In a message dated 1/20/09 2:12:42 PM, [email protected] writes:
> Maybe that's sentiment, a kind of empathy, and not sentimentality. > You can also say"his sentiments do him honor" and it is not an insult. Does sentimentality track back to Rousseau and his idea of man as naturally good? It seems to have moralistic overtones as well as emotional ones and it always seems to assume the higher ground. After all who would be against kitten pictures or pretty cottages in spite of neither being ideally behaved or constructed.(WAs the Republican flaw their sentimentality?) KAte Sulivan ************** Inauguration '09: Get complete coverage from the nation's capital.(http://www.aol.com?ncid=emlcntaolcom00000027)
