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The story is a sentimental romantic tale of a young Irish woman, Kathleen Dungannon.
His Essais en vers et en prose ( Attempts in Verse and Prose, 1797 ) contains the Marseillaise ; a prose tale Adelaide et Monville of the sentimental kind ; and some occasional poems.
* " The Ugliest Man in the World ," a sentimental tale of a hideously deformed man seeking love in a cruel world, inspired by Boris Karloff's typecasting in horror roles.
" Philip French of The Observer described it as " a well-meaning but almost totally unconvincing tale ... a sentimental mess ," while Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian stated, " This film struck me as sucrose and false when it premiered at last year's Cannes film festival.
It is a fairy tale in which Tony Gatlif turns out to be sentimental painter.

sentimental and love
For the late 19th century the music publishing industry found a market for what are often termed sentimental ballads, and these are the origin of the modern use of the term ballad to mean a slow love song.
By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to signify a slow, sentimental tune or love song, often written in a fairly standardized form ( see below ).
Several volumes of letters were published after his death, as was Journal to Eliza, a more sentimental than humorous love letter to a woman Sterne was courting during the final years of his life.
The affair between Francesco and Lucrezia was passionate, more sexual than sentimental as can be attested in the fevered love letters the pair wrote one another.
The sentimental novel depicts the reality of slavery while also asserting that Christian love can overcome something as destructive as enslavement of fellow human beings.
Pyramus and Thisbē are two characters of Roman mythology, whose love story of ill-fated lovers is also a sentimental romance.
The patterns used often featured heart-shaped designs, or included a sentimental expression of love spelled out in small shells.
Critics of salsa romántica, especially in the late 80s and early 90s, called it a commercialized, diluted form of Latin pop, in which formulaic, sentimental love ballads were simply put to Afro-Cuban rhythms — leaving no room for classic salsa's brilliant musical improvisation, or for classic salsa lyrics that tell stories of daily life or provide social and political commentary.
Captain Georges is the nostalgic account of a wealthy young man's sentimental education and love for a peasant girl, a theme also explored earlier in his films Diary of a Chambermaid and Picnic on the Grass.
In the summer of 1944 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was nominated for a fourth term as President of the United States and Gray ( who had little love for Roosevelt ) killed off Warbucks in a month-long sequence of sentimental pathos.
Several more Top 10 hits followed, the most successful of which was the ballad " Hello " ( 1984 ), a sentimental love song that showed how far Richie had moved from his R & B roots.
Since Legenda Aurea still provided no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single.
He published a sentimental love story, Nogiku no haka (" The Wild Daisy ", 1906 ) in the literary magazine Hototogisu.
Gilbert, who has always loved Anne, proposes to her, but she rejects him ultimately because Anne's vision of love is rooted deeply in sentimental fantasies and she does not recognize her closeness to Gilbert as love.
His earliest known poem, titled Mother's Day 1938 was an earnest, if sentimental, profession of love.
Themes are often sentimental and include love, death and loneliness.
The disposition to sentimental melancholy inherited from his mother, stimulated by disappointments in love and by the prevailing fashion of the romantic school of poetry, descended into gloom after his mother's death in 1829.
The film features both erotic encounters and sentimental love poems ( quoted from the book ), and during one love scene a poetic line emerges in which Lilly is an Aimée to Felice as Jaguar.
The term is often used in a derogatory fashion, describing emotions which are shallow and transient in comparison to other forms of love such as romantic love: " calf-love ... a sickly, sentimental dream which only a moonstruck fool could have created !".
Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight, young with older love, unrequited love, obsessive love, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love explosive and destructive love, and tragic love.

sentimental and triumphant
* Melodrama – sentimental drama with musical underscoring, often with an unlikely plot that concerns the suffering of the good at the hands of evildoers but ends happily with good triumphant.
In journalism, stories, and poetry written during the first postrevolutionary years ( 1918 – 1922 ), Platonov interwove ideas about human mastery over nature with skepticism about triumphant human consciousness and will, and a sentimental and even erotic love of physical things with a fear and attendant abhorrence of matter.

