Todd Gilchrist of IGN said he thinks the key to The Simpsons < nowiki >'</ nowiki > longevity is its " sentimental but not gooey " approach to storytelling and character development.

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.

Richard Hofstadter has traced the sentimental attachment to the rural way of life, which he describes as " a kind of homage that Americans have paid to the fancied innocence of their origins.

By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called " royalty ballads ", which publishers would pay popular singers to perform in Britain and the United States in " ballad concerts.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

That music of youth, with its little sins and absurdities that almost point out the sentimental affectation … appears to me like the carvings in the Alhambra, those peculiar arabesques that say nothing with their turns and shapes, but which are like the air, like the sun, like the blackbirds or like the nightingales of its gardens.

In 1919 Irving Babbitt, founder of a movement called the " New Humanism ", wrote a critique of what he called " sentimental humanitarianism ", for which he blamed Rousseau.

The distinctive quality of Achard's plays was their dreamlike mood of sentimental melancholy, underscored by the very titles which were primarily taken from popular bittersweet songs of the day.

His reputation for being sentimental is based largely on the movie versions of the musicals, especially The Sound of Music, in which a song sung by those in favour of reaching an accommodation with the Nazis, " No Way to Stop It ", was cut.

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.

The live actors provide a sentimental frame story, in which Uncle Remus relates the folk tales of the adventures of Br ' er Rabbit and his friends.

Garson starred with Joan Crawford in When Ladies Meet in 1941, and that same year became a major box office star with the sentimental Technicolor drama, Blossoms in the Dust, which brought her the first of five consecutive Best Actress Oscar nominations, tying Bette Davis ' 1938-42 record, a record that still stands.

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.

Kitsch also refers to the types of art that are aesthetically deficient ( whether or not being sentimental, glamorous, theatrical, or creative ) and that make creative gestures which merely imitate the superficial appearances of art through repeated conventions and formulae.

Logan wrote that he simply had to eliminate pieces of business which director Ferrer had inserted in his staging ; they presumably were intended to sabotage the more sentimental elements of the play that the director considered to be corny and in bad taste.

) The park, which closed in 1984, held sentimental value for many local residents and enjoyed a degree of historical significance.

The Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais managed to create a sentimental moment in the massacre in his painting A Huguenot on St. Bartholomew's Day ( 1852 ), which depicts a Catholic woman attempting to convince her Huguenot lover to wear the white scarf badge of the Catholics and protect himself.

Next, Steele wrote The Lying Lover, which was one of the first sentimental comedies, but was a failure on stage.

It was sentimental, rather than economical grounds which resulted in the retention of the ferries, after much public protest to keep them.

In turn, Harry offends the man and his wife by criticizing the wife's picture of Goethe, which Harry feels is too thickly sentimental and insulting to Goethe's true brilliance.

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.

They hit # 3 in the UK with another girl-group cover " Sha La La ", ( originally by the Shirelles ) which also reached # 12 in the U. S. and Canada and followed with the sentimental " Come Tomorrow " but both were of a noticeably lighter texture than their earliest output.

Although the work of Edward Burne-Jones was exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery which promoted the movement, it also contains narrative and conveys moral or sentimental messages hence it falls outside the given definition.

With his brother Friedrich, Schlegel founded Athenaeum ( 1798 – 1800 ), the organ of the Romantic school, in which he dissected disapprovingly the immensely popular works of the sentimental novelist August Lafontaine.

Upon the death of the Comte de Mirabeau in April 1791, Desmoulins ( to whom Mirabeau had, at one time, been a great patron and friend ) countered the predominantly sentimental and forgiving eulogies that appeared in the Parisian press by publishing a brutal attack in which he declared the late Mirabeau to be the " god of orators, liars, and thieves.

With the poems Musarion oder die Philosophie der Grazien ( 1768 ), Idris ( 1768 ), Combabus ( 1770 ), Der neue Amadis ( 1771 ), Wieland opened the series of light and graceful romances in verse which appealed so irresistibly to his contemporaries and acted as an antidote to the sentimental excesses of the subsequent Sturm und Drang movement.

