Sentences with phrase «from sentimental»

Yet they are far from sentimental and she readily stripped her sitters of their masks, foregrounding rather the incongruous, the awkward, and, at times, the comical — Neel was a self - proclaimed admirer of Honoré Daumier.

Yet they are far from sentimental and she readily stripped her sitters of their masks, foregrounding rather the incongruous, the awkward, and, at times, the comical.

There were many single vote getters, from the sentimental («my husband,» «my dad,» «my English teacher from high school») to the counterintuitive («Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith,» and «Barry Manilow»).

This is far from a sentimental film.

Scene by scene, what McKenzie is after is capturing the process of a young woman walling herself off from sentimental appeal in order to save her own life, steeling herself for the long walk away from the wreck of her man.

It is filled with feeling and far from sentimental or cloying, with a beautiful score enhancing the melancholia.

On the down side, the writing isn't very good, and the score ranges from sentimental to bombastic.

From sentimental to sassy, these famous lesbians offer a rainbow of perspectives on romance.

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With Spagnola her education went from sentimental to empirical.

Nevertheless, aside from Thierry Henry, from a sentimental point of view, it would be an ideal appointment as Vieira was an integral part of the club's most recent success and is an icon for most supporters.

Aside from the sentimental reasons that I love this time of year, Josh and I have recently realized we are people who are drawn to the cozy.

But then again H. Maynard Smith warns that we are in danger today of passing from a sentimental view of the Middle Ages seen from a sanctuary where the sun irradiates the stained - glass windows, to a realistic view of the Middle Ages as seen from a gutter on a gloomy day.

We must turn away from sentimental concern for current suffering.

Rock was born when popular music shifted from sentimental tributes to puppy love and stolen kisses to brooding reflections on the unsteadiness of sexual desire as a guide through the twisting passages of youth.

His aim is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.

Not exact matches

In 1941, three years after receiving the Mexican financial settlement, the Romneys made a sentimental return to Mexico, retracing the route of Miles P. Romney and his wives from Utah to Arizona to Mexico.

Here, for instance, are the opening lines of a poem from her 2012 collection A Thousand Mornings, the very title of which, «On Traveling to Beautiful Places,» starts playing a sentimental tune:

Pornography... is essentially sentimental, for it leaves out the connection of sex with its hard purpose, and so far disconnects it from its meaning in life as to make it simply an experience for its own sake.

I thought I grew out of the flags and the happy - clappy Jesus - is - my - boyfriend songs, that I was too wise and smart for such sentimental things but in my maturity now I want to shout out hallelujah and fling myself to the ground prostrate, in gratitude for dirt and little boys, for babies and the lines around my eyes, for Johnny Cash and pine trees at dusk, for the taste of cold water and the vineyard, for the piano and the ones from among us who stand to lead us out into the day singing.

But at least she gets this right: «Brideshead mattered so much to Evelyn because he put so much of himself into it: his distance from his father, his sentimental education of Oxford, his early love affairs, his initiation into the aristocratic world of the Lygons [model for the novel's Marchmain family], his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his abortive love affair with the Army....

It doesn't get us anywhere merely to sneer: the young man who denounced the ageing and muddled ladies of a rather sentimental group - whom he had never met - as «feminiNazis» had hoped to raise bellows of raucous laughter from his young hearers but was greeted with silence.

Tracing the course of the author's work from Typee to Billy Budd, Kelley shows convincingly that Melville — though he borrowed from many different sources — belongs completely to none of the established genres of Victorian city writing: the Romantic pastoral that used urban depravity to extol rural virtue; the popular «Reform Literature» of the yellow journalists that sensationalized municipal corruption and disorder; the «scientific» tracts of the emerging city planning movement; or the urban strolls of the flâneur and the Addisonian «spectator» (a genre that reached its peak, for New York, with what Kelley calls the «humorous - genteel - sentimental - melodramatic - ironic» observations of Charles Dickens in his 1842 American Notes).

It means also to remain aloof from many of the moral languages of our time, which are — even at their most sentimental, tender, and tolerant — usually as decadent and egoistic as the currently most fashionable vices.

On the other hand, the notion of God as sentimental niceness — what I have called «smothering love» — springs from the wish of many people to be so completely tolerant that they are unwilling or unable to take a stand on anything.