sentimental and over
The old Belasco Theater, over which many people had grown sentimental, was only a shell of its former self after arduous years as a USO Center.
It has been read as a family drama that validates virtue over wealth .” Little Women has been read “ as a means of escaping that life by women who knew its gender constraints only too well .” Alcott “ combines many conventions of the sentimental novel with crucial ingredients of Romantic children ’ s fiction, creating a new form of which Little Women is a unique model .” Elbert argued that within Little Women can be found the first vision of the “ American Girl ” and that her multiple aspects are embodied in the differing March sisters.
" He reportedly chose Matthew's Gospel over the others because he had decided that " John was too mystical, Mark too vulgar, and Luke too sentimental.
When the play was first produced, it was discussed as an example of the revival of laughing comedy over the sentimental comedy seen as dominant on the English stage since the success of The Conscious Lovers, written by Sir Richard Steele in 1722.
In the same year, an essay in a London magazine, entitled " An Essay On The Theatre ; Or, A Comparison Between Laughing And Sentimental Comedy ", suggested that sentimental comedy, a false form of comedy, had taken over the boards from the older and more truly comic laughing comedy.
With a higher preference of handmade gifts during the 19th century over purchased or commercial items, homemade cards carried high sentimental value as gifts alone.
For example, in his memoir Eastern Approaches, Fitzroy Maclean describes the song's effect in the spring of 1942 during the Western Desert Campaign: n " Husky, sensuous, nostalgic, sugar-sweet, her voice seemed to reach out to you, as she lingered over the catchy tune, the sickly sentimental words.
In the introduction to a published edition of the plays, Coward wrote, " A short play, having a great advantage over a long one in that it can sustain a mood without technical creaking or over padding, deserves a better fate, and if, by careful writing, acting and producing I can do a little towards reinstating it in its rightful pride, I shall have achieved one of my more sentimental ambitions.
The Age of Reform ( 1955 ) analyzes the yeoman ideal in America ’ s sentimental attachment to agrarianism and the moral superiority of the farm over the city.
It contains only about seven brief erotic scenes in a sentimental story the size of a long novel ( an all-ages version was also released afterward ), but the enthusiasm of the response was unprecedented, and Kanon sold over 300, 000 copies.
Arriving with the advent of electro-magnetic recording, Austin, along with Rudy Vallee, Art Gillham, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Cliff Edwards, adopted an intimate, radio-friendly, close-miked style that took over from the more sentimental style of tenor vocals popularized by such singers as Henry Burr and Billy Murray.
Charmed by the character of Pippa, Alfred Noyes pronounced Pippa Passes to be Browning's best, but even the sentimental passages of the work had not been able to win over all Victorian critics.
For over a century after the war, Irish Catholics maintained a sentimental attachment to the Jacobite cause, portraying James and the Stuarts as the rightful monarchs who would have given a just settlement to Ireland, including self-government, restoration of confiscated lands and tolerance for Catholicism.
The last one starts with prehistory, in the Lascaux caves, lasts over the age of Greek and Roman antiquity, the days of Gothic cathedrals, Renaissance painting and sentimental gardens.
His best selling piece, a sentimental ballad called " Sweet and Low ", sold over a million copies.
Considered by some to be over sentimental by modern tastes, it contains a sincerity and dedication which, despite being a definite product of its time, has carried the piece through to the modern era.
It contains only about 7 brief erotic scenes in a sentimental story the size of a long novel ( an all-ages version was also released afterward ), but the enthusiasm of the response was unprecedented, and Kanon sold over 300, 000 copies.
The sentimental ballad was recorded toward the end of 1950 by Guy Mitchell with Mitch Miller and his orchestra, in a recording issued by Columbia Records as catalog number 39067, which sold over a million copies and reached # 2 on the Billboard charts in 1951.
Hélisenne de Crenne's novel is a unique blending of sentimental and chivalric elements ( at the end of the novel, Athena — who sees the work in terms of battles and combats — and Venus — who sees the work in terms of love — fight over the book ), humanist scholarship, orality and eloquence.

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