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In Our Time: Culture

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Sensational Is a Lower Form of Emotion

I saw he man imean sentimental is as aa lower form in some way. Why is it? I am interested. Can you tell me why? I think there are lots of complex reasons for that. O always mentioned the linged by, by, bybymy i'm not going to say just by academic course, i'm not ut. But i think you're right in the sense that academically, that sentimentality can have a bad press. partly because it's a kind of extreme form of emotion which isn't ally regulated. Dickens himself wrote very interestingly about these issues in in oliver twist and basy.

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