny: "I'm a scientist," she says. A life in writing: Barbara Kingsolver 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z This is the novel’s most dynamic relationship, and if it slips a little toward sentimentality, it also provides some necessary vigor to what is otherwise a markedly interior story. Book review: ‘Black River,’ by S.M. Hulse 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Expanded by the writer-director Jacob Chase from a short, “Come Play” feels secondhand in its overarching conceit, its scare tactics and even its sentimentality. ‘Come Play’ Review: Alexa, Find Me a Derivative Thriller 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z He properly belonged to the earlier era of the music halls, an appropriate setting for his combination of agile body- and sometimes mawkish sentimentality. Sir Norman Wisdom obituary 2010-10-05T00:01:00Z At its simplest, the story seems to be one of a move from sentimentality to comedy. Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Bean also exactly nails a vein of persistent sentimentality about the psychedelic 60s. Smack Family Robinson – review 2013-04-04T16:39:26Z That piece is too famous for its own good and is often played with ineffective sentimentality. Review: After 55 Years, the Helsinki Philharmonic Returns to Carnegie Hall 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z This new outbreak, which I won’t diminish by describing, goes on a bit too long, but it’s deeply affecting, and brave as a piece of dramatic writing given the risk of sentimentality. ‘Eighth Grade’ Review: The Agonies and Glories of Growing Up 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The result is brisk and breezy, but “there are dangerous shoals of sentimentality” as Marius-Pete finds himself falling for his new family, Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Sneaky Pete’ and ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z There’s definitely more going on in “You’re the Worst” than clever put-downs and romantic sentimentality, though. Review: ‘You’re the Worst’ Heads Toward Happily Ever After. Maybe. 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z He was added at the suggestion of Columbus, who thought the film could do with a stronger dose of sentimentality. 25 fun facts about "Home Alone" 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Despite his yearslong connection to these works, Mr. Pauline showed no trace of sentimentality about selling them. Fire-Breathing Robots Bring Anarchy to a Chelsea Art Gallery 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z This biopic combines sentimentality, comedy and deep strangeness in equal measure. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The emotional associations are desire and melancholy, rendered through blank sentimentality. Review: Beach House Releases ‘Depression Cherry’ 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Never ones for between-song banter, the musicians expressed sentimentality almost exclusively through their instruments — and certain lyrics, imbued with new meaning and finality — for most of the night. The Grateful Dead Close Out Their Final Concert With Music and the Words 'Please, Be Kind' 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Without sentimentality or condescension, Smith follows him across the South, through periods of peace and sparks of terror, months of romance and long, unending trials of despair. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z This conscientious attention balances out the movie’s occasional lapses into sentimentality. ‘Breaking’ Review: A Bank Holdup by an Ex-Marine, for Benefits 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The Make Poverty History campaign was the perfect exemplar of this bullying sentimentality. Digested read: Spoilt rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality by Theodore Dalrymple 2010-08-30T21:29:00Z Here the sentimentality of Longfellow’s familiar words is countered by the slyly playful melody and undulant wrong-note accompaniment. Music Review: Marilyn Horne Celebrates Young Singers at Zankel Hall 2012-01-21T00:03:22Z Her death-obsessed character functions in the film as a kind of perversely adorable memento mori, deflecting the looming specter of sentimentality and providing a constant reminder that not all change is for the good. DVD: ?Meet Me in St. Louis,? on Blu-Ray 2011-12-09T21:48:05Z The figurative windows, however, are fatally infected by Victorian sentimentality. Art Review: Louis C. Tiffany Works at Museum of Biblical Art 2012-12-31T23:14:26Z It’s tricky to pull off, and Butterworth has a way of giving sentimentality a dry, cynical edge that doesn’t dispose you to care about his characters as much as you need to. ‘Mammals’ Review: James Corden Gets Back to What He Does Best 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z As if to acknowledge the resemblance, the team sang the Carpenters’ signature hit, “Close to You,” during which Ms. Mendez gently mocked its cozy bug-in-a-rug sentimentality with grimaces of comic disbelief. Klendez Sings Across the Spectrum at 54 Below 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z There are smiles and tears, love and affirmations, a few funny jokes and a lot of easy sentimentality. Movie Review: ‘Parental Guidance,’ With Billy Crystal and Bette Midler 2012-12-24T22:52:20Z But this time, the ratio of tastelessness to sentimentality has been reversed. ‘Champions’ Review: Following the Playbook 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z He deals within reason with the excesses of nostalgia and sentimentality. With L.A. Opera's 'Moby-Dick,' call it a success 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z The sonatas confidently negotiate the lines between sentimentality and astringency, modernism and Romanticism, that composers are still dealing with. Classical Recordings: ?Ives: Sonatas for Violin and Piano? ? Review 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z He barks orders, sings a shanty, indulges in sentimentality and turns his yowling mouth into an abyss. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Many critics argue that people’s personalities exist on a spectrum — people possess varying degrees of both introversion and extroversion, logic and sentimentality — and therefore the Myers-Briggs test is an oversimplification. Analysis | Four letters can say a lot: Why people put their Myers-Briggs personality types in their Tinder profiles 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z In a deceptively sturdy performance, Ms. Hedwall presents Anne without any misty veils of sentimentality. Review: At Hartford Stage, Expectations of Love and the Weight of Memory in ‘An Opening in Time’ 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The director uses that same restraint to hit the hopeful to better effect, keeping the film humanistic in uplifting ways without ever drifting into cheap sentimentality. A heartwarming soul is the truth behind 'The Good Lie' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z He loathed sentimentality — he was very Eastern European that way — and a really overwrought scene would elicit an “oh, brother.” Les Plesko to be celebrated at UCLA 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Another issue, according to LaSalle, is that "Falcone has trouble maintaining a specific tone — the movie wobbles back and forth between sentimentality and silliness, sometimes even within the same scene." Melissa McCarthy road comedy 'Tammy' hits the skids, reviews say 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z There are people who want to brag about uniqueness, size or sentimentality. Diamond ring loses sparkle among peers 2014-04-28T04:00:00Z The Firebird’s Lullaby, though phrased with expansive freedom, was elegant and devoid of sentimentality. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Russian Stravinskyat Avery Fisher Hall 2010-04-22T22:10:00Z A mini midcentury movie musical, it’s not quite satire; it’s a celebration, having fun with romantic sentimentality without mocking it. Jan Hooks (1957-2014): An Appreciation 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Throughout his career, Mr. Williams was unabashed about his inclination for sentimentality. Roger Williams, Pianist Known for Sentimental Songs, Dies at 87 2011-10-09T16:23:03Z Mr. Harrison is as interested in his profit margin as he is in the history of the items he buys, and his on-camera affability rarely shades into sentimentality. Television: Redeeming Value of the Reality Show ?Pawn Stars? 2010-06-05T01:56:00Z Criticised for sentimentality, his only defence was to argue that the idea of ending with the executions had struck him as too brutal. Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - rereading 2011-08-05T09:00:06Z It would have been easy for the film to lapse into polemic, or mawkish sentimentality; it did neither, treading a fine line between the two and ending in hubris. TV review: The Promise, You Don't Know Jack and Storyville: American Idol ? Reagan 2011-02-07T08:00:05Z Never a political band, it nonetheless articulated a powerful protest — against sentimentality, stupidity, false consciousness and positive thinking — that would sow the seeds of punk rock and later rebellions. ‘The Velvet Underground’ Review: And Me, I’m in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z But sentimentality is not always a counterfeit emotion. Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z In fact, whenever plot became more about individual character rather than the crew of Roger’s “boat,” the show tilted toward sentimentality and familiarity. This is the only way “Mad Men” should end 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z In the wrong directorial hands, this sort of intervention could easily have curdled into sentimentality. Review: In ‘Amour,’ Putting a Palme d’Or Winner Onstage 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z "Son of Good Fortune" recalls Souvankham Thammavongsa's short story series "How to Pronounce Knife" in its critical and whimsical observations of American life, but wasting little time on sentimentality. New page-turners heat up our summer reading: "Blacktop Wasteland," "The Only Good Indians" and more 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Rather, it’s the audacity of taking a stock sentimental situation, applying a sentimental score, then adding a sound of potentially greater sentimentality. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z To its credit, Great Ormond Street avoided the sentimentality and emotive cliches that tend to accompany camera crews to children's wards. Great Ormond Street; Panorama, Spoilt Rotten; Young, Autistic and Stagestruck; The World's Strangest Plastic Surgery and Me; Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z As their world expands, the clipped straightforwardness of events becomes almost mesmerizing, the reading compulsive and the direct language a guard against sentimentality. Jane Smiley’s elegiac look at an American family in ‘Early Warning’ 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z Rhimes wants us to see Anna as both sociopath and victim, in a balance that remains uncertain but that pulls the show’s tone toward sentimentality in later episodes. ‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z But there's a difference between dramatic and drama, as there is between sentiment and sentimentality. Rewind TV: The Hour; The Apprentice; Show Me the Funny; Imagine; Richard Hammond's Journey to the Centre of the Planet; Twenty Twelve ? review 2011-07-23T23:06:24Z One of Louis C. K.’s gifts is the ability to skate dangerously close to sentimentality while using his comic instincts to stay on the side of poignancy and honest emotion. Watching the Season 4 Finale of ‘Louie’ 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z She said that sentimentality is an attitude that does not confront reality squarely in the face. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Look at Schindler's List and the sentimentality of its finale, revealing that, in movies, only the survivors count. Author, author: Antony Beevor on faction 2011-02-19T00:05:34Z She exuded bone-deep affection and respect for vaudeville stylings, in which impeccably controlled artifice became a conduit for sentimentality as well as rowdy humor. Review: ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Is Bright, Brassy and All Bette 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z That is, up until the two-thirds mark, when the movie paints itself into a corner and presses the “earnest sentimentality” eject button before managing a narrow escape. ‘Joy Ride’ Review: A Raunch-Com Roller Coaster 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z “Bewilderment” isn’t cozy, exactly, but it’s got a nubbly sentimentality. In ‘Bewilderment,’ Richard Powers Smothers Nature With Piety 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z Hero in turn rejects what she sees as Rosalyn’s simple-minded sentimentality: “A heart was something you could buy on the street, six to a skewer.” A Debut Novel Traces the Filipino Experience in the United States 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z For me, caught up in my own sentimentality, this was the final stroke. Critic?s Notebook: Bach Passions in Performance for Holy Week 2012-04-04T21:56:13Z This loud dispute is necessary for the reconciliation that follows, one that tips over into sentimentality. ‘Stan & Ollie’ Review: Laurel and Hardy, a Double Act as Romance 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Horibuchi’s virtuoso paintings examine the amateur and monumentalize the ephemeral and the tender without any sentimentality. