For some artists, the sentimentality of traditional ink painting is a spark for their sardonic wit.

对于这些艺术家来说，传统水墨画那种多愁善感的特质正是他们风趣幽默的灵感来源。

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They have an element of the "sentimentality" that you also find in the "news in Brief" pages of the newspapers.

他们有一种多愁善感的因素在里面，在报纸的“简短新闻”里也可以找到。

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This novel--as you will soon see, Onnie Jay Holy once you get to the parts where Onnie Jay Holy begins to preach-- this novel is very much a critique of sentimentality.

这本书--你很快会看到，当你一读到,开始传道的部分-,这本书就几乎成一部对多愁善感的评论。

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Usually it's not. That was the point that discussed in my chapter comparing him to Houston's film The Dead. Houston's film is filled with sentimentality and nostalgia. Welles generally avoids that, the way James Joyce does.

通常并非如此，那正是我在比较,他的作品与休斯顿的电影《死魂灵》,的章节中所谈到的，休斯顿的电影,充满了多愁善感和怀旧情绪，而威尔斯通常,尽量避免那样做，那是詹姆斯·乔伊斯的方式。

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With a gentle touch and a lilting piano score, Kawase effortlessly avoids the sentimentality that often taints Japanese movies.

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But the sentimentality in the script oozes insincerity, like it's something that's been grudgingly inserted to please a specific demographic.

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One such film is "Colorado Territory" (1949), in which Raoul Walsh transformed his own "High Sierra" (1941), a classic portrait of an aging gangster played by Humphrey Bogart, into an elegiac western starring Joel McCrea, taking the opportunity to trim away the sentimentality of "High Sierra" and replace it with hard stoicism.

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