Such questions have dimmed much of the sentimentality attached to America's extraordinary number of centenarians some 70, 000 and rising.
With a gentle touch and a lilting piano score, Kawase effortlessly avoids the sentimentality that often taints Japanese movies.
But the sentimentality in the script oozes insincerity, like it's something that's been grudgingly inserted to please a specific demographic.
One such film is "Colorado Territory" (1949), in which Raoul Walsh transformed his own "High Sierra" (1941), a classic portrait of an aging gangster played by Humphrey Bogart, into an elegiac western starring Joel McCrea, taking the opportunity to trim away the sentimentality of "High Sierra" and replace it with hard stoicism.
The Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has accused people opposed to the cull of being seized by a "Wind in the Willows sentimentality".
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Among other things, he should have taken Chekhov's oft-quoted advice if you show the audience a gun, somebody had better fire it sooner or later just as he should have had the courage to eschew the crowd-pleasing touch of sentimentality that ends the play.
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And that ahistorical misunderstanding is behind much of the creepy centennial sentimentality.
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It is a no-nonsense workspace where the sole nod to sentimentality is Rajiv's trademark cotton scarf that Sonia has draped around his old chair at the head of a conference table.
The music arrived wrapped in wisps of sentimentality, and not merely because of the nostalgia in Mr. Cale's compositions.
To this day, there is love but not sentimentality for the horse.
War was not caused by the exaggerated fatalism and sentimentality of European cultural pessimism, but it was conditioned by it.
The song reflects the sort of challenging sentimentality that would define moments in later decades, when great acoustic jazz piano infiltrated a rock audience.
" Explains Bullmore: "Martin is untainted by the industry's sentimentality.
May-Treanor and Walsh Jennings were in the final against another U.S. pair, April Ross and Jennifer Kessy, but there was no home country sentimentality: the finish was swift and merciless.
Besides, for many people, stripping philanthropy of sentimentality defeats the purpose: It is tremendously gratifying to most people to visit a new school facility that their money helped build or to tour a woman's shelter that wouldn't be able to keep its doors open without the donor's financial support.
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Ariana Murray's delicate clockwork waltz "The Thread" provides touching sentimentality, as does "Everytime I'm With You, " a song Lytle originally wrote with the late Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse for the Dark Night of the Soul project.
Without question though, all sentimentality aside, the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well, period.
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And Leigh captures, without sentimentality or condescension, the grave and stoical spirit of the English working class.
His eccentricities on the public stage, Cliburn could veer toward affected grandiosity or oversaturated sentimentality now seemed to capture more attention than the playing.
Not to be daunted, and plainly unfazed by the threat of both sharks and sentimentality, Marlin sets off to rescue his only child.
And yet his departure comes really as no surprise, especially these days in the NFL. The league is no place for sentimentality and nostalgia.
"There is an emotional rawness here that is often painful to watch, but not a trace of sentimentality in her acting, " the Telegraph's critic continues.
Not only is it gratuitous the plot makes sense without it but the use of a framing device gives "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" a softening touch of sentimentality that undermines its theatrical potency.
Books about slaves, especially the female kind, risk straying into worthiness and sentimentality.
This ability to make tough decisions shorn of sentimentality is a far cry from how the older generation ran the group.
For some, Disney sentimentality and bad labour relations may have tarnished the company's image.
The worst of it carries a sickly sweet whiff of sentimentality.
Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Jordan's King Hussein and now Yasser Arafat appreciated the crucial role of public opinion, with all its fickleness and sentimentality, in Israeli peace-making.
She tries so hard to avoid sentimentality that it's easy to hear her meticulously following the script that she knows she's supposed to follow.
Notions of sentimentality have changed, but this exhibition goes far to help the uninitiated understand why and how the Pre-Raphaelites painted the way they did.
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