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Once published, readers fell in love with their combination of sentimentality and cynicism. The enduring allure of A.E. Housman’s poetry 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z "Shrek"'s frequent aims at the Mouse House's recognisable narrative formula and saccharine sentimentality were deemed a pointed dig at Katzenberg's former employers too. "Shrek" at 20: celebrating the film’s unique brand of animated anarchy and sardonic irreverence 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Like the soldiers at the front, the children suffer through boredom and disappointment, and they’re alternately embarrassed and amused by their parents’ sudden fears and sentimentalities. John Boorman Tribute at Film Forum Goes Beyond ‘Deliverance’ 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Ramone’s vocals remain almost the same, though a shred of hope shines through thanks to minor harmonies, vintage handclaps, and a guitar that splits the difference between grime and sentimentality. Joey Ramone's Posthumous "...ya know?": You'll Almost Wish You Didn't 2012-05-22T10:45:20Z Postcoitally, he asks if she’d like to go to a music festival, and she smacks him for spoiling the moment with his sentimentality. “Yellowstone,” Reviewed: Kevin Costner Rasps an Ode to Cowboy Toughness 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z As such, it traffics in a brusque urbanist sentimentality that isn’t immune to or afraid of cliché. ‘Soul’ Review: Pixar’s New Feature Gets Musical, and Metaphysical 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z A rabble-rouser with a gift for severe sentimentality, Morgan Wallen is torn between being a Nashville disrupter or a smooth cog. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z It's cosy in two ways: the world and values we see destroyed are depicted with considerable sentimentality; and the narrator-hero has numerous little pangs about doing the decent thing, like helping other people. Jane Rogers's top 10 cosy catastrophes 2012-07-05T08:22:05Z He isn’t unhappy, but his features seem shrouded in melancholy, a condition Rasmussen addresses with sympathy rather than sentimentality. ‘Flee’ Review: From Kabul to Copenhagen 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z A similar morbid romanticism floats around her, an aura of tragic mystery deepened by her wry, impatient resistance to sentimentality. Review: In ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,’ a Comfort Zone That Cannot Last 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z To hear Ms. Manchester sing it at Café Carlyle on Wednesday evening was to rediscover a ballad that for all its stentorian sentimentality still carries considerable emotional clout. Melissa Manchester at Café Carlyle 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Though six years younger than Ireland, Butterworth was a much more harmonically and melodically imaginative composer, who never resorted to Ireland's tub-thumping platitudes and Edwardian sentimentality. The Complete John Ireland Songbook: Volume 1 – review 2013-07-11T21:30:00Z In one of the best essays yet written about the film, author and activist Chris Hedges reminds us that this kind of sentimentality is always to be distrusted. Hollywood has abandoned war satire for the likes of the super-solemn “American Sniper” 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z Well and good — Dixie sentimentality is woven into the fabric of American culture. | 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z Theon, in command at Winterfell, has no sentimentality about children, and what he does to prove his power is absolutely gut-wrenching–and, even knowing how cruel the world of GoT can be, difficult to watch. Game of Thrones Watch: Prisoners and Free Folk 2012-05-14T10:18:36Z Moments of lyricism were all the more captivating for being offered without sentimentality. Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Spotlights Albéric Magnard 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z It’s rare that a lack of sentimentality cohabitates with such a wild appreciation of the present. Lena Dunham Pays Homage to Her Late Literary Hero Diana Athill 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The resulting novel from Grey’s visit, “The Call of the Canyon,” is so rife with sentimentality, jingoism and sexism that it’s barely readable today, with one notable exception — the searing passages about the land itself. In Sedona, Ariz., biking a landscape that embodies the romance of the American West 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z For me, the final moments of their relationship are a startling, even magnificent repudiation of sentimentality and an insistence on sex. Looking for casual sex? Head for the cinema 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z In this episode and all the others, there’s a courageous lack of sentimentality, an absolute refusal to allow good and evil to be distributed along color lines. ‘Homegoing,’ by Yaa Gyasi: A bold tale of slavery for a new ‘Roots’ generation 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Strikingly honest, lyrical, untouched by sentimentality, “In Other Words” chronicles as philosophical and quotidian a courtship with a language as Ovid’s “The Art of Love” does with amore itself. ‘In Other Words’ review: Jhumpa Lahiri’s love letter to Italian 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z In eighth grade, my chorus sang “Sunrise, Sunset,” while our parents sobbed and we middle-schoolers rolled our eyes at its sentimentality. A ‘Tradition’ Omission: I Had Never Seen ‘Fiddler’ Until Now 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z It’s not mere hype or sentimentality to propose that the victorious Biden cut a figure akin to the kind, purposeful character Harper Lee created and Aaron Sorkin reinvigorated on Broadway in “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Perspective | In Biden victory, a cast change: Out with Richard III, in with Atticus Finch 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z I imagined that the film might skillfully edge toward the precipice of sentimentality without tumbling over, and that I would likely shed a tear or two as the end credits rolled. I Accidentally Walked Into “Border,” and It Kind of Changed My Life 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Most of the band’s success had to do with the music: massive tunes that toggled between brashness and sentimentality, the biggest hits ready-made for pub sing-alongs. Oasis and the Fading Dream of the Nineties 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Her plucky rejection of the usual “cancer story” sentiments becomes a potent form of sentimentality in its own right, and her brave refusal of self-pity ensures the audience’s infinite sympathy. ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ Sets Out to Make You Cry 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z What I liked most about Living in the Memory Room was its lack of sentimentality. Rewind radio: Wimbledon; Living in the Memory Room; Shaun Keaveny 2013-07-06T23:05:49Z “He was a state-of-the-art, media-savvy journalist,” Dr. Yochelson said, “but in his sentimentality and in appealing to the Christian conscience he was a creature of the Victorian, rather than the Progressive, era.” Jacob Riis Photographs Still Revealing New York’s Other Half 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Weber’s acute sense of morality was also complex; she repudiated simplistic sentimentality and wouldn’t allow a hero to be “a dummy concocted of all the impossible virtues a scenario writer could imagine.” “A Real Director Should Be Absolute”: Lois Weber’s Prescient Thoughts on Filmmaking a Century Ago 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z His whole gorgeously evocative book notably avoids sentimentality and instead probes for wisdom and clarity. Fall Back Into the School Year With Books by, for and About Teachers 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z But when mocking law and order, familial sentimentality and mercantile vulgarity—not from below but, so to speak, from above—Chaplin sacrificed the popular touch. Movie of the Week: “Limelight” 2015-06-06T04:00:00Z And it gives the whole story a latent sentimentality that bursts through in the final episode. Review: The Graying of Samuel L. Jackson 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Jones has an eye for the melancholic resonance of outmoded craftwork and over-indulgent decoration, for romantic escapism betrayed by needlepoint sentimentality. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-22T00:06:54Z Lacquered with sentimentality and framed by notions of the city's fabled past disseminated by Hollywood movies, the postcards conjure the glamorous heart of a lost city. Flashback L.A.: 'Postcard Views, Then and Now' captures lost city 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z These are behaviors and phrases that popular culture mines for laughs and sentimentality. Perspective | Why do so many dads think it’s their duty to monitor their daughters’ virginity? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z With its implication that the world’s problems might begin to be solved by one Arab-Jewish coupling, “The Names of Love” succumbs to glib sentimentality. | 'The Names of Love': You?re a Fascist? Let?s Hop in Bed! 2011-06-23T22:23:05Z Gentry's earthy vigour and pinpoint detail steer her away from the marshlands of sentimentality. Hidden treasures: Bobbie Gentry – The Delta Sweete 2013-01-15T12:24:59Z But “City of Bohane” was also, in its thinner moments, filmic in the wrong ways, like a Quentin Tarantino reboot of “West Side Story,” its violence and lurking sentimentality correlated. Review: In ‘Beatlebone,’ an Imagined Trip With John Lennon 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z These pages repel sentimentality on a cellular level, but how delicately Millet portrays little Jack. Review | Lydia Millet’s ‘A Children’s Bible’ is a blistering classic 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z For someone who loathes sentimentality in most parts of her life, you revelled in it with Rex. Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Without sentimentality or condescension, Smith follows him across the South, through periods of peace and sparks of terror, months of romance and long, unending trials of despair. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Hobson played a mechanical rendition of the Chopin, seemingly determined to banish even the slightest whiff of sentimentality. Music Review: Chopin and Schumann, at 200, and Their Inspirations 2010-08-25T21:13:00Z Mr. Peck succumbs to something else in “Thank You, New York”: sentimentality. Dancing on Grass and Concrete at New York City Ballet 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Atwood and King share a certain sensitivity and warmth without a whiff of sentimentality. Coming of Age, Whether She’s Ready or Not 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z That was akin to a gusher of sentimentality. Perspective | Melania Trump’s convention speech was a moment of calm amid the Trump family rant 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z That sort of sentimentality is not for everyone. On Silver Screen, a Bit of Gold 2014-02-04T23:04:55Z But turning this into television involves a level of manipulation, sentimentality and just plain cheesiness that for some will render the proceedings difficult to watch. Television Review: Sponsors Also Star in School Makeover Reality Show 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z Mr. Kriegel recalled telling his wife that he wanted “The Long Walk Home” to be “free of the sentimentality and cant and papier-mâché religiosity usually found in such books.” Leonard Kriegel, 89, Dies; Wrote Unflinchingly About His Disability 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Ferrante is credited as a writer on the series, and like her novels, the adaptation has a sharp sense of time and place without nostalgia or sentimentality. Review: ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Is an Intimate Epic 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z But the film’s coup de grâce — Nathanson’s tearful change of heart upon seeing his first sonogram — dispenses with political arguments for crude sentimentality. ‘Roe v. Wade’ Review: A Physician’s Change of Heart 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z There isn’t a trace of sentimentality in either musician. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Like “Skin,” “Lessons” has a dense, historically contrived libretto, offering a callous plot that hacks away at any sentimentality you might have left about power or love. Review: An Opera’s Exquisite Brutality Arrives in America 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Benjamin Filene, the associate director of curatorial affairs at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, is taking a broader view as his team of 45 curators try to separate significance from sentimentality. How Will We Remember the Pandemic? Museums Are Already Deciding 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z It’s a standard-issue Hollywood blend of Orientalism and sentimentality, roughly two parts romantic adventure, two parts family weeper and one part “war is hell” odyssey. What Armenian genocide? “The Water Diviner,” Russell Crowe’s disgraceful Turkish fantasy 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z The effect isn’t to undercut the ambient sentimentality, though, but to highlight it. Review: ‘Little Voice’ Is a Twee Musical Fairy Tale 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z A splash of topicality is always welcome, but only if it is leavened by sentimentality and structural tidiness. ?Next to Normal,? Drama Pulitzer Winner, Is in Some Way 2010-04-13T21:11:00Z There's even a hint of sentimentality about it. TV review: Monroe, The British at Work 2011-03-10T22:05:01Z Relentless bleakness, what Mantel may deem the opposite of sentimentality, is its own limitation, a shadow sentimentality that also omits at the author's whim large swatches of life: the loveliness and mercy. Hilary Mantel's short-story collection long on controversy 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z “For me, it has that sentimentality around it,” she said of New Queer Cinema. The Day New Queer Cinema Said: Let’s Do This 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z It provides a fantasy space for listeners to indulge the notion that things used to be better — and it’s a much more suitable arena for parsing that irrational sentimentality than, say, politics. Still think today’s country music sounds fake? Get real. 