As the French newspaper Le Monde, never one for trans-Atlantic sentimentalism, proclaimed later on, we were all Americans that day.

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Devoid of grown-up sentimentalism, his images can be overwhelming, especially those that show how that innocence falters in an adult world.

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But I am afraid that would be to perpetuate the kind of lazy sentimentalism that has seen so much taxpayer's money wasted over the last decade.

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Conservative MP Nick Boles is also urging a significant further scaling back of tax credits and housing benefit, and a re-examination of the "lazy sentimentalism" of the Sure Start programme of children's centres.

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