From Sachs to Kristof to Invisible Children to TED, the fastest growth industry in the US is the White Savior Industrial Complex. The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening. The banality of evil transmutes into the banality of sentimentality. The world is nothing but a problem to be solved by enthusiasm. This world exists simply to satisfy the needs - including, importantly, the sentimental needs - of white people and Oprah.
Teju ColeTag: enthusiasm sentimentality ted banality-of-evil
Deviation from the word of God is sentimentality and says 'you're right' to this one, and 'you're right' to that one, and the guy in the middle is an ass-hole.
Milton RokeachTag: god sentimentality assholes deviance
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it.
Timothy J. KellerTag: truth love marriage sentimentality tim-keller
...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.
Will Christopher BaerTag: pain men emotions sentimentality
Anthropomorphism originally meant the attribution of human characteristics to God. It is curious that the word is now used almost exclusively to ascribe human characteristics--such as fidelity or altruism or pride, or emotions such as love, embarrassment, or sadness--to the nonhuman animal. One is guilty of anthropomorphism, though it is no longer a sacrilegious word. It is a derogatory, dismissive one that connotes a sort of rampant sentimentality. It’s just another word in the arsenal of the many words used to attack the animal rights movement.
Joy WilliamsTag: animals animal-rights sentimentality anthromorphism
Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.)
Christopher HitchensTag: children censorship insincerity politicians sentimentality baby-kissing moral-blackmail
Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world.
Ryan FitzpatrickTag: sentimentality adage inheritance-cycle ouch algorithm coalescence copulation flarf
I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the
speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.
Tag: irony sentimentality naive
It’s said that sport is the civilised society’s substitute for war, and also that the games we play as children are designed to prepare us for the realities of adult life. Certainly it’s true that my brother thrived in the capitalist kindergarten of the Monopoly board, developing a set of ruthless strategies whose success is reflected in his bank balance even to this day. I, on the other hand, can still be undone by the kind of ridiculous sentimentality that would see me sacrifice anything, anything, in order to have the three matching red-headed cards of Fleet Street, Trafalgar Square and The Strand sitting tidily together on my side of the board.
Danielle WoodTag: humor life children funny sports sentimentality monopoly
...man's sentimental attachment to objects is one of life's greatest consolations.
Orhan PamukTag: attachment consolation sentimentality objects
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