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z He avoids sentimentality for Scott, but, in his present tense narrative he falls headfirst into an sentiment crevasse. Guardian First Book Award reader nominations: Dead Men by Richard Pierce 2012-07-18T14:04:46Z Mr. Anthony doesn’t make records without serious sentimentality, live and wriggling. New Music: Marc Anthony Returns to Salsa; Chris Morrissey Crosses Lines 2013-07-22T21:41:19Z It was stark, shot-and-a-beer medicine, laid out without apology or sentimentality. Concert review: Dave Alvin at City Winery 2012-08-22T06:22:00Z There is an absence of sentimentality, of preachiness, in both Mulligan and his book. Andy Mulligan talks Trash 2010-12-20T14:00:00Z Scott called it “a disciplined, impassioned effort to bring clarity to a volatile moment, to dispense with the sentimentality and revisionism that too often cloud movies about the ’60s and about the politics of race.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ and Shark Week 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Yet what stands out about this episode is how readily it pushes two particular buttons: the one marked “unease,” and the one labeled “sentimentality.” ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 7: Absent Friends 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z The music ended abruptly, with no sentimentality: a good, mysterious uppercut. Music Review: Wayne Horvitz, and Sax and Percussion, at the Stone 2010-04-08T22:12:00Z The mood gets lighter at times, but “What Do We Need to Talk About?” never lapses into broad comedy, or sentimentality. Review | A play premieres online — and it couldn’t be more relevant to how we are right now 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z As in much of Laurents’s work, the tone of “Waltz” wobbles between sentimentality and cynicism. Review: Passion Pursued in ‘Do I Hear a Waltz?’ 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Houellebecq, whose work is saturated with brutality, resentment and sentimentality, understood what it meant to be an incel long before the term became common. A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Unemployed, depressed and allergic to sentimentality, Anna offers a vicious critique of her own experience in a poisonous male culture. Review | 3 novels that aim for the heart of America’s love affair with guns 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z It had become affiliated with manufactured culture, with the crowd, and with the sentimentality and repetitive stylization that crowds, in their quest for a common identity, often crave. A Better Way to Think About the Genre Debate 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z So in April, perhaps as a form of damage control, the duo released its debut album, “Memories . . . Do Not Open,” doubling down on the overblown sentimentality that made them famous. Review | The Chainsmokers aren’t trying to be good. They just want you to think they are. 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Then, returning to his desk, he gave a seemingly extemporaneous monologue, one that veered from gallows humor to sentimentality and was full of awkward pauses and deep breaths. For Stephen Colbert, a Very Uncomfortable Election Night 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z That sort of measured drama without melodrama, being able to express a broad range of emotions without resorting to sentimentality. With ‘Tigertail,’ a Filmmaker Hopes to Comfort Asian-Americans 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Even Gorman’s poem couldn’t avoid familiar valedictory sunniness, and often purported “healing” works devolve into feel-good “Chicken Soup for the Soul” sentimentality or are too on the nose. Perspective | Words of wisdom or wishful thinking? The problem with new books that aim to heal us. 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z Both allowed him to remain in the spotlight, embrace his image as an elder statesman and avoid competing with a new wave of artists who were refreshing the movement with sentimentality and grit. Daddy Yankee, Reggaeton’s First Global Star, Steps Aside 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z What would be the purpose of such a work of fiction beyond rank sentimentality or tasteless exploitation? Perspective | How 9/11 altered the fiction landscape in 13 novels 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z There’s also the clunky dialogue, confusing detours and cheesy sentimentality. Valerian: why Luc Besson is the unsung hero of world cinema 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Those are challenges Gallen understands and presents here without a shred of exoticism or sentimentality. Review | Make room for ‘Big Girl, Small Town’ 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z If sentimentality of this sort is the palliative you crave, then “Bright Star” will strike you as an apt prescription. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s new musical is pretty big on pretty 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z But one would think a certain sentimentality or nostalgia on the eve of Keillor’s final turn as host of “A Prairie Home Companion” would be inevitable. Garrison Keillor reflects at the Hollywood Bowl, rehearsing for final show: 'I just want it to be good' 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z It’s not exactly a radical departure from French Quarter fare, but it’s enough for Davis, who happily sings along, surrendering to the swing and sentimentality. | 'Treme': David Simon?s New HBO Series: After Katrina 2010-04-08T21:43:00Z Admittedly I chose my last dishwasher for one of the worst possible reasons: sentimentality. Design: Respect for the Humble Workhorse 2011-06-27T09:38:23Z Scott says "The Judge" is populated by "fine actors encouraged to graze in a meadow overgrown with thickets of plot and clumps of easy sentimentality." 'The Judge': Well-acted but guilty of sentimentality, reviews say 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z But with subtle prose and sardonic humor Ms. Olafsdottir upends expectations, steering clear of sentimentality throughout. Stephen May’s ‘Wake Up Happy Every Day,’ and More 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Where there's moments of sentimentality, we will always try and undercut them somehow so it doesn't feel too saccharine. "All Creatures Great and Small" writer on bringing "bittersweet" comforts of WWII to the Dales 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Nor did Wittgenstein share the average war memoirist’s sentimentality for his fellow soldiers. Wittgenstein’s ‘Private Notebooks’ Shed Some Light on an Enigmatic Genius 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z How to make something quintessentially American, Graham mused, without evoking “a mural in a Middle Western railway station”? How to convey “gentleness without sentimentality” and “the simplicities of a telescoped day,” from morning to nightfall? Martha Graham Studio Celebrates ‘Appalachian Spring’ 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The sentimentality never gets overpowering, thanks to a cast that includes Toby Jones as an overextended banker and Shabana Azmi as an overbearing Pakistani matriarch. 2 TV Shows, 4 Books and 7 Viral Videos for Your Long Weekend 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z And “Lawless” seems unsure of just how tough it wants to be, bouncing between rollicking backwoods humor and graphic violence, with a dollop of good-old-boys sentimentality thrown in for good measure. Movie Review: ‘Lawless,’ With Shia LaBeouf, a Film by John Hillcoat 2012-08-28T12:00:00Z I’m no big fan of animal movies, but “Water for Elephants” could have used some spritzes of “National Velvet” or “Lassie Come Home” sentimentality. | 'Water for Elephants': Love Triangle Sideshow, a Circus?s Main Attraction 2011-04-21T23:29:36Z Many of us who are now adults grew up with his films and cherished them with the fond sentimentality French novelists reserve for madeleines. Times move pretty fast! Rewatching 80s favourites in the age of #metoo 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The deadpan style of the acting functions as a vaccine against sentimentality, but there is no doubting the sincerity of this movie’s motives or the effectiveness of its methods. Review: In ‘The Other Side of Hope,’ an Old-Fashioned Humanist Fable 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The movie’s clear and brisk aesthetic matches the strong and facile sentimentality of its message. “Patriots Day,” a Police Procedural for the Age of Surveillance 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z This kind of gauzy sentimentality runs counter to the pointed analysis in the rest of her book. American Blindness, Abroad and at Home 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Some cynics will regard these rituals as proof of the frequently alleged tendency of theatrical people towards excessive sentimentality. The final curtain: how best to bid farewell to much-loved actors? 2013-04-08T14:07:11Z The books are all sunlight and unfettered sentimentality. With ‘Spring,’ Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Latest Project Comes Into Focus 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z It also heightens O'Neill's Conradian awareness of the sea as a tragic force which shapes human destinies: something that becomes rivetingly clear at the climax and rescues it from sentimentality. Anna Christie ? review 2011-08-09T22:12:00Z They’re locked into their sentimentality and carry a promise that Mr. Petty will never change much. Music Review: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers at Madison Square Garden 2010-07-30T21:22:00Z The viewer might see the fall from rural poverty to urban destitution as a tragedy, but the former sharecroppers are more interested in survival than sentimentality. ‘Happy as Lazzaro’ Review: This Modern Fairy Tale Is an Instant Classic 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Her prose, so ordinary line by line, nevertheless accumulates into scenes that rush from one emergency to the next — starving! beating! flooding! — pausing only for respites of sentimentality. Review | ‘The Four Winds’ is Kristin Hannah’s next inevitable bestseller. Don’t forget the tissues. 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z It gestures in their direction and then changes the subject, and settles into a soft cushion of masculine sentimentality at the end. Review: ‘Tag,’ You’re It. Playing the Long Game Into Middle Age. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Suggestions of real pain remained safely hidden in the pop song sentimentality and running mascara. Dance Review: Ann Liv Young as Sleeping Beauty at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2012-01-13T23:31:08Z And like its predecessor, it appears determined to avoid the pitfalls of sentimentality that so often plague the genre. The Trailer for the Next Teen Cancer Movie Might Not Make You Cry 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z But in "Blue Valentine" the results are on the screen, in compassionate, nuanced performances that are utterly free of condescension or sentimentality. Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams: Cannes' hottest couple 2010-05-21T15:40:00Z Mawkish odes to home and family alternate with sequences in which, as in Dickens, sentimentality achieves the transcendence and catharsis of tragedy. The New Season DVDs: New DVDs: ?Citizen Kane,? ?Going Places,? ?Birth of a Nation? 2011-09-18T00:13:03Z Critics sometimes mocked her for this sentimentality, “and she would be stung,” Cohen notes. There’s more to the Nora Ephron we thought we knew 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The lasting effect of that is perhaps in his music’s admirable lack of sentimentality. Review: On John Moreland’s ‘High on Tulsa Heat,’ World-Weariness and Clarity 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Did Sandra Bullock deserve her Oscar, or is the Academy guilty of rewarding a mushy, sugar-coated slice of sentimentality? You review: The Blind Side 2010-03-29T15:01:00Z The relationship that develops between these two cagey outcasts is fraught with mystery and suspicion — and a degree of grudging affection that never slips into sentimentality. Review | The tale of a disaffected teen on the run from a crime he didn’t commit 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z In fact, if there is any problem with McCarthy's weight it is that it is tempting to use it not for laughs but for sentimentality, which almost prevented her from becoming a star. All hail Melissa McCarthy, Hollywood's indestructible comic superwoman 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z What emerges is a story that searchingly inhabits the lives of women without sentimentality or self-pity. A 1970s Japanese Novel Leading the Way to Ferrante 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z I can’t stand musicals; I can’t stand silly sentimentality about the halcyon past of a sport so alive in the present. Basketball, the musical 2012-12-16T16:00:00Z “The Morning Show,” with its big stars, and “Ted Lasso,” with its pandemic-salving sentimentality, have gotten the attention. Winter TV Preview: 21 Shows to Watch 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z “There is some sentimentality about seeing a collection that was so tightly together and in four different houses split apart,” David Rockefeller Jr. said in a telephone interview. It Didn’t Hit $1 Billion, but Rockefeller Sale Still Set a Record 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z “Father Christmas Is Back” peddles a strange mix of sentimentality and sourness, as all the members of the Christmas-Hope clan, for that is their name, can’t stop bickering and insulting each other. Netflix Holiday Movies Ranked, From Tree Toppers to Lumps of Coal 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z What links Mr. Lee’s early films to those of his predecessors is the desire to explore the details of African-American life without cant or sentimentality. ‘Tell It Like It Is,’ a Chapter of New York From 1968 to ’86 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Like many of Lynch's films, it's an old-fashioned story of good and evil, stemming from a core of sentimentality that has corroded. Twin Peaks still marks the summit of TV soundtracks 2010-03-25T12:28:00Z The scene goes a long way toward redeeming “Touching Home” from facile sentimentality. | 'Touching Home': Ed Harris Stars as an Alcoholic Father 2010-05-13T22:53:00Z The novel’s pockets of sentimentality are offset by streaks of viciousness, accurately reflecting how we tend to remember our pasts: happy times bathed in a distorting glow, miserable times diminished and disowned. In This Novel of Female Friendship, Birds of a Feather Drift Apart 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z But Dion’s gift is sincerity: her slightly nasal voice swells as she plays up the schmaltz and powers through the sentimentality. Why I love… Céline Dion 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Yet as good as such confidence can feel, it can also be deadly, Samet writes, feeding a “pernicious American sentimentality” that “short-circuits reason.” ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z Just when the prose teeters on the edge of sentimentality, though, he pulls it back with humor. A Comic Coming-of-Age Novel Laced With Social Commentary 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Welcome to the BuzzFeed-ification of MTV — the music channel’s attempt to reel in youngish viewers by sparking their sentimentality for the recent past. MTV Classic Is Nostalgia for Millennials. But Do They Want TV? 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z This could easily have toppled over into gushy sentimentality. The Good Place: was this the most devastating TV finale ever? 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Or should we say, “Touché”? Here we’ve been allowing you and the play in which you appear to keep pushing our emotional buttons as if we were programmed robots of sentimentality. Review: ‘Dead Poets Society,’ Starring Jason Sudeikis as the Idealistic Teacher 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z But he treats it not with sentimentality or exaggeration, but with uncompromising lucidity; hence its, well, bleakness. Cancer Haunts a Composer’s Life and Work 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z In the end, Hartnell's script rushes to pile everything in, as the story slants into melodrama and sentimentality. 1920s Montana comes to life in Book-It's 'Prairie Nocturne' 2012-02-17T18:44:05Z I refrained from making Mrs Gadny an object of pity, a plaster saint, because I loathed the patronising sentimentality that was then an essential ingredient in fictional depictions of old age. Author, author: Paul Bailey 2011-01-15T00:05:47Z And the boldness of Taylor’s response is how he takes it seriously enough to risk sentimentality: soldiers and the girls they’re about to leave. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Only a plaintive anthem sung by soldiers on the eve of battle stands out, partly because its sentimentality has little to do with the central love triangle. ‘Cyrano’ Review: Who Wrote the Book of Love? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z In the end, it's not the sentimentality but the monumentality that matters. Stephen Sondheim: Gershwin great? It ain't necessarily so 2010-11-24T21:31:00Z Is the support of the vast majority of the artistic community for libraries 'sentimentality'? Libraries 'have had their day', says Horrible Histories author 2013-02-13T14:38:14Z There was a lot of herself invested in Mrs St Maugham - a lack of sentimentality, a great pragmatism, incredible loyalty and a huge heart. Forsyte Saga actress Tyzack dies 2011-06-28T15:04:27Z As Carol, Danner shows off a cool elegance — she's casually beautiful and at ease with herself, never giving in to sentimentality. Blythe Danner steps out with star turn in 'I'll See You in My Dreams' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Then she spiked the sentimentality with a joke: "Those are just the co-stars I liked." The genius of Jodie Foster's speech 2013-01-14T16:48:00Z "There are inherently emotions that are going on in a road trip. The original was about undermining those emotions and sentimentality, and even the family unit," Goldstein said. Will the new 'Vacation' make Clark Griswold proud? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z After the accident, the portrayal deepens, and delivers substantial emotional dividends without yielding to facile sentimentality. Review: ‘Bleed for This’ Is a Boxing Movie That Gets Boxing 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It’s gratifying, reading through an interview with Sultan published in the exhibition catalogue, that he avoids the cant and sentimentality that would probably be essential to this work if it were being created today. Review | Disaster was his message, but then catastrophes became commonplace 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Moments in his stories that walk up to, or just beyond, the line of acceptable public sentimentality are often followed by blunt humor. The Human Comedy of Adam Wade 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Undoubtedly, a large part of the show's appeal is sentimentality. From The Returned to Broadchurch to Game of Thrones: the best TV of 2013 2013-07-28T18:00:01Z “Pufahl’s voice is strikingly solid, timeworn but not nostalgic, as she unravels a cinematic story that avoids genre clichés or sentimentality.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z In this vibrant staging, with adorable child performers as the von Trapp children, the musical’s themes of faith, community and resistance to tyranny, which often seem smothered in sentimentality, felt real and timeless. She Made Glimmerglass a True Festival. Now She’s Moving On. 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z In his masterly study of "The Beethoven Quartets," musicologist Joseph Kerman, while rightly saluting this rather self-consciously affecting movement's ambition and arduousness, puts an unerring finger on the whiff of sentimentality that undermines those qualities. Review: More Olympian music-making at Quilcene's Olympic Music Festival 2010-08-09T17:48:00Z The slow movement unfolded at a steady, almost insistent clip with no trace of sentimentality, yet nice bloom and lyricism in the melodic lines. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Major Return Played Safe 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z “Has the prevailing memory of the ‘Good War,’ shaped as it has been by nostalgia, sentimentality and jingoism, done more harm than good to Americans’ sense of themselves and their country’s place in the world?” Has the Myth of the ‘Good War’ Done Us Lasting Harm? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Even here there was no sentimentality, just a thicket of counterpoint and glistening harmonies, like a Scarlatti sonata. Review: The Whitney’s Conlon Nancarrow Festival is an Enchanting Tribute 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z This theory is devoid of sentimentality, of religious platitudes and wishful thinking. A grand theory of anti-blackness: The unflinching and profound terror in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World and Me” 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Smith could navigate a thin line between sentimentality and clear-eyed realism but alas, this production feels less like complicated life than a diorama of it. ‘Becomes a Woman’ Review: A Girl Gets Wise in Brooklyn 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z But, in a bid to be family friendly, it also goes for a sprightly sentimentality reminiscent of “The Champ.” | 'Knucklehead': He?s a Big Man on a Mission 2010-10-21T22:59:00Z And if "The Old Romantic" sometimes lapses into sentimentality, what of it? Dean comes by sentiment honestly in 'Old Romantic' 2011-02-16T17:01:05Z The play within the frame remains sketchy, watercolor-by-numbers reminiscence poised between the misty sentimentality of Eugene O’Neill’s “Ah, Wilderness!” and the sassier sentimentality of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs.” Review: ‘What I Did Last Summer,’ a Letter of Apology From an Ex-Teenager 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Telling a story from the perspective of a child always risks a descent into sentimentality. Who Cares About One Missing Child in an Indian Slum? Another Child 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z His reasoning betrayed a strange brew of pragmatism and sentimentality. ‘Philology’ by James Turner explains what happened to a discipline that flourished Such books mistake action for plot, they substitute sentimentality for authentic emotion, they pass off cynicism as profundity. Perspective | Mr. President, you don’t know a poorly written novel 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z In The Times, Jason Zinoman called the segment “an ingenious indictment of the sexism and sentimentality of our narratives about genius.” What’s on TV Tuesday: James Corden in Britain and ‘Hannah Gadsby: Nanette’ 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Some answers are obvious, but for the most part this musical avoids the trap of sentimentality. Review: In ‘Southern Comfort,’ a Family Not Bound by Blood 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Payne makes it clear that science and sentimentality need not be mutually exclusive. Review: In ‘Incognito,’ the Brain Is Dramatic and Mysterious 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z That unlikely pairing becomes a source of both laughs and sentimentality, Mike Hale wrote in his review for The New York Times. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Network’ and Two Very Different Spy Movies 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z I cried at the National Theatre, and yet I can't face the maudlin sentimentality of the film. Revenge of the Muppets 2012-02-12T20:00:19Z Its flaws are well documented – clanging symbolism, an over-egging of the socialist pudding and accusations of sentimentality – but when a diamond is this big, you don't see the flaws. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z This sonorous lower register gives voice to her bracing impatience with sentimentality and disingenuousness. Are Her Characters Seeing Things? Maybe. Maybe Not. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Evidently, carefree farce is as much in fashion as Ms. Morgan’s labored sentimentality. Critic?s Notebook: London Theater Journal: It's About Time 2012-02-02T15:38:37Z The sharpness of his early standup just seemed so incompatible with the sentimentality of his worst movies, and if, as Williams claims, Old Dogs simply paid the bills, he must have one very high-maintenance lifestyle. Robin Williams: 'I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust ? that's hard to recover from' 2010-09-20T07:00:00Z This film is an especially toxic blend of the condescension, idiocy and sentimentality that characterizes almost all of Sandler’s recent work under his Happy Madison label. Adam Sandler hates you 2012-06-16T22:00:00Z Here Mr. Droege dips his toe into the pool of sentimentality but quickly draws it back. Review: The Wedding Guest as Hot Mess in ‘Bright Colors and Bold Patterns’ 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z At the same time, however, the show was sort of amazing, because it captured the mix of naive sentimentality and rancid cynicism that defines showbiz -- and the audience's relationship to showbiz. The Golden Globes of hatred 2011-01-17T14:10:00Z The ensemble’s rendition of the Borodin quartet enhanced its lyrical and sometimes nostalgic elements without veering into sentimentality. Music Review: Moscow String Quartet at Frick Collection - Review 2011-10-04T20:14:39Z Maggie’s closing monologue, which essentially summed up the entire story to this point, reflected the show’s weakness for bludgeoning sentimentality. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Finale: The Ones Who Live 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z Yet somehow, producer Billy Sherrill pieced together a performance that exemplified country music’s unique power — its sentimentality, its appeal to maturity, its understanding of what it means to hope collectively in the face of hopelessness. