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Songs have traditionally been sung by men — relating the hard life of the farmer or fisherman and including an element of sentimentality rarely expressed in other areas of a Greek male’s life.
It attacks sentimentality, ideology, and piggish male heroism, preaching ambiguity in their place.
the same sentimentality and earnestness he throws over every subject" (James Collins, Time ). Techniques recycled from Burns' documentaries on baseball and the Civil War--including background fiddle music and actors reading wistful letters--are singled out as especially grating.
from generation to generation" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). A few, like Pearl K. Bell in the Wall Street Journal , find "a surfeit of sweetly obedient docility" in the novel and say parts are "perilously at the edge of sentimentality."
In a famous essay, George Orwell wrote that what makes Dickens so attractive, despite his failures in characterization and a tendency toward sentimentality, is his decency.