One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.

Although the book is unabashedly sentimental, it also depicts the sweeping social changes that Chips experiences throughout his life: he begins his tenure at Brookfield in 1870, as the Franco-Prussian War is breaking out and lies on his deathbed shortly after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

" One literary critic said that had the novel not been about slavery, " it would be just another sentimental novel ," while another described the book as " primarily a derivative piece of hack work.

Losing an established and sentimental smell memory ( e. g. the smell of grass, of the grandparents ' attic, of a particular book, of loved ones, or of oneself ) has been known to cause feelings of depression.

In this post-script, Nietzsche referred to The Birth of Tragedy as " an impossible book ... badly written, ponderous, embarrassing, image-mad and image-confused, sentimental, saccharine to the point of effeminacy, uneven in tempo, without the will to logical cleanliness.

" On the other hand, Los Angeles Times book critic David L. Ulin, while acknowledging that it is " perhaps the most celebrated baseball book of the last 50 years ", omitted it from his own 2011 list of best baseball books, saying he found it " too sentimental, too sugary, when the Brooklyn Dodgers teams Kahn describes were anything but.

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.

In the book Guest is mocked as a " writer of limited skill, who wrote awkward, tedious poetry on hopelessly sentimental topics " ( The Grim Grotto ( 2004 ) page 281 ).

The letters, in book form, set a precedent for sentimentalism in European culture at large, and for the literary genres of the sentimental novel and the epistolary novel, into the 18th century, such as the " Lettres persanes " by Montesquieu ( 1721 ), " Lettres péruviennes " by Françoise de Graffigny ( 1747 ) and " Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse )" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1761 ).

The book shows dangers of people's romantic nature and reading sentimental masterpieces, which do not show the real world.

In his book Truffaut On Truffaut, Truffaut later said, " For my part, the French episode gave me the occasion to realize a project I hadn't dared to launch on my own, a short sequel to my first film, The 400 Blows, in which we would meet up with the young Antoine Doinel three years later having his first sentimental adventure, one that would illustrate the moral: you risk losing everything by wanting too much.

In 1854, she published the novel The Lamplighter, a sentimental book which was widely popular and which made its author well-known.

The book is considered sentimental and written to provoke an emotional response and sympathy from the reader toward slavery in general and slave women in particular for the struggles they went through, with rape, the pressure to have sex at an early age, the selling of their children, and the treatment of female slaves by their mistresses.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is strongly tied to Harriet Beecher Stowe ’ s book Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin, published in 1852, in terms of themes ; both were written as sentimental anti-slavery books.

Writing in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Mara E. Donaldson of the University of Virginia commented that Adler's book provided an " extensive study of paganism " that " demythologizes " the movement " without being sentimental or self-righteous.

Far from being on the subject of ghosts and the supernatural, Morton's book is instead a sentimental portrait of historic London juxtaposed with contemporary ( 1930s ) London.

When it was published, New York Times book reviewer Orville Prescott called it " as fresh and engaging, tender and touching a book as ever was called sentimental by callous wretches ...

Upon the outbreak of war, this book was used as the basis for a patriotic and sentimental film about Mrs Miniver, released in 1942, which won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

In his book Drawn to Television – Prime-time Animation from the Flintstones to Family Guy, Keith Booker wrote: " The episode details in a rather sentimental fashion the early struggles of the irresponsible Homer to support his new family [...] Such background episodes add an extra dimension to the portrayal of the animated Simpson family, making them seem oddly real and adding weight to their status as a family with a long history together.

Their travels by tandem bicycle were turned into the book Our sentimental journey through France and Italy ( 1888 ).

" The episode was placed eighth on AskMen. com's " Top 10: Simpsons Episodes " list, and in his book Planet Simpson, Chris Turner named the episode as being one of his five favorites, although he found the ending too sentimental.

The object of this book was to satirize Samuel Richardson's hero Sir Charles Grandison, who had many sentimental admirers in the Holy Roman Empire.