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Ms. Fox’s nonluminous Lily remains a standard male fantasy of a damsel in distress until the inevitable “Wind Beneath My Wings” moment lofts the movie into a never-never land of hokey sentimentality. | 'Passion Play': Blow the Trumpet, Palooka, Life Is but a Carny Dream 2011-05-06T05:23:01Z It was the most ever paid for a guitar at that point, but to Clapton the instrument was devoid of the sentimentality his fans attached to it. Eric Clapton to rock KeyArena Saturday 2011-02-24T22:49:50Z As staged by Ms. Barnett, these scenes may horrify parents, but unlike most frank portraits of teenage life, the play does not resort to despair or sentimentality. Theater Review: Prepare to Kiss, a Bar Mitzvah Is Coming 2011-08-11T02:30:50Z The story tracks Turner through assorted incidents and relationships with Mr. Leigh’s signature intelligent guffaws, quotable lines, daubs of sanctimony and finish coat of sentimentality. Sommeliers Decanting the Madness of Cannes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The first movement went at a tremendous, irresistible pace, the slow one stayed just on the right side of sentimentality, the scherzo was a tissue of delicate tracery, the finale joyously affirmative. Daniel Hope and Friends 2010-09-29T20:59:00Z Roger Norrington's approach to Mahler's Ninth Symphony, combining a rearranged orchestral layout, quicker than usual tempos, an avoidance of vibrato and a spurning of sentimentality, sparked lively controversy when his recording was issued last year. Prom 14: Stuttgart Radio SO/Norrington ? review 2011-07-26T10:11:47Z Even so, it was a thrill to hear Herman’s old-fashioned Broadway songs, tunes that swing between razzle-dazzle and sentimentality, performed by a full orchestra. Review: ‘La Cage aux Folles’ Brightens Up Berlin 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z There are two or three big sentimentalities here. The Audience – review 2013-03-10T00:06:29Z Ms. Harry is allergic to sentimentality, yet under the blasé surface is a smoky torch singer struggling to emerge. Review: Debbie Harry Begins a Run at Café Carlyle 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z She bathes the movie in tenderness, but she remains faithful to the story’s brutal lack of sentimentality, which can make you gasp. ‘Passing’ Review: Black Skin, White Masks 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z But more often than not, I felt suffocated by the gaseous sentimentality and lightheadedness of a story that drops in subplots that it can’t begin to develop. | 'Waiting for Forever': Undying Love in the Time of Arrested Development 2011-02-04T00:35:04Z The band’s sound, switching up between rock beats and reductions of Afro-Brazilian funk, challenges Mr. Veloso, pushing him to escape old sentimentalities and perhaps invent new ones. New Music: New Music by the Hold Steady, Future Islands, Caetano Veloso 2014-03-24T22:45:20Z The most striking characteristic of Hughes's approach is its near-total lack of sentimentality, which runs so contrary to current orthodoxy as to begin to seem weird. Sean Hughes: Life Becomes Noises – Edinburgh review 2012-08-13T17:00:01Z There are moments when the film’s concern for the environment tilts toward sentimentality and even hysteria. Movie Review: ‘You’ve Been Trumped,’ an Unflattering Documentary 2012-08-02T14:29:16Z Mr. Gillett, though portly and middle age, exudes a teenager’s starry-eyed infatuation with show business and infuses everything he sings with a blustery sentimentality. Music Review: Eric Michael Gillett and La Tanya Hall at Feinstein?s 2012-02-22T23:03:37Z An insidious nostalgia is spreading, through Member Berries, a grape-like “superfood” that squeals with sentimentality as benign as “Member the first ‘Ghostbusters’?” and as disturbing as “Member when there weren’t so many Mexicans?” So much for hope: “South Park” abandons serialization, apparently all really is lost 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z "Cliche, camp and sentimentality are cornerstones of the form and we shouldn't be ashamed of that." How I fell out of love with opera 2010-05-27T21:00:00Z There may be no room for sentimentality or cheap bromides, but his characters crave grace and redemption, even if they themselves are beyond it. Concert review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at Chicago Theatre 2013-04-02T05:31:00Z Without a breath of sentimentality, Sullivan dares to imagine the entwined trials and riches to be found in cloistered devotion. J. Courtney Sullivan’s ‘Saints for All Occasions’ is this year’s best book about family 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Orstavik’s mastery of perspective and clean, crackling sentences prevent sentimentality or sensationalism from trailing this story of a woman and her accidentally untended child. Cold Cases: Three Scandinavian Novels Explore Chilling Emotional Territory 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z She saves her honorary-degree moment from syrupy sentimentality with the fierce focus of her grip on the diploma. Music Review: ‘Zinnias: The Life of Clementine Hunter,’ by Robert Wilson 2013-01-27T23:01:31Z The Wagner was superbly presented, with no sentimentality but simply an evenly breathed tenderness, the slow-burn intensity provided by the strings' exceptional warmth of tone at the low dynamic levels. Prom 27: BBCSSO/Runnicles – review 2012-08-05T13:28:28Z The film is earning decidedly mixed reviews, with many critics finding director David Dobkin guilty of sentimentality and an overstuffed plot. 'The Judge': Well-acted but guilty of sentimentality, reviews say 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z In an age of desiccated puzzle-stories, “Maniac” puts emotion first, even at the risk of sentimentality. Review: ‘Maniac’ Is a Hallucinatory, Emotional Dream Machine 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z It takes supremely confident storytelling to let characters be who they are, to not succumb to sentimentality or to easy, black and white thinking. Melissa McCarthy, as you haven't seen her: Why her "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" Oscar nod is a thrill 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The show’s empathy and sentimentality stands out in an increasingly bitter and divisive era — so get those tissues ready. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Queer Eye’ and ‘Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z This notion of greatness and sentimentality that these showrunners cling to is not only bogus but anathema to young people. Roadies: latest show in the old man nostalgia parade that is ruining TV 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z She carries a bound prompt book and introduces us to the town and its inhabitants in a tone that manages to be full of feeling yet flinty enough to keep sentimentality at bay. Deaf West and Pasadena Playhouse populate 'Our Town' with fresh faces 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z And Mr. Huang offered a stellar performance of the Saint-Saëns, giving full vent to its big tunes without letting sweetness sour into sentimentality. Review: Gianandrea Noseda Returns to a New York Philharmonic in Transition 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z Ms. Sullivan found a lovely balance between amusement and sentimentality. Music Review: K T Sullivan and Larry Woodard at Laurie Beechman Theater 2012-06-21T21:51:41Z And the best of this year’s programs are a strong group, especially among the Chinese-language selections, where the familiar, heavy-handed mix of sentimentality and nationalism seems in abeyance. Critic’s Notebook: New York Asian Film Festival Offers Sturdy Hollywood Themes 2013-06-28T22:13:41Z “There’s no room for sentimentality in farming,” he said. Johnson’s Barn, a North Dakota Institution, Plans Its Last Dance 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z A dogmatic, winner-take-all techno-determinism, which sees streaming as the inevitable and perhaps welcome death of an old-fashioned, inefficient activity, is answered by an equally dogmatic sentimentality about the aesthetic and moral superiority of traditional moviegoing. The Movies Are Back. But What Are Movies Now? 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z No adoring acolytes though, the Zaleskis frequently draw attention to Lewis’s faults as a Christian apologist, noting the “condescension” in some of his books and their frequent mix of “affable common-sense laced with sentimentality.” ‘The Fellowship’ explores the spiritual roots of Tolkien and the Inklings 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The birth-control pill, which helped propel the second wave of feminism, and rock ’n’ roll’s hedonistic ethic and amplification both undermined Hammerstein’s patriarchal sentimentality and toughened the sound of pop. Music: The Unmistakable Sensibility of Sondheim 2010-04-30T23:09:00Z Not that sentimentality is a drawback in a baseball movie. MOVIE REVIEW: Baseball film fans will cheer ‘Million Dollar Arm’ 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z He may really believe his painting’s words or, in the style of the television series “Portlandia,” he may be satirizing New Age sentimentality. Art Review: 5 Artists in ‘Energy That Is All Around: Mission School’ 2014-04-24T21:50:22Z The stiff-upper-lip sentimentality implicit in this perspective, and in the play’s portrait of its hero’s tragically thwarted imagination, could cloy. Theater Review: ‘Cornelius’ Is Revived at 59E59 Theaters 2013-06-12T21:15:07Z Rivas's conducting, meanwhile, was all grand passion without sentimentality, which is well-nigh ideal in Rachmaninov. RLPO/Rivas ? review 2012-05-18T16:42:08Z Her urgent, overly fast tempo made the first movement of the composer’s Fifth Symphony a nervous blur, but the second movement felt bracing in its lack of sentimentality. With new members in BSO, striving for a cohesive sound in season opener at Strathmore 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z The curators sampled from the animal movies that lie between the sentimentality of Hollywood family fare and the studied neutrality of science films. Animals Continue to Fascinate Humans: Films Prove It 2012-03-31T06:36:09Z There is the mixture of introspection, resentment and sentimentality. Diciembre 2010-09-05T16:28:00Z The latest example of the right-wing contradiction between sentimentality and substance is country singer Jason Aldean's statement that he is a "proud American." Bruce Springsteen and John Mellencamp can teach Jason Aldean a thing or two about small towns 2023-07-30T04:00:00Z The pianist Howard Watkins, dignified and unshowy, resisted moroseness as well as sentimentality, locating the power of the piece in its observational lens. Review: Songs That Defy the ‘Quotidian Nature of Evil’ 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Usually the two are at odds: You want to clear the clutter, but sentimentality gets in the way, leaving you with another big pile. Forget hanging it on the fridge. Here’s how to make your kid’s art last forever. 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The baby appears at the end of “Gary,” too, but Mac disparaged the reproductive sentimentality that one might discern in Taymor’s interpretation. In “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” Taylor Mac Takes on Shakespeare—and Trump 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Disrupting our sentimentality about children is no bad thing. Moral Crusades in an Age of Mistrust: the Jimmy Savile Scandal by Frank Furedi – review 2013-03-13T12:00:02Z Pete Seeger – Bear Hunt As much a tale as a song, I suppose, but I like the tempo and, yes, the sentimentality. Readers recommend: songs about old age 2010-08-05T23:02:00Z The company is betting, nonetheless, that its cheap and chic concept still has legs, clearly hoping its throwbacks will mine a vein of consumer sentimentality. You’ve Heard of the Drop. Target Had It First. 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z This memoir has its sentimentalities and infelicities and narrative eddies, but few that distract you from its flowing course. Books of The Times: William Styron, in a Daughter?s Words 2011-04-19T18:14:34Z He’s fond of the gruff and curmudgeonly Bauer, yet sentimentality is scarce while the double-crossings are surprising and the dry humor is welcome. Review: Treasonous Play for Justice in ‘The People vs. Fritz Bauer’ 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Without undue optimism or overt sentimentality, he discovers a measure of hope amid the cruelty and misfortune. ‘Broker’ Review: It Takes a Village to Sell a Child 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z "The image of no man's land also reflects the national psyche itself, gripped alternately by paroxysms of sentimentality and bouts of convenient amnesia for more than a decade of war." Did 'American Sniper' miss an important mark? 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z There is no room for sentimentality: it's simply about moving forward, about next year's spreadsheet. Get rich or die tryin': how hip-hop changed the world 2011-08-10T14:29:52Z Today’s world of TV parents, heavy with melodrama and sentimentality, could use more scenes like this one. Where are the realistic TV moms? 2014-02-09T21:00:00Z Falling Skies has been something of a curate's egg: some great, fascinating alien science fiction stuff encased in a mess of sentimentality and weak characterisation. TV highlights 30/08/2011: The Great British Bake Off 2011-08-29T22:00:00Z Likely this has to do with the preference of Isabella Rossellini — who conceived, co-directed and performs this piece about animals’ thoughts and communications — for surreal humor over cloying sentimentality. Review: Isabella Rossellini as Ringmaster in ‘Link Link Circus’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z For some, this will come across as sentimentality, as in her invitation to the public to smile on screen or leave a wish on a tree. Mark Wallinger: Site; Yoko Ono: To the Light – review 2012-06-23T23:05:31Z It is to Jolie’s enormous credit that she is able to put this wholesome revisionist message across without righteousness or sentimentality. Love's True Kiss: 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z But it's also a gimmicky glop of sentimentality, "Ghost" meets "The Sixth Sense." 'Charlie St. Cloud': Zac Efron shows he's more than just a dreamboat 2010-07-29T20:30:00Z Curiously, Mitchell seems most cynical about Brook's approach; the scene has a kind of sentimentality, as if her heart isn't quite in it. Five Truths brings new clarity to Ophelia's demise 2011-07-21T10:35:22Z From a distance this project might look like a piece of rigorous critical thinking; up close it’s a lot more casual, based on sentimentality and comfort. New Music: New Albums from Patti Smith, Ravi Coltrane and Neneh Cherry 2012-06-18T21:55:59Z It shows in the hard edges of her can-do personality, on guard against unwonted sentimentality and unneeded calories, sidestepping leery co-workers with a breezy smile. How a Grandmother’s Diary Led to a Long-Lost Literary Gem 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z To its credit, in our dangerously ahistorical era, “Anne with an E,” a new CBC-Netflix “Anne of Green Gables” adaptation, which comes out tomorrow, aims to avoid sentimentality. How Not to Adapt “Anne of Green Gables” 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z There's nothing groundbreaking about the story of "The Fighter," but at least it doesn't surrender to the rampant sentimentality about family and poverty that infects American cinema as a whole. "The Fighter": From small-town palooka to champion 2010-12-10T01:30:00Z To temper the melancholy, the music offers sentimentality, in the syrupy 1950s romance that oozes across Surrender's waltzing piano or the title track's country chords. Joshua James: From the Top of Willamette Mountain – review 2012-11-22T21:15:01Z The difficulties of the hike help keep sentimentality in check. 