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Sentiment

noun

Tender, romantic, or nostalgic feeling or emotion.

A personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty. Synonyms: opinion, persuasion, thought, view. "I am not of your persuasion" , "What are your thoughts on Haiti?"

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"Sentiment" Quotes from Famous Books

... before it became known to her parents, to commence under its guidance the task of building up a somewhat weak and ineffective organ into a voice capable of expressing with ease the whole gamut of feeling from the fiercest passion to the tenderest sentiment, and which can fill with a whisper ...

— Mary Anderson • J. M. Farrar

... little or no feeling for anybody but himself; indeed, he laughed at all sentiment and said he did not believe in virtue or disinterestedness. When, among other topics of conversation, the loss the French Army sustained at Waterloo was brought on the tapis, he said, "Eh bien! qu 'importe? dans une seule nuit a Paris on en fabriquera ...

— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye

... reveal to us how truly wonderful is the mere act of living, and to throw light upon the existence of the soul, self-contained in the midst of ever-restless immensities; to hush the discourse of reason and sentiment, so that above the tumult may be heard the solemn uninterrupted whisperings of ...

— On The Art of Reading • Arthur Quiller-Couch

... as if addressing the entire company, who stood waiting to applaud his every sentiment, he said: "Germany expects and is able to pay large prices for American goods now." And then, as if to cut short any possible protest that Edestone might presume to make, he turned his back upon him and said very abruptly to the ...

— L. P. M. - The End of the Great War • J. Stewart Barney

... of Allegheny, Penn., opened the opposition, opposing the report generally, and supporting Elder Breckinridge's minority report. It was a useful speech, and, though the sentiment of the Assembly was plainly opposed, it stemmed the tide awhile and prepared the way for what was to follow. Ex-Moderator Smith, of Baltimore, Chairman of the Northern Assembly's Committee, then defended his report and showed how much the Southern Assembly had yielded ...

— The American Missionary, Vol. 43, No. 7, July, 1889 • Various

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