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Dale Henderson

The band signed with Restless Records in 1992 to release two more albums, Un-Sentimental (1993) and 2 Cents (1995), before breaking up once again in 1995.


1722 in literature

November 7 - Sir Richard Steele's "sentimental comedy" The Conscious Lovers (loosely based on Terence) opens at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London with an initial run of eighteen consecutive nights.

A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe

His work here is very similar to his score for My Name is Nobody, with an upbeat pop tune serving as the main theme, an adaptation of a classical song (in this case Für Elise) combined with the wailing from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly used for the stagecoach chase, and a sentimental, lyrical theme for the three protagonists.

Alphons Czibulka

Hearts and Flowers is the sentimental piece that has been frequently used to indicate mock tragedy in film and cartoon soundtracks.

Alun Woodward

The first, "A Sentimental Song", released in March 2007, was part of the Scottish indie/folk compilation Ballads of the Book with lyrics written by the author Alasdair Gray.

Anna Proclemer

From 1952 to 1955 Proclemer was a member of the stage company "Compagnia Teatro d’Arte Italiano", directed by Vittorio Gassman and Luigi Squarzina, then she was directed by Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro of Milan and, starting from 1956, she worked extensively with Giorgio Albertazzi, with whom she also had a sentimental relationship.

Buckley's Serenaders

They do the most preposterous things, in the way of Violin Solos, Deeply Sentimental Songs, and Lucrezia Borgia music, sung by a majestic female in black velvet and jewels with a blackened face! All that part of it, is intolerably bad.

Cash and Curry

At an Indian restaurant which Rham claims to be one of his eighteen owned restaurants, Rham explains to Del and Rodney (who comes looking for Del) that he and Malik are from rival families, each of whom makes claim to an ancient statue, of the Hindu God of Wealth Kubera (who Del originally believed to be "one of India's premier wicketkeepers"), of great sentimental and financial value.

Crown of sonnets

Jaroslav Seifert wrote his sentimental Věnec sonetů (A Wreath of Sonnets) in this form about Prague, with an authorized translation by Jan Křesadlo, who also composed his own emigre riposte in the same format, as well as writing several other sonnet cycles.

Early in the Morning: A Collection of New Poems

"Charles Causley embraced narrative poems in traditional forms, drawing particularly on folk songs and ballads....Whether writing nursery rhymes or ballads, sea chanteys or religious sonnets, he was never quaint or sentimental. His intensely honest verse was deeply rooted in the history and geography of his corner of England, and never condescended to the reader" (Zipes et al.: 1253).

Elizabeth Greenfield

Best known for her performances of the music of George Frideric Handel, Vincenzo Bellini, and Gaetano Donizetti, she also performed sentimental American songs such as Henry Bishop's 1852 setting of John Howard Payne's "Home! Sweet Home!" and Stephen Foster's "Old Folks at Home".

Finally in Love

Robert Copsey of Digital Spy gave the song three out of five stars, he described it as "a slick R&B ballad with lyrics as sentimental as the ending of a Richard Curtis film".

Franklyn MacCormack

In contrast to the primary sports-and-talk formats of WBBM and WGN, MacCormack read romantic and sentimental poetry and played classical, big band and Broadway music.

Genre art

Subsequently the Impressionists, as well as such 20th-century artists as Pierre Bonnard, Edward Hopper, and David Park painted scenes of daily life, but in the context of modern art the term "genre painting" has come to be associated mainly with painting of an especially anecdotal or sentimental nature, painted in a traditionally realistic technique.

Heimatfilm

The trilogy of films called Heimat by the German director Edgar Reitz (1984, 1992, and 2004) are partly an ironic reference to this type of sentimental film.

Helena Maria Ehrenstråhle

It consisted of both prose and poetry with "sentimental-moral contents" in the then popular Gessner-style.

High Civilization

Highlights from the album included the first single, "Secret Love", an up-tempo ballad, which was a top five hit in the UK, "When He's Gone", a heavier pop song, issued as the album's second single, it features the Alan Kendall's guitar solo ending on that song, and the sentimental ballad "The Only Love", released as the third and final single from the album.

James C. Thomson, Jr.

In 1981, he wrote Sentimental Imperialists: The American Experience in East Asia, along with co-authors Peter W. Stanley and John Curtis Perry.

Kumi Miyasato

In the United States, the sole Kumi Miyasato release is Senaka Goshi ni Sentimental as a track on The Best of Anime compilation CD from Rhino Entertainment.

Lahore – A Sentimental Journey

Lahore - A sentimental Journey is Pran Nevile's first book in which he recollects his pre-partition days in Lahore.

Laura Theresa Alma-Tadema

She specialised in highly sentimental domestic and genre scenes of women and children, often in Dutch 17th-century settings and style, like Love's Beginning, Hush-a-bye, The Carol, At the Doorway (c.1898, shown right) and Sunshine.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

He guest-starred on an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air playing the role of Hilary's boyfriend, and has directed several music videos including British R&B group Five Star's "I Love You For Sentimental Reasons" (1994) as well as many sitcom episodes including The Cosby Show, All that, Kenan & Kel, and Malcolm & Eddie.

Martha Cheavens

The less well-known Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) is "a warm, sentimental little tale about an impoverished, parentless brood who have their hearts set on entertaining a service man." (New York Times review, 25 January 1945)

Maurice Scève

Scève was also responsible for a translation of a sentimental novel (Grimalte y Gradissa) by Juan de Flores as La Déplourable fin de Flamète (1535), which was inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio.