'Wild' takes Reese Witherspoon into raw, bracing new territory 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z He tears up at times when talking about his mother, but eschewed overt sentimentality when creating these paintings. Gary Hume Loves His Mother. His Art Is a Valentine to Her. 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z There is not an ounce of sentimentality in this show. Review: In ‘Dust,’ the Measure of a Life After Suicide 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z “He will be with you in these things,” you say, entirely without sentimentality. A letter to … the hospice doctor who helped us to say goodbye 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z In general, the music is superior to the drama, which can veer between sentimentality and very broad comedy. Simplicity supplies emotional eloquence to pub musical 'Once' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Yet there’s no melodrama, sentimentality or special pleading. The Model Apartment: A Great Play Rediscovered 2013-10-16T12:00:01Z The magic ingredient of food is so often sentimentality, which is why "The Bear" hits so hard. "Every second counts": How Jaenicke's taught me that home is only a hot dog stand away 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z Asked to name the greatest flaw she saw in new writers, she replied, "Fear of sentimentality." Two dog memoirs shed light on human nature 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z It would be too easy to be mean to these people, and while “Circle Mirror Transformation” eschews sentimentality, it always seems to believe in the promise of the third word of its title. Biograph asks: Are we ever going to do any real acting? 2011-03-08T17:45:21Z There are moments in Khorsandi's act when she plays with sentiment and sentimentality – and then undercuts them. Shappi Khorsandi: the last laugh 2011-08-10T20:30:02Z Nostalgiagrips many of them, even when they slash angrily at sentimentality. ?City of Bohane,? by Kevin Barry 2012-03-30T23:27:18Z Her dry-eyed performance is the more impressive because the role could so easily have been milked for weepy sentimentality. Review: ‘Woman in Gold’ Stars Helen Mirren in Tug of War Over Artwork 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z He avoided sentimentality without shying away from the work’s heart-on-sleeve emotionalism. Music Review: A Philharmonic Evening of Schnittke, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky 2012-03-30T21:34:43Z There’s residue of sugary sentimentality here, and a lot of mothball/cornball humor. ‘Music Man’: Good times in River City 2013-02-15T22:22:43Z Yet this very synopsis risks evoking exactly the sentimentality, the artificially sweetened amiability, and the facility that Vogel himself had suspected Rogers of propagating with his show and his public persona. The Wondrous Heroism of Mr. Rogers in “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z To say which is to admit the sentimentality to which literature of this sort is inevitably prone. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z Castillo deserves credit for training her gaze on working people, squarely and without sentimentality. Three New Story Collections Make Place a Protagonist 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z The conundrum suggested in the title really isn't equivalent in value except in the realm of sentimentality. Netflix's "Marriage or Mortgage" invites us to look back at a time when bad decisions were a luxury 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z I’ve long tried to reconcile my sentimentality for my childhood soundtrack with my reluctance to embrace the woman who created it. I Used to Be a Taylor Swift Fan. ‘Miss Americana’ Reminded Me Why. 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Yet the freshness that’s so appealing in Act 1 dissipates in the bloated second act, which succumbs to sentimentality and broad-stroke cliché. Review: ‘The Hello Girls’ Answered the Call in World War I 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z The Guardian cited "sincerity and commitment, and an earnest rejection of the horror of war" but criticised "sentimentality is at its core". France's Godard at 83 screens a 3D 'Adieu' at Cannes 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z Each character is given to pointing out the reductive sentimentality and banality in the arguments of the other, which conveniently allows Mr. Logan to stave off criticisms of being clichéd himself. Theater Review | 'Red': Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in John Logan?s Drama 2010-04-02T10:10:00Z Neither performer overdoes the sympathy that develops between Kidd and Johanna, and the film is tender without descending too far into sentimentality. ‘News of the World’ Review: Tom Hanks Does the Strong, Silent Type 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z It is a masterly, moving portrait of how Africa ensnares and enchants and plays merry hell with sentimentalities. The Lower River by Paul Theroux – review 2012-05-31T07:00:03Z Kael's razor-sharp intellect, passion for movies and lack of sentimentality were apparent from her early youth. 5 great gift books for performing-arts fans 2011-12-15T21:11:25Z Of Mr. Goffin’s strengths, DeCurtis added, “His lyrics are both elegant and plainspoken, moving without succumbing to sentimentality. He set a standard for literacy without ever being a show-off about it.” Gerry Goffin, lyricist who co-wrote seminal ’60s hits, dies at 75 Less can be more, however, when it comes to Mahler's song cycle, which was free from self-indulgence or sentimentality. Prom 48: LPO/Jurowski – review 2012-08-19T15:56:24Z Sensationalism, self-righteousness, sentimentality — there are plenty of traps lying in wait for playwrights examining gun violence. The Pen and the Trigger Finger: Examining Gun Violence Onstage 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z The script hews closely to the version that Dickens himself toured, with passages of prose narration that cut the goose-fat sentimentality with keen wit and gimlet detail. Review: In This Solo ‘Christmas Carol,’ the Night Is Never Silent 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Ms. Murphy juxtaposes the comedy, the heartache and the carrying-on with a deft hand, so that sentimentality is kept at bay. 2010-01-08T03:46:00Z This was the LSO's second performance of the Bruch this year, and like its predecessor – with Renaud Capuçon and Daniel Harding – it avoided sentimentality by approaching the work on a massive scale. LSO/Pappano - review 2010-12-17T22:00:00Z Nor did he aim for that sentimentality in his encore, the third movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 12 in A flat: a heroic funeral march, here more dignified than mournful. Review: Two Artists Arrive at the Philharmonic, Loudly 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Incapable of sentimentality, she refuses to play by the rules. With Jane Lynch, It’s Not Your Typical Cabaret 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z Adaptations of Victor Hugo’s paean to human suffering are inevitably bushwhacked by the novel’s mounting sentimentalities and coincidences. The Best TV Episodes of 2019 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z Playwright Nathan Louis Jackson takes this juicy premise and then steers it into a subtle meditation on time and second chances, avoiding either sentimentality or overtly taking sides in the passionate debate over executions. A play about death row wrestles with meaning 2011-02-11T00:30:32Z They are, as you might expect, livelier and briefer than their documentary counterparts, but in contrast to the cheery sentimentality that dominates feature-length commercial animation, these little movies tackle some pretty dark and grown-up themes. ‘Crisis Hotline,’ ‘La Parka,’ ‘Joanna’ and Other Short Oscar Nominees 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The paranoia was cut with nostalgia and the violence wrapped in sentimentality, and the whole package, with its sensitive beefcake leads, was calibrated for the young audience of what was then the WB network. ‘Supernatural’ Lays Its Weary Head to Rest 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Always he was an adversarial politician who revelled in invective, an unprincipled and callous cynic who could steep himself in treacly sentimentality, a juggler of men and measures. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z But his plays have a piercing emotionalism that can be a gift to actors who know the difference between genuine feeling and sentimentality. Character development counts in bringing plays to life onstage 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Lunging wildly between satirical farce and teary sentimentality, the movie follows the misadventures of a ragtag symphony orchestra that travels from Moscow to Paris under false pretenses. | 'The Concert': Radu Mihaileanu?s Comedy Focuses on Zany Orchestra 2010-07-29T21:15:00Z That pretty much sums up the level of sentimentality I grew up around. Wife/mother/worker/spy: Hand-Me-Down Memories? Not Here 2010-03-09T00:57:00Z In its refusal to have any truck with sentimentalism, Bad Santa is a tremendously good film, and perhaps a brilliant satire of Christmassy family sentimentality and commercialism. The Santa supremacy: Peter Bradshaw's top Christmas movies 2010-12-15T21:30:07Z Yet in other passages emotionality is pushed almost to the point of hysteria, while banal language reduces the beautiful central legend to sentimentality. The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness – review 2013-04-20T10:30:01Z To intolerant Bartókians, the Third Concerto is the weak one, verging on sentimentality. The importance of being the L.A. Phil 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z "Field of Dreams" may be sentimental, but it's also a very smart commentary on sentimentality. What's the best baseball movie? 2011-09-23T20:59:00Z Just snap a photo and add a quote dripping with forced sentimentality. In Havre de Grace, Md., on the Chesapeake Bay, a rich maritime history — and ducks, lots of ducks 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Yet here the clash between sentimentality and violence is too strong, the impact of those deaths too unforgotten. What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z And so Ms. Lee bares her personal pains for our sympathetic amusement, relating potentially sticky tales of schoolyard humiliation and bad breakups with a casual bluntness that keeps sentimentality at bay. | 'We?re Gonna Die': Amid Catchy Choruses, Personal Tales of Life?s Brutal Verities 2011-04-10T21:32:33Z He doesn't see us through a prism of sentimentality. 2010-01-29T19:45:00Z Even that presumes a shared sentimentality, like the annual broadcasts of classic animated specials and movies like "It's a Wonderful Life." Bet your bottom dollar that NBC's "Annie Live!" will usher in a new inclusive era for an old classic 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z This is no place for tears or sentimentality. Album review: Bob Dylan, 'Tempest' 2012-09-07T16:48:00Z This balancing act between sentimentality and cynicism often feels wobbly. ‘Juniper’ Review: Bad Grandma 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Augmented by dulcimer, banjo, organ, and stand-up bass, as well as softly brushed drums, the six-piece unit's low-key fare suffers from vanilla flavoring and exaggerated sentimentality. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z Much of his fiction is long-winded and rife with sentimentality. In support of Stephen King 2012-07-18T14:16:00Z After a tragedy “Parked” collapses into sentimentality that not even an actor of Mr. Meaney’s dignity and restraint can redeem from mawkishness. Movie Review: Colm Meaney in ‘Parked,’ About Ireland’s Homeless 2012-11-30T00:25:06Z The movie’s evident sympathy for them at times shades toward sentimentality, and the story that emerges from their hustling and scoring is dealt from a stacked deck. Review: In ‘Animals,’ a Couple in Love With Heroin 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Given the brutal subject matter, the opera stays remarkably agile, avoiding sentimentality even as it embraces frank sentiment. A Hotbed of Operatic Innovation Wins With Tradition 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z With sparse sentimentality but firm understanding, his performance creates space for Love’s larger themes of redemption in a system set up to keep young Black men locked away. ‘Soft’ Review: Young Black Men, Gently Pointed Toward Liberation 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Finally, there was cloying sentimentality — presumably the big Thanksgiving dinner we saw took place in the same dewy spirit world the “Lost” folks reunited in a few years back. ‘The Walking Dead’ Season 7 Premiere: Negan’s Victim Is Revealed 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z “Sunset Song” is the story of one woman’s true grit, told without sentimentality. Review: ‘Sunset Song’ Shows a Woman’s True Grit 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z But I longed to see her unmediated through his sentimentality, and truly on her own terms. What Three Broadway Shows Tell Us About Racial Progress 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Prone to sentimentality and heavy-handed moralizing, and not a little naïve, she is aggressively recruited by Mae, the Farm’s director, who knows that Reagan — or, more precisely, her womb — could represent “a record-breaking year-end bonus.” A Novel About Surrogacy, Set at a ‘Farm’ Where the Crop Is Human Babies 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z CANNES, France — James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its sentimentality. Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response 2013-05-25T21:43:18Z The low-key, observational style of the humor in “Better Things” may leave you restless, and there are moments when the show veers into cuteness or sentimentality. Review: 3 Kids. No Husband. In ‘Better Things,’ a Single Mother’s Plight. 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z They are gentle and touching stories, hopeful without sentimentality. Jeanette Winterson’s 12 Christmas stories are a magical holiday treat 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z This work, in media ranging from performance to painting, is well aware of art-historical pitfalls, of the sentimentality and the mythologising. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z And this year’s crop had something for everyone: bro humor, celebrity athlete cameos, nostalgia, sentimentality and plenty of cute animals. Super Bowl commercials still sassy, but a little more classy as sexism fades in 2015 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z This somewhat ramshackle affair is packed with action, is handsomely photographed, and has enough realism and danger to keep the lurking sentimentality at bay. Africa United ? film review 2010-10-23T23:05:00Z His skill for that approach endeared him to ravers across the globe, in part because he has long been devoted to trance, an often-derided genre of dance music rooted in big climaxes and unabashed sentimentality. Trance Music Is Coming Back. Evian Christ Is Part of the Revival. 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z Those looking for populism and sentimentality will resent this outcome. Geoffrey Hill powers his way to a poetic pinnacle 2010-06-21T13:21:00Z Learning to let go — of personal hang-ups, social expectations and ultimately of life itself — is at the heart of “… What the End Will Be,” which is not shy on sentimentality. ‘… What the End Will Be’ Review: Learning to Let Go 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Perhaps most remarkably, he’s the rare artist who doesn’t shy away from sentimentality. Review: ‘The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey,’ James Lecesne’s One-Man Play 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Too many works aimed at younger age groups ooze with sentimentality or buckle under a condescending tone. ‘The Sky Is Everywhere’ Review: Amid Grief, Blossoms of Joy 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z Furthermore, the film as a whole is saturated in masculine, American ingenuity, courage and sentimentality. 'If anyone can Maga, it is Nasa': how First Man put a rocket up the politics of space 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z That show’s rat-tat-tat dialogue, pop culture savvy and unabashed sentimentality are all over this unconventional romantic comedy. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z An objection may be justified, but the more logical protest would be against the show’s thin, utilitarian characterizations and the increasingly tone-deaf nature of its formerly tolerable mix of full-metal medieval-fantasy violence and soap-opera sentimentality. In ‘Game of Thrones’ Finale, a Breakdown in Storytelling 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Not one for sentimentality, she opens her slender memoir like this: “I’m 12 years old, and this evening I’ll be dead.” New Books by M. L. Stedman, Yvvette Edwards and More 2012-07-25T21:57:20Z It’s a love letter to the ’80s, with all the aimless sentimentality and wishful thinking that the medium implies. We get it, you love the ’80s! John Hughes nostalgia trap catches “Red Oaks” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z So does he not share the film's judgment on mawkish sentimentality? Robin Williams: 'I was shameful, did stuff that caused disgust ? that's hard to recover from' 2010-09-20T07:00:00Z When he revisited old work, he did so without sentimentality. Caetano Veloso gigs the Hollywood Bowl; Bird and Banhart offer support 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z But Stephen — read Joyce — also knows that literature can drown itself in platonic idealism, sentimentality and nostalgia. Heeding the lessons of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a century later 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z “There’s something toxic to me about the sentimentality and the sweetness, the whole megillah,” she said. Encounters : In New York City Christmas Comedy Show, Jackie Hoffman Lampoons Holiday 2013-12-18T23:24:10Z But persistent sentimentality — manifested most in the music score by A.R. Review: In ‘Beyond the Clouds,’ a Brother and Sister Struggle in Mumbai 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Like all ancient languages it has severity, hard logic without any sentimentality. The Man Booker International prize finalists speak 2013-05-14T14:19:53Z But although Gilman writes well about loneliness, she does so without sentimentality. Blue Surge ? review 2011-08-08T17:40:01Z As in his first novel, “The Yellow Birds,” Powers details these inhumane acts with elegance, restraint and a refreshing absence of sentimentality. Slavery’s Repercussions Unspool in a Dark Southern Tale 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Wet Wet Wet's Marti Pellow narrates, but it is the character of the flawed, working-class mother who is most memorable in a story which is all the more effective because it eschews sentimentality. This week's new theatre 2013-01-12T06:00:19Z As far as he could tell, the next wave of great artists would dare to cut against the prevailing tone of cynicism and irony, risking “sentimentality,” “ovecredulity” and “softness.” David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z It’s a brilliantly balanced act of synchronous narration, never succumbing to the temptation of sentimentality or cuteness but always attendant to the child’s wonder. Review | ‘Damnation Spring’ beautifully explores the human cost of environmental damage 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z The window where men restrained their crying was brief, and relatively recent, a Victorian overcorrection to the sentimentality associated with Romanticism. The Tears of Brett Kavanaugh 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z “When the guitar is crying, he’ll calm it down. The sentimentality between him and his guitar is very powerful for me.” How Bombino Became the Sultan of Shred 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Any simple-minded sentimentality about immigrants all being in the same boat is entirely absent from “Yellow Negroes” where everybody is potentially somebody else to exploit. A Comic Book Artist Who Makes the Invisible Visible 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z The film’s spiked nog of cynicism and sentimentality wasn’t easy for some to swallow, including Canby: 10 Classic Christmas Movies That Our Critics Didn’t See Coming 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Straussian effusiveness and whiffs of melodic sentimentality keep escaping more effortfully than perhaps typical of Previn, but there is a distant kinship. L.A. Phil's vision of Grand Avenue as a shelter for new work, ideas 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z And even though it’s largely comic in tone, the film still can’t help but get sucked into a slushy vortex of sentimentality by the time the credits roll. ‘About Last Night’: A one-night stand best forgotten 2014-02-12T23:56:10Z From one angle their lost worlds can be seen as excursions into sentimentality. Movies: A Season of Movies About Movies 2011-12-04T03:43:05Z Ellora’s death taught me to care little for materialism and sentimentality. What shall I do with the sympathy cards people sent when my baby died? 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Her final scene with Charlie is heartrendingly poignant, but without sentimentality. Smashed – review 2012-12-13T21:50:01Z Kevin Wilson scrapes away all the cloying sentimentality that so often sticks to young characters. Review | Children burst into flames in Kevin Wilson’s ‘Nothing to See Here’ 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Some viewers may have trouble with the ’80s surface of “City on Fire” — the acting can be histrionic, the sentimentality pervasive, the action slightly cartoonish, the shoulders awfully padded. New York Asian Film Festival Features Ringo Lam, Hong Kong Crime Master 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The formal adventurousness, which continued throughout his somewhat less successful later plays, banished sentimentality and forestalled psychological self-indulgence. Sam Shepard, the cowboy playwright who rewrote the rules of the American stage 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z With little sentimentality, Britt-Marie leaves her home to make a life of her own. ‘Britt-Marie Was Here’ Review: Scrubbing Away Years of Indifference 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z She avoids sentimentality the way a runner on the beach zigs to avoid the foamy lips of waves. Sharon Olds, Laureate of Sexuality, Scrutinizes the Body in ‘Odes’ 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z However, African American writers and activists immediately objected to its depiction of passive, compliant slaves, and the sentimentality with which it depicted the pre-civil war US south. Gone With the Wind returns to HBO Max with disclaimer that film ‘denies the horrors of slavery’ 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z Without a shred of sentimentality or false perkiness, O'Flynn embodies to perfection Stephens's rich portrait of the female capacity for endurance. Port – review 2013-01-29T12:59:14Z “The Cuddles Mary Gave,” a song whose title seems to promise sickly sweetness, becomes powerfully specific as performed across the grain, without sentimentality, by William Youmans. Review: Off Broadway, Jim Parsons Meets the Small Bang Theory 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z That is the central subject of the new teen drama “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,” which is a movie of amiable sentimentality and considerable skill, but of canned sensibility. What’s Missing from “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z "How Do You Know" is in no sense a perfect movie, and if its combination of shameless sentimentality and willful eccentricity simply sets your teeth on edge, I'll understand. "How Do You Know": A deliciously messy holiday rom-com 2010-12-17T01:30:00Z Puccini, something of a musical magpie, and not exactly progressive, nevertheless had his finger on the pulse of the 20th century to an astonishing degree – sentimentality, cruelty, hedonistic abandon, alienation. The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music? 2012-11-29T20:00:02Z It also created the risk of sentimentality, which Bearden routinely avoided. Visions of Life, Built From Bits and Pieces 2011-03-31T23:00:12Z For all his fine textures, Chen's affinity with the impressionism of his adopted France made for a curious overall experience, its lapses into sentimentality feeling dated. Vale of Glamorgan festival – review 2013-05-16T14:54:15Z They don’t ... quite, in a movie that wants to reassure while avoiding sentimentality. ‘Black or White’ Stars Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z The third episode finally brings a crisis, addressed with sparse humor and a surprising cargo of sentimentality. Review: Fox’s ‘The Orville’ is Star Trek, the Next Regurgitation 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The schmaltz and sentimentality that often clog this concerto were largely cleared away. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Bruch and Bruckner 2013-01-10T22:16:29Z "Deadwood" achieves the difficult feat of being elegiac without the least hint of sentimentality. Before the profane delights of "Deadwood," silver-tongued "Tombstone" rode in 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Walls refuses easy sentimentality, and the story is brisk and surprising, perfectly paced. These Are Not Your G-Rated Fairy Tales 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z “The New Normal” is a modern comedy with a twist of old-fashioned sentimentality. Television Review: ‘The New Normal’ and ‘Guys With Kids’ Begin on NBC 2012-09-10T21:56:20Z Yet her devotion to one social network is not an act of sentimentality — it’s part of a careful strategy for combating social media burnout. For the Plugged-In, Too Many Choices 2011-08-10T21:03:45Z Klemperer, he suggests, was a different kind of conductor, neither interested in “sentimentality in music,” as his contemporary Bruno Walter had been, nor in “rhetoric and pathos,” like his rival Wilhelm Furtwängler. Otto Klemperer’s Conducting Still Stuns, 50 Years After His Death 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z There’s no room for sentimentality in a world so relentlessly “stunning and heartless.” Review | ‘The World to Come,’ stories by Jim Shepard 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Death Grips, on a smaller stage right after Ms. Hill’s set, played with a similarly uninterrupted, flow-through feeling, though way more explosive and less legible, and with zero sentimentality. Review: Grace Jones Headlines a Bold Afropunk Festival Lineup 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z These aren’t typical depictions of domestic abuse. But look past these soulful gazes and gentle cheek caresses, and beneath this shoe-gaze image of a bad boyfriend lurks a dangerous sentimentality. The sinister seduction of “Cherry Wine”: Domestic violence, filtered through a soft Instagram gloss 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z That show couldn’t help but draw out both the power and weakness of his work: his daring reimagination of old themes and provocative use of gritty realism, but also his sentimentality and bathos. ‘200 Years of African American Art’ at Philadelphia Museum of Art 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z “He showed neither sentimentality nor chauvinism for his own race or any other. He hated everyone,” the novelist Danzy Senna writes in a new introduction to “Black No More.” Two Classic American Novels About the Madness and Beauty of Race 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z There’s warmth and feeling here, particularly in the younger Bell’s flashbacks with Chris, and some sentimentality, too. ‘Destroyer’ Review: A Very Good Nicole Kidman Plays a Very Bad Woman 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z And beneath the surface cynicism MacFarlane sells so aggressively is a river of soppy sentimentality that drowns the picture in the late innings. 