Many users also favor a fountain pen's air of timeless elegance, personalization and sentimentality, which computers and ballpoint pens seem to lack, and often state that once they start using fountain pens, ballpoints become awkward to use due to the extra motor effort needed and lack of expressiveness.

One could say he implicitly was rejecting kitsch, the presence of sentimentality and the lack of originality being the main accusations against it.

Sermons was criticized for its sentimentality and lack of doctrinal definiteness and it failed to adapt to changing tastes.

Without the absolute, the relative can degenerate into pity and sentimentality, whereas the absolute without the relative can lead to nihilism and lack of desire to engage other sentient beings for their benefit.

A pioneering predecessor of regionalist authors Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Kate Chopin, as well as a precursor of American modernism, Stoddard's writing is remarkable for its almost total lack of sentimentality, pervasive use of irony, psychological depth of richly drawn characters, intense atmospheric descriptions of New England, concise language, and innovative use of narrative voice and structure.

His writing is also characterised by a lack of sentimentality about the animals it describes ; Williamson is generally careful to avoid anthropomorphising them and rarely attempts to present any but their most basic or instinctual mental processes.

" Although she once had a crush on David Larrabee, the young playboy of the family, and returns to America with a wealthy French suitor in tow, she finds herself drawn to Linus Larrabee, whose intelligence, lack of sentimentality, and knowledge of the world stimulates her.

" Lou Stathis argues that it is Willeford's " complete lack of sentimentality and melodrama that sets him apart from the pack of so-called ' tough-guy ' writers .... Willeford's prose is as flat-toned and evenly cadenced — as emotionally neutral — as the blank visages of his feigned-human socio / psychopaths ... the careful accretion of detail adding up to an incontrovertible truth of insight.

The clearances followed patterns of agricultural change throughout Britain, but were particularly notorious as a result of the late timing, the lack of legal protection for year-by-year tenants under Scots law, the abruptness of the change from the traditional clan system, and the brutality of many evictions.

In October 1999 the U. S. Affiliate of Amnesty International issued a report " Summary of Amnesty International's concerns on police abuse in Chicago " summarizing on-going concerns, including those relating to brutality and improper tactics or coercion during questioning ; the detention and interrogation of children in police custody ; allegations of excessive force against suspects ; the shooting of unarmed suspects ; the disproportionate number of victims who are members of ethnic or racial minorities ; the inadequacy of police complaints and disciplinary procedures and the lack of any external oversight of the complaints process.

The demonstrations and riots were reported to have started over police brutality, state of emergency laws, unemployment, desire to raise the minimum wage, lack of housing, food inflation, corruption, lack of freedom of speech, and poor living conditions.

Nevertheless, tens of thousands rose in the surrounding counties but the resulting rebellion was severely hampered by the lack of leadership and was crushed with vicious brutality.

His plays were widely and wildly hated for their scant respect to royalty, religion and society, their vulgarity and scatology, their brutality and low comedy, and their perceived utter lack of literary finish.

Many of the Division's Temporary Cadets did not cope well with the frustrations of counterinsurgency: hurriedly recruited, poorly trained, and with an ill-defined role, they soon gained a reputation for drunkenness, lack of discipline, and brutality worse than that of the Black and Tans.

While they lack the education of more advanced races, Orcs possess immense cunning and are quick learners, but rarely adopt new tactics to replace their fondness for close quarters brutality.

The American prison system was shaken by a series of riots in the early 1950s triggered by deficiencies of prison facilities, lack of hygiene or medical care, poor food quality, and guard brutality.

Not only did the brutality instigated by Goebbels evoke harsh criticism internationally, the mixed reaction in the German media evidenced a lack of broad-based support among Germans for antisemitic violence.

Gallagher informs the astonished LAPD detectives of DeVries ' brutality and lack of regard for human life: on the way from Seattle, within a span of only two weeks, DeVries has robbed eight banks, six supermarkets, four jewelry stores and a candy shop, wounded 23 people and murdered 12 ; six of them were mutilated with a butcher knife and two victims were children.

Only imcomplete, imperfect things move towards what they lack.

It is more than just lack of dance training that is our problem, for just as gymnastics can learn from dance, dance has some very important things to learn from gymnastics.

in working with these patients the therapist eventually gets to do some at least private mulling over of the possible meaning of a belch, or the passage of flatus, not only because he is reduced to this for lack of anything else to analyze, but also because he learns that even these animal-like sounds constitute forms of communication in which, from time to time, quite different things are being said, long before the patient can become sufficiently aware of these, as distinct feelings and concepts, to say them in words.

While there were visible signs of damage, in the vegetation and an apparent lack of construction in some places, the Island was bustling again as some things had been freshly re-built and those that were not were quite on their way.

On this level, the term indicates a lack of satisfaction, a sense that things never measure up to our expectations or standards.

* On this level, the term indicates a lack of satisfaction, a sense that things never measure up to our expectations or standards.

Dukkha indicates a lack of satisfaction, a sense that things never measure up to our expectations or standards.

His concept of " egoistic property " not only a lack of moral restraint on how own obtains and uses things, but includes other people as well.

A lack of these things shows a lack of understanding, and some dislike not having this understanding.

Apparently, things were not expected to change during the fourth season ; in a May 2005 posting at the TrekBBS, Clark explained that the lack of Enterprise novels was intended to avoid any further potential storytelling " land mines " since " Season Four kept doing stuff we wanted / planned to do ".

Among other things, Scholem noticed the Zohar's frequent errors in Aramaic grammar, its suspicious traces of Spanish words and sentence patterns, and its lack of knowledge of the land of Israel.

Among other things, this language is alleged to lack all evidence for recursion, including embedded clauses, as well as quantifiers and color terms.

Along with each mark a " comment " is given, which can describe things a rider and horse lack during the movement, or what they have.

The young man saith unto him, All these things have I observed: what lack I yet?

Conservative in politics and social matters, he accepted things as they were and displayed a lack of idealism.

In this description, on the other hand, although there are many elements of the description that we could transfer directly from the grounds to the suitor ( natural beauty, lack of artifice ), Austen is emphasizing the consistency of the domain of use rather than stretching to make a fresh comparison: each of the things she describes she associates with Darcy, and in the end we feel that Darcy is as beautiful as the place to which he is compared and that he belongs within it.

Welbach has a girlfriend, Samantha ( Julia Roberts ), who constantly argues with him about, among other things, his lack of commitment to their relationship.

Blasphemy is the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for a religious deity or the irreverence towards religious or holy persons or things.

Nietzsche found fault in the noumenon's lack of definite properties and its complete inability to interact with other things.

The majority leader of the Senate, who he works with on almost a daily basis, or a senator from another party who every day is saying things on the floor that demonstrate a lack of support?

Due to a lack of empirical study, there are no well-documented cases of either of these things occurring.

In the absence of economic safety – due to economic crisis and lack of work opportunities – these safety needs manifest themselves in such things as a preference for job security, grievance procedures for protecting the individual from unilateral authority, savings accounts, insurance policies, reasonable disability accommodations, and the like.

He laments the lack of sources but tries to extract what he can from things such as Caesar's writings on Gaul.