Lady Susan, a cynical story about a predatory widow's romantic scheming, dates from the mid-1790s, when Austen was approaching twenty; Love and Freindship, a madcap satire of the sentimental novel, was written a few years earlier, when she was a formidably accomplished fourteen - year - old.

Find a map from their hometown, favorite spot or maybe just a place that holds sentimental value between the two of you, and

Find a map from their hometown, favorite spot or maybe just a place that holds sentimental value between the two of you, and create this cool map wallet.

Coming from someone who spends his days manhandling 135 - pound butterflied pigs, that's not as sentimental as it might sound.

In a world where the definitions of love and truth and justice are frequently either sentimental or obscene, Flannery suggests we take a long look at our ultimate view of the world, a view that may just save us from ourselves.

[the Catholic historian Christopher Dawson argued that] both the Protestant north, with its austere religion of individual and interior faith, and a Catholic France, which had resisted the Counter-Reformation, were the seedbeds of modern secularity through their detaching of reason from both faith and imagination, thus liberating it for purely instrumental purposes... His was not a sentimental medievalism....

I'd already met Laura and family on the pages of her Little House novels, and, in the four decades since, scenes from the TV show and passages from those yellow paperbacks have combined in my memory, conjuring a sentimental haze.

I bring the conversation up because it came to mind last week when I was reading about a Christian ethicist so passionately committed to defending the (unmistakably) exceptional nature of human beings that he thinks it necessary to forbid his children any sentimental solicitude for the suffering of beasts, and to disabuse them of the least trace of the dangerous fantasy or pathetic fallacy that animals experience anything analogous to human emotions, motives, or needs; they can not really, he insists, know anxiety, grief, regret, or disappointment, and so we should never allow them to divert our sympathies or ethical longings from their proper object.

To prevent such defections from his own hard - won orthodoxy, the Liberator Devil models himself as the cool hipster ironically detached from whoever and whatever threatens the individual's solitary integrity with sentimental interdictions.

I veered from lengthy theological treatises to sentimental indulgences.

We are touched, not because we look down upon the child from the strength of our height and perfection, but rather because we look upward from the limitation of our [adult] condition (Naïve and Sentimental Poetry (Ungar, 1966), pp. 85, 87].

One regularly hears the complaint that popular belief in heaven smacks of a generic and sentimental spiritualism, far distant from the robust, Christ - centered resurrection faith of classical Christianity.

The Sacred Heart is thus emphatically not just to do with sentimental «feel - good»; it is the outpouring of goodness from the Head ofChrist - the - Word, through whom the Cosmos was formed.

Cupcakes can feature any sort of candy on them from those hearts with sentimental words, to red candy hearts, chocolate, sprinkles, gumballs and gummy bears.

I sob when I read books, cried at every episode of Parenthood, tear up when I listen to a sentimental song, and generally feel confused about where this abundance of feeling came from!

Christmastime holds many of my most cherished and vivid memories from childhood, and as I grow older and more sentimental, I realize increasingly why: not because of the material goods or the delicious food, but because it's a time of gratitude and giving back and cozy, hygge nights with your loved ones watching Elf or playing fibbage.

I like collecting souvenirs from the places I travel — it's the nostalgic and sentimental part of me that makes me behave this way.

Get to know guard E.C. Matthews as the sentimental star of this team, recovering from a torn ACL last year to have a nice comeback campaign.

What's up with all the sentimental bull from Arsenal?

let's see the thumbs down from the dopey fans who don't simply rate winning mentality type players but rather get all sentimental and hype over average players.

I could see an argument for Chandler or Barnes from a defensive versatility perspective, and Wes is just a fighter and the obvious sentimental pick.

somtyms, we arsenal fans shld stop being sentimental and look at his situation from a neutrals perspective... pple abusing Wenger concerning this summer transfers r first class id * its... 4 d first tym, he's solving all d positional problems we've got and ur not satisfied???? how many English teams have made signings yet??? we've competed 1 (overpayed in fact), placed a bid for another and d transfer window is not officially open... what more do u want... for us to chase messi with a 250m bid b4 u lay off Wenger???? I don't like Wenger when it comes to tactics and stuff and I also don't believe he can move us to d next level but when he's tryn to do d ryt tin, I'll take it

Stubborn sentimental's one size fits all approach is out dated and detrimental to our title charge... should have gone with pace upfront and back and put struggling chelski on the backfoot right from the start.

A sentimental pick from Crooks?