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Letter "S" » sentimental
«We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.»
«The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to deve»
Author: George William Curtis
| About:
Christianity,
Civilization,
Women
| Keywords:
dark ages, estimate, goddess, Great Goddess, increasing, savages, sentimental, toy
«The job of the poet is to render the world - to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.»
Author: Mark van Doren
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Feelings,
Jobs,
Poets
| Keywords:
perversion, perversions, render, report, report it, sentimental
«This sentimental comedy by the Soviet playwright Aleksei Arbuzov is said to have had a great success in its own country. So do fringed lamp shades.»
Author: Richard Eder
| About:
Comedy
| Keywords:
fringe, fringed, fringes, lamp, playwright, playwrights, sentimental, shades, soviet
«The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. I now see the hierarchical as both beautiful and necessary. Efficiency liberates; egalitarianism tangles, delays, blocks, deadens.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
deaden, deadened, deadening, deadens, efficiency, egalitarianism, hierarchical, persuaded, sentimental, tangles, trauma
«Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It is the theory that the experiences undergone by boys at the great public schools, their glories and disappointments, are so intense as to dominate their lives and to arrest their development. From these it results that the greater part of the ruling class remains adolescent, school-minded, self-conscious, cowardly, sentimental, and in the last analysis homosexual.»
Author: Cyril Connolly
| Keywords:
adolescence, arrest, arrested development, class feeling, cowardly, deduce, deduced, disappointments, dominate, Eton, glories, ruling, ruling class, school system, self-conscious, sentimental, theory of, The Ruling Class, undergone
«To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness»
«The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
addicted, Brahms, dressing, Handel, intolerable, prolonged, sentimental, tiresomely, Voluptuaries, voluptuary
«What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.»
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