Ira is portrayed as a sentimentalist who is viscerally and passionately indignant about the inherent inequalities and injustices of America. |
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Ultimately, he is surprisingly reminiscent of the incurable sentimentalist, forever seeking comfort and reassurance for his damaged inner child. |
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Remember, this is the man that described himself as a sentimentalist, not a romantic. |
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The composer can mistake cuteness for cleverness, and like any unabashed sentimentalist, he's often a stone's throw from mawkishness. |
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But it would be quite wrong to conclude from her subject matter that she was a soft-centered, weak sentimentalist. |
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I come clean in admitting I am a soppy sentimentalist at heart. |
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But he is no sentimentalist, and never shies from the harsh realities of that lonely spot. |
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The musician never added his own personality, but he simply transmitted the music to his fellowmen of that inaccessible sentimentalist pursuit. |
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But it would be unfair to characterise Daldry as a proselytiser, or even as a sentimentalist. |
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Mr Hester, no asset-stripper but no sentimentalist either, is aware of this. |
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Prose fiction made its appearance at the end of the century in the works of the sentimentalist Nikolay Karamzin. |
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Well, Marcus Tanner is certainly no sentimentalist but I can't stamp my seal on this last self-assessment. |
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That sadness, I am learning, is the province of the sentimentalist. |
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I like to have my tears jerked as much as the next sloppy sentimentalist. |
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The emotionally blundering sentimentalist dewily loves humanity in general while falling in miserable love with a monotonous succession of human beings in particular, each somehow exactly wrong. |
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Call me a softheaded sentimentalist, but I was surprised at that attitude, a bit scandalized, in fact. |
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But he thinks that the sentimentalist owes us an account of how a sense of justice that is sometimes opposed to benevolence and sympathy can nonetheless develop out of such motives. |
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He is a born sentimentalist and seems to have a strong family instinct which inclines him to adopt and cherish all the small dogs of the neighbourhood. |
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Manetas: a sentimentalist who ignores himself. |
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