sentimentality

The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English;      29 words ...sentimentality • noun  criticizing the sentimentality of the novels synonyms : emotionalism, overemotionalism, romanticism, mawkishness; inf. mush, slush, soppiness, corniness.

`Bobos in Paradise': Isn't it time for some liberal guilt?

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 18, 2000 ;     700+ words ......in Paradise': Isn't it time for some liberal guilt? By MIKE LITTWIN Sunday, June 18, 2000...overdue, I'd say -- for a heavy dose of liberal guilt, which is, coincidentally, my favorite...the liberal media for indications of liberal guilt. Harper's recently had a cover story...

The fast less chosen: I don't lie around in sackcloth and ashes. But I...

The Other Side;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......and ashes. But I have been known to wallow in a paralyzing liberal guilt that keeps me from doing anything useful. The poor of this...Barbara Brown Taylor has a wonderful description of such liberal guilt--the phenomenon Martin Luther King, Jr., called the paralysis...

Resisting "Bad Taste": Sentimentality, "Jewishness," and Modernity in...

German Quarterly;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......roots: structural incoherence and sentimentality. Structurally, Krner argues, the novel...second reason for the work's failure-sentimentality-is more complex and not wholly unrelated...Schnitzler. Krner divides the aspects of sentimentality in the novel into three categories...

New book denounces Princess Diana, British sentimentality

AP Online;  April 16, 1998 ;     288 words ......are dominated by self-indulgence and sentimentality. ``Today's Britain is not `modern...Princess Diana's funeral, in which sentimentality - mob grief - was personified and...impulse ``the positive side of her sentimentality.'' Lord St. John of Fawsley, a former...

Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal...

Studies in the Humanities;  December 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Korobkin. Criminal Conversations: Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories...pages. Cloth $52.00. Paper $18.50. Sentimentality and Nineteenth-Century Legal Stories...significant because of their close ties to sentimentality, a characteristic that, in Korobkin...

A painful tale of race relations; Joyce Carol Oates tackles the ache of...

The Christian Science Monitor;  October 24, 2006 ;     691 words ......and a Young Adult novel. Now, it's October, and what could have been a stunning examination of race relations and white liberal guilt on a college campus, Black Girl/White Girl, instead feels a little, well, rushed. Generva Genna Meade is the white girl of...

Sentimentality: In the Eye of the Beholder

The Washington Post;  January 30, 1993 ;     389 words ......Miller will not traffic in the cloying sentimentality about `the Lost Cause' - a sentimentality often inversely proportional to the...knickers. I would point out that "cloying sentimentality" is in the eye of the beholder, and...

Liberal guilt likely to scuttle Clinton's bid

Columbia Daily Tribune;  March 18, 2008 ;     685 words ......good reason they might not try, even if she is able to string together a series of primary and caucus victories: Call it liberal guilt, or call it fear of reprisal from the party's powerful black base. Either way, it is very difficult to see the Democratic...

Liberal guilt can put readers in a 'Bind'

Chicago Sun-Times;  February 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Shaye Areheart Books, 368 pages, $25 - - - By Debra Bruno For those who feel they haven't had a powerful-enough serving of liberal guilt lately, I've got a recommendation for you. Here is a book that offers heaping plates of it. Pick your issue: homelessness...

Metco only assuages white liberal guilt

The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA;  March 12, 2007 ;     219 words ...I almost choked upon reading your March 1 editorial, "Metco turns 40," heaping praise upon what is essentially a racist program. I have this vision of your editorial board dancing in a multicultural fog to the '60s-era Elvis Presley ballad "In The Ghetto." Metco is a program which specifically

The rise of Obama; A response to white liberal guilt?(OPED)(POLITICAL...

The Washington Times;  December 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Steve Sailer, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES One Democratic presidential contender has an inherently fascinating family history: Not only does our largest minority group furnish most of his ancestry, but he was also raised in the capital of a foreign country of enormous importance to

Incendiary warning of terrorists within; Liberal guilt: Will Keen...

The Daily Mail (London, England);  November 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Quentin Letts The Arsonists (Royal Court) Verdict: A sparky parable The Giant (Hampstead Theatre) Verdict: A plod round the block ** STRONG play, sorry timing. The Royal Court Theatre's latest exercise in hittingits liberal middle-class clientele in the solar plexusa welcome development

A Lott of diversion, with no dignity; White liberal guilt can be as...

The Washington Times;  December 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Suzanne Fields, THE WASHINGTON TIMES When the telephone rang, I looked up from my newspaper, which was awash with news of the Trent Lott fiasco. The call was from the daughter of a former housekeeper. I had known her from the day she was born. She was 34 now, the mother of a son, a daughter

Volvo 760: Built For Liberal Guilt

The Washington Post;  June 3, 1988 ;     587 words ...The 1988 Volvo 760 GLE is the perfect car for monied liberals. It comes with all the accountrements of a luxury sedan, but none of the guilt. The leathered plushmobile is equipped with pious humility. But Volvo's publicists would have us believe otherwise "If the name `Volvo' evokes images of