"Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality"
That is true, I think - at least partly. What do the rest of you think?
Interesting signature line, Gus.
It's the other way round in my case
Hmmm - but what is under the initial sentimentality, before the brutality covers it?
Now empathy, or even sympathy - but sentimentality?
Or do you mean you wear lingerie, and sometimes a bowtie?
Honesty is the best policy, and that sometimes leaves no room for sentimentality.
Hmm - sentimental is given more positive meaning here than I expected:
sen?ti?men?tal
Pronunciation: (sen"tu-men'tl), [key]
?adj.
1. expressive of or appealing to sentiment, esp. the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
2. pertaining to or dependent on sentiment: We kept the old photograph for purely sentimental reasons.
3. weakly emotional; mawkishly susceptible or tender: the sentimental Victorians.
4. characterized by or showing sentiment or refined feeling.
But look at the similar words it was paired with!
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sentimentality (Dictionary)
sen?ti?men?tal?i?ty Pronunciation: (sen"t u -men-tal'i-t E ), [key] ? n., ? [more...]
mawkish (Dictionary)
mawk?ish Pronunciation: (mô'kish), [key] ? adj. 1. characterized by sickly [more...]
glop (Dictionary)
glop Pronunciation: (glop), [key] ? n. Informal. 1. unappetizing food, esp. of [more...]
bathos (Dictionary)
ba?thos Pronunciation: (b A 'thos, -thôs, -th O s), [key] ? n. 1. a ludicrous [more...]
untinged (Dictionary)
un?tinged Pronunciation: (un-tinjd'), [key] ? adj. 1. not colored, as by paint [more...]
sentimentalist (Dictionary)
sen?ti?men?tal?ist Pronunciation: (sen"t u -men'tl-ist), [key] ? n. one given [more...]
Schwärmerei* (Dictionary)
Schwär?me?rei Pronunciation: (shver"m u -r I '), [key] ? n. (sometimes l.c.) [more...]
goo (Dictionary)
goo Pronunciation: (g OO ), [key] ? n. Informal. 1. a thick or sticky [more...]
sentimentalism (Dictionary)
sen?ti?men?tal?ism Pronunciation: (sen"t u -men'tl-iz" u m), [key] ? n. 1. [more...]
hearts and flowers (Dictionary)
hearts' and flow'ers (used with a sing. or pl. v.) maudlin sentimentality:
Sent-I-Mentality: A common phrase used by West Indians when trying to understand stupid white people.
Hmmm. I figured it was a West Indian correspondence course, cav.
Well, I can't help you out, deb. I'm not sure how cav arrived at his conclusion either.
Well, incomprehension loves company, so you made me feel better!
English-speakers from the West Indies frequently replace "me" with "I," or so reggae would have us believe. (Really it's just a plot to make themselves sound laid back and interesting while they plot our demise under the cover of immense clouds of smoke. For the easily offended, please note that I type with my tongue in my cheek, precariously gripped by my sharp, mean teeth.)
hmmm - sounds like you would give toes great little nips......swooooooooooooooooon!
deb goes for them toe suckers!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry, Lovey, you want the "hamster digression" thread, see, over there in the corner?
butbutbutbut they was talkin' 'bout toes!
harrumph!
'K, point taken . . . please, no harumphity . . .