'Ted': Bear comes to life, stuffed with bad behavior 2012-06-27T21:39:04Z God, I was so fed up with Jason's character's syrupy sentimentality, I was actually really pleased when he had his heart attack. TV review: The Nativity; Come Rain Come Shine 2010-12-21T08:00:01Z Forget heartfelt final words, brimming eyes or eleventh hour sentimentality. Farewell to David Letterman, 'a force of nature' 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z He avoided sentimentality in the slower sections and performed with appropriate vigor in the more turbulent moments. Music Review: From a Chair, Not a Bench, Exploring Brahms?s Poetry 2011-01-23T22:51:13Z We're off to the borders of the North Sea, a setting which stpauli says is "brought convincingly to life without sentimentality or lazy assumptions". Reader reviews roundup 2012-12-14T16:12:56Z The recipe for modern family entertainment also calls for a dollop of strained sentimentality, here provided by challenges, internal and external, to Sherman and Mr. Peabody’s domestic harmony. Movie Review: ‘Mr. Peabody & Sherman’ Reboots the Time Machine 2014-03-06T13:00:01Z There is no speechifying and no sentimentality: the characters don’t learn a redeeming lesson, offer a political insight or bond in a heartwarming way. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z Any family-based comedy runs the risk of sacrificing humour for sentimentality, yet Burrell insists the show manages to avoid any major misstep in tone. Modern Family man 2012-02-24T08:12:14Z The comedy is more wry than uproarious, the melodrama gently poignant rather than operatic, and the sentimentality just sweet enough to be satisfying rather than bothersome. Movie Review: ‘The Lunchbox,’ With Irrfan Khan: Mumbai Mix-Up 2014-02-27T16:27:45Z Educated white liberals in metropolitan areas embraced Haley’s book and the subsequent NBC miniseries in large numbers, and perhaps with too much sentimentality and not enough critical distance. Fact, fiction and tangled “Roots”: How a family history that wasn’t entirely true broke through America’s biggest lies 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Tellingly, it loses steam when sentimentality creeps in, and eventually concludes with an earnest singalong of a Yule classic. Review: ‘Who’s Holiday!’ Is a Raunchy Riff on Dr. Seuss’s Yuletide Tale 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z This environment gave artists few choices: sentimentality, nihilism, or irony. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z But other artists might let these motifs land with mawkish sentimentality. Kehlani’s Journey of Healing 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z I doubt it’s just sentimentality that has so many people on Twitter today declaring that they wish he’d got away with the money. The Unforgettable Villainy of Alan Rickman in “Die Hard” 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z At this point, the film totters into a redemptive sentimentality that wouldn’t even play if it were made to seem more earned. Review: ‘The Sense of an Ending,’ and the Elusiveness of Truth 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Ambler, better known as a writer of spy fiction, crafted an incisive screenplay lacking in sentimentality. The best Titanic film isn't "Titanic" 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z And yet it’s her surprising brutality that kills off any germs of sentimentality in her work. Anne Tyler’s new novel feels familiar, but that’s actually a good thing 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z The monologue erred on the side of sentimentality, but Mr. Pisoni underplayed it, and his hands moved with an eloquent grace. Review: 5 Short Plays, Up-Close and Unsettled, Purposely 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Privileged women of the 1800s preferred to elevate rationality and sentimentality — their minds, not their flesh. A Historian Looks at Pregnancy and Mothering Through the Ages 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The movie accentuates the positive without descending into mawkish sentimentality, although here and there it comes close. ‘Pride’ Shows the Alliance of a Gay Group and Mineworkers 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Though he veers toward more sentimentality than Davies, they both illustrate class divides as well as moral and sexual divisions. ‘Gay Directors, Gay Films?’ review: Onscreen depiction of sexuality 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Then, toward the end, the show veered unexpectedly into sentimentality with an assist from a group of adorable young children who scampered onstage and announced themselves as representatives of the future. A Splashy, Messy All-Naked Revue 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Nor does the show ever quite make peace between its uneasily twinned strands of merciless cynicism and a softer sentimentality. Review: Chita Rivera Stars in Kander and Ebb’s ‘The Visit’ 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The big stuff and the small stuff have to stand somehow in relation to each other; Dubus must navigate between melodrama and sentimentality. He Killed Her Mother. Now He Wants to Make Amends. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Even in the happiest moments, Ms. Lavin resisted sentimentality or melodrama, trusting that the material and her intelligent, matter-of-fact interpretations would convey a hard-won joyfulness. Review: Linda Lavin, Scratching Out Fresh Starts, at 54 Below 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Garrett Lerner and Russel Friend, writing partners from “House,” created this exercise in choreographed, multi-strand nostalgia, and it has some of the emotional frostiness and processed sentimentality of that earlier show. The Fall TV Season Is Back, Smaller Than Ever 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z This shallow, agreeably chipper comedy steers a careful middle ground between sentimentality and farce. Movie Review: Jane Fonda in Stéphane Robelin’s ‘All Together’ 2012-10-19T00:08:53Z “We don’t have anything to be angry about any more, and so we’re going through a revival of sentimentality, a return to the home and the family unit.” Sylvester Stallone: the wacky people's champ who battled his own ego 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Indeed, there are veins of Anne Lamott running through these pages, a sweet blend of sentimentality and wit. ‘Days of Awe’ review: A novel of grief and humor 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Devoid of sentimentality and self-congratulation, it is a powerful reminder that unsung everyday heroes are everywhere. 2011 Films: ?Melancholia,? ?Tree of Life,? ?Moneyball? 2011-12-17T02:03:03Z The commentary on social and economic change becomes too direct at times, but for the most part, the layers of Bolger's text balance the polemical with the personal, skirting sentimentality. The Parting Glass 2010-07-06T20:45:00Z Patterson and Savage navigate the tricky material with finesse and not too much sentimentality, and they mostly pull off an ambitious, dangerously heavy ending. The Fall TV Season Is Back, Smaller Than Ever 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The temptation might be to bathe the play in a warm glow of nostalgic sentimentality. The White Guard | Theatre review 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z It was a stimulating experience, devoid of melancholy or sentimentality on either side. Oliver Stone and Tariq Ali: brothers in arms 2010-07-26T20:31:00Z Pufahl’s voice is strikingly solid, timeworn but not nostalgic, as she unravels a cinematic story that avoids genre clichés or sentimentality. Love, Sex and Atom Bombs in a Debut Novel of the American West 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z But it also strikes a balance - fond but clear-eyed, fetishistic in its attention to period detail yet devoid of sentimentality. ArtsBeat: Venice Film Festival: Olivier Assayas Returns to the 1970s 2012-09-06T18:10:37Z But at least the show steers clear of the sentimentality that can be a seasonal hazard. Review | If you want to steer clear of Scrooge, two stages provide different holiday fare 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Each player has their own distinct touch, and inside Leppin’s compositions, the collective seemed to be approaching maximum sensitivity, generating momentum without grandeur, cultivating intimacy without sentimentality. Review | Janel Leppin’s Ensemble Volcanic Ash is making a jazzlike sound you can look forward to 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z She was a character who turned cynicism and a lack of sentimentality into a kind of sport, even if one could sense a humane, vulnerable side beneath the spiky shell. “Better Things,” Pamela Adlon’s Unlikely Ode to Single Motherhood 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z The second feature film by Delaporte, who got her start in documentaries, avoids slipping into sentimentality while making its unlikely plot seem plausible, largely on the strength of understated, nuanced performances by its three principles. Classical music meets soccer in 'Last Hammer Blow' at Venice 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z What counts is the way Stanwyck plays the role without a jot of sentimentality, and how Ryan frantically clutches at her as if he were drowning, begging Mae to save him. Film: Making Hollywood Films Was Brutal, Even for Fritz Lang 2011-01-23T02:19:11Z As a loud-and-proud champion of the Richard Curtis epic — which tells nine interwoven stories over 2 hours 16 minutes — Matthews has a high tolerance for its fanciful sentimentality. Chris Matthews is America’s greatest champion of ‘Love Actually.’ So we watched it with him. 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z Waldman recognizes the tragedy of 9/11 without indulging in sentimentality. 'The Submission': the lingering tragedy of 9/11 2012-04-27T19:57:04Z But Mr. Ackerman writes with less sentimentality, and his use of melodrama is more frugal and controlled. Review: In ‘Green on Blue,’ an Afghan Boy Narrates Story of War 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z What is the difference between love and sentimentality? I love my dog as much as my child 2012-11-10T17:00:00Z The life-after-birth songs are brighter, with a cheekiness in the lyrics to I Am Sorry and Can You Believe It; it's only on Everything Wrong that Wainwright gets everything wrong, by plunging into sentimentality. Martha Wainwright: Come Home to Mama – review 2012-10-11T21:45:01Z I avoid romances and most thrillers, because thoughtfulness is often sacrificed for the sake of sentimentality or “action.” Amanda Knox: By the Book 2013-05-07T18:24:20Z “That this photographic construction would be more marketable to a public still steeped in Victorian sentimentality only adds to Gardner’s malfeasance.” Photographing a nation in motion 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z Here it’s packed into those beginnings of songs before they detonate, but musical sentimentality — as opposed to the merely emotional kind — runs thick in a couple of smart tracks. New Music: Marc Anthony Returns to Salsa; Chris Morrissey Crosses Lines 2013-07-22T21:41:19Z Still, writer and director avoid miring “The Great Wilderness” in melodrama or sentimentality. ‘A Great Wilderness’: a crisis of faith, identity 2014-01-24T17:52:35Z The story is a fiction that Hugh needs to believe in, even though his kids reject the sentimentality. How The Haunting of Hill House conveys the horror of family 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z That Coates’ book is addressed to his son doesn’t betray this lack of sentimentality. A grand theory of anti-blackness: The unflinching and profound terror in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World and Me” 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Linden and Orbach enter the world of this tale without a trace of sentimentality. Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Until the very end, when the plot takes too slick a turn, “Brotherhood” is without sentimentality. | 'Brotherhood': Gay-Bashing Neo-Nazis Struggle With Homosexuality 2010-08-05T23:09:00Z My dissatisfaction may seem steeped in sentimentality or a cluelessness about the age. Teaching civility: two daring assignments But where does sentimentality end and hoarding begin? Inside the strange world of "Hoarders" 2010-09-06T20:01:00Z Stipe says that looking back leads to nostalgia which leads to sentimentality — and then laughs, recognizing that while he’s averse to those emotions, he is also the guy who wrote “Everybody Hurts.” Salon’s Michael Stipe exclusive: “Looking back is something I’m not that good at” 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z And he negotiates the show's occasional dips into sentimentality with aplomb. A night with 'The Addams Family' scares up laughs 2012-10-27T02:16:04Z A few laughs and a nice way of pulling things back when sentimentality looms. Tonight's TV highlights 2010-10-05T06:59:00Z Especially in the prickly relationship of Ani and Eddie, it suppresses sentimentality like a lead apron. Review: In ‘Cost of Living,’ a Familiar Alienation 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z |
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