Nagi Noda

Among her works are the short film Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an "Ex-fat Girl", the half-panda-half-something-else Hanpanda life-sized figures, and the video for Japanese singer Yuki's song "Sentimental Journey".

Nicolas des Escuteaux

Like his contemporaries Antoine de Nervèze or François du Souhait, Des Escuteaux is one of the authors most often associated with the so-called "sentimental novel" (or "amours") published during the reign of Henry IV of France.

Olivia Byington

In her career, Olívia has released several albums: Anjo vadio (1980), Identidad (1981), Para Viver um Grande Amor (1983), Música (1984), Encontro (1984) (Chiquinha Gonzaga Award), Melodia Sentimental (1986), Olivia Byington and João Carlos Assis Brasil (1990) and A Dama do Encantado (1997), the former in tribute to Aracy de Almeida.

Otto Hardwick

In his biography of Ellington, author James Lincoln Collier says that “In a Sentimental Mood,” “Sophisticated Lady,” and “Prelude to a Kiss” are adaptations of Hardwick melodies.

Outhouse

Folk singer Billy Edd Wheeler wrote and performed a song titled "The Little Brown Shack Out Back", a sentimental look at the outhouse.

Parlour music

Note the sentimental lyrics by Frank Lebby Stanton, the plaintive but well matched tune by Carrie Jacobs-Bond, and the conscious artistry (including the operatic trilled "r"s) by singer Elizabeth Spencer.

Pierre Édouard Frère

The marked sentimental tendency of his art makes us wonder at John Ruskin's enthusiastic eulogy which finds in Frère's work the depth of William Wordsworth, the grace of Sir Joshua Reynolds, and the holiness of Fra Angelico.

Rolando Tinio

He published four seminal books of poems between 1972 and 1993, in which, along with his longtime friend, Bienvenido Lumbera, helped modernize the traditionally sentimental Filipino style.

Scottish Renaissance

Where these earlier movements had been steeped in a sentimental and nostalgic Celticism, however, the modernist-influenced Renaissance would seek a rebirth of Scottish national culture that would both look back to the medieval "makar" poets William Dunbar and Robert Henrysoun as well as look towards such contemporary influences as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and D. H. Lawrence.

Sentimental Ol' You

"Sentimental Ol' You" is a song written by Bob DiPiero and Pat McManus, and recorded by American country music artist Charly McClain.

Sentimentality

However in sociology it is possible to see the "sentimental tradition" as extending into the present-day - to see, for example, 'Parsons as one of the great social philosophers in the sentimental tradition of Adam Smith, Burke, McLuhan, and Goffman...concerned with the relation between the rational and sentimental bases of social order raised by the market reorientation of motivation'.

Sergio Renán

Then, in 1980, he directed and took the lead role in Sentimental, and received his first Konex Award (the highest in the Argentine cultural realm), the following year.

Sex and nudity in video games

However, in 1997, they released To Heart, a sweetly sentimental story of high school love that became one of the most famous and trendsetting eroge ever.

She Stoops to Conquer

When the play was first produced, it was discussed as an example of the revival of laughing comedy over the sentimental comedy seen as dominant on the English stage since the success of The Conscious Lovers, written by Sir Richard Steele in 1722.

Simon Bates

Over Nino Rota's theme to Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film Romeo and Juliet, Bates read a sentimental story sent by a listener, ending with a record chosen by the correspondent.

South End–Groesbeckville Historic District

But they retained a sentimental attachment to the South End, and Daniel P. O'Connell, boss of the city's Democratic political machine for most of the 20th century, worked out of his father's tavern at Fourth and South Pearl even though he and his family, too, had moved elsewhere in the city.

Subway Challenge

On May 30, 1940, two days before the IRT, BMT, and IND were unified in 1940, Herman Rinke, an electric-railroad buff, became the first person to tour the entire system on a single 5-cent fare, doing it purely as a "sentimental gesture".

The Adventurer's

Theme song "The Adventurer's" (衝擊), and the sub theme song "The Sentimental Debts" (情債) composition and arrangement by Joseph Koo, lyricist by Wong Jim, sung by Jenny Tseng.

The Argues: The Movie

The film is based on the story of Argue's mother and her romance with America and Europe, where she ice skated in many famed shows with her now deceased husband, so David takes her on a sentimental journey revisiting the places she skated around the world while at the same time trying to land himself a Hollywood agent.

The Modern Dance

Tim Wright – bass guitar on "The Modern Dance" and "Sentimental Journey", production

The Sentimental Bloke

The Sentimental Bloke uses intertitles taken from the original poem written in Australian slang and was a hit when it opened in Melbourne Town Hall on 4 October 1919, breaking all existing box office records.

The Sentimental Engine Slayer

The Sentimental Engine Slayer is a 2010 film directed by Omar Rodríguez-López.

Vicenç Cuyàs

The opera is based on a novel by the Viscount of Arlincourt which had already been a success among the sentimental literature of the period.

William Lee Hankey

Later in Paris he became influenced by the work of Jules Bastien-Lepage, who also favoured rustic scenes depicted in a realistic but sentimental style.

Zayda Y Los Culpables

All of the albums are under the Balboa label except Coleccion de Oro: La Sentimental, which is under the Musart label.


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