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The sentimentalist enjoys their own manipulation, without irony, cynicism, or critique.

He's also a sentimentalist, as his nod to the 1953 western "Shane" suggests.

Mencken would probably have dismissed Brooks as a sentimentalist — "an evangelist," in Mencken's scornful term.

"I'm not a sentimentalist, and I am a Londoner, so I understand the way the city works," he said.

So it's probably not a surprise he's such a sentimentalist—and that he's got a weakness for the big, show-stopping moment.

As the movie depicts him, Blaze, a witty sentimentalist with a bottomless baritone, was an enthusiast when it came to love, liquor and weed.

Before Drake's Instagram-worthy lyrics were considered a punchline, before he was seen as hip-hop's resident sentimentalist, his relatability and sentimentality were innovations.

Chemical weapons attacks genuinely moved Trump President Donald Trump doesn't strike us as a sentimentalist, particularly when it comes to hapless citizens in foreign lands.

This nonconformist, gruff conversationalist who grills his grandnephews on why they don't read T.S. Eliot is also a sentimentalist who places great weight on tradition.

But Ms. Fonda, as the glamorous and imperious Grace, and Ms. Tomlin, as the aging-hippie sentimentalist Frankie, are the sole and sufficient reason to watch.

A sentimentalist is someone who doesn't just relish a good cry but is moved by that which is designed by entertainment conglomerates to evoke such a response.

It may be dismissed as the ravings of a deranged colonial sentimentalist, but I am confident you will at least be polite enough to hear me out.

I always start with people that are dimensional, that have flaws, that more times than not have a core of goodness, just because I'm a sentimentalist that way.

Reed was no sentimentalist when it came to his own back pages, telling collaborators that he destroyed drafts of his work to keep the focus on his final product.

I'll admit that, as a college basketball sentimentalist who grew up on Tobacco Road enthralled with Dean Smith's North Carolina teams, this sort of explanation exerts a pull over me.

Like many junkies, Emma is a brutalizing sentimentalist chasing the dragon—a line of coke, a handful of tranquillizers, booze—while also chasing some idea of love, which involves regret as well.

Some sentimentalist goof-o who believed in the glory and power of every Boston Celtic might buy this excuse, but hardened basketball cynics roll their eyes at this puff-pastry-ass excuse.

A couple of months ago, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, he introduced a smaller band he calls Rank Sentimentalist, whose ranks include the electric bassist Stomu Takeishi and the cellist Marika Hughes.

He is an avowed Constitution-denier, slavery sentimentalist, segregation-upholder, gay-basher, Jew-damner, woman-shunner and alleged one-time fancier of teenage girls, two of whom have accused him of sexual abuse -- accusations that he denies.

But the way Green Book jumps from "this is the story of two guys who did just that" to "this is the story of how we can all do just that" is what marks it as sentimentalist claptrap.

But the canny and daring writer Lydia Millet is no sentimentalist, and in "Fight No More," her new collection of linked stories, she explores the fragility and treachery of a place that can offer both solace and deception.

He is certainly no sentimentalist about the world, and, while he does not share Trump's affinity for dictators like Putin and Kim Jong Un, he has remained notably silent on human-rights abuses in places such as North Korea.

Solomon (who makes a memorable appearance in Richard Linklater's Waking Life expounding upon the virtues of existentialism) observes that sentimentality is seen as a bad thing, as to be labeled a sentimentalist is to be derided as a hypocrite and fraud.

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But, Carley, you are not a sentimentalist, or a melancholiac.

Sentimentalist Magazine was an American magazine of indie rock music and culture, which was published quarterly.

But it would be unfair to characterise Daldry as a proselytiser, or even as a sentimentalist.

The angry son, the good friend, the bad husband, the quarreler, the sentimentalist, the secret lover, the despairing father.

Sentimentalist Magazine was started as an indie music and culture print magazine. It was voted as PLUG Awards nominee in the Media (obsessive) category "Zine of the Year" in 2007, and again in 2008. As of January 2008, Sentimentalist Magazine was relaunched as an online-only magazine. The magazine's mission is to give indie bands from around the world the exposure they might not have otherwise encountered.

Launched in New York City, New York, in 2000 or earlier as The Sentimentalist, it changed its title to The Sentimentalist Magazine with Issue 14, and then dropped the definite article from Issue 16. As of January 2008, the magazine had been relaunched as an online-only publication. It continued for several years to publish "magazine covers" with each monthly online issue. The site has not been updated since 2015.

Kazimierz Wojniakowski, portrait by Jan Feliks Piwarski Kazimierz Wojniakowski (1771/72, Kraków – 1812, Warsaw) was a Polish painter, illustrator and Freemason, known primarily for his portraits in the sentimentalist style.

Her works consisted mainly of pietist-sentimentalist poems, journals and memoirs. Elisa von der Recke looked after thirteen foster daughters. She died in Dresden and is buried at the in Dresden.

Teofila Bogumiła Glińska (died 1799) was a Polish poet. She published poems in the style of the Enlightenment; they are regarded as having been among the first poems in Poland written in the Romantic sentimentalist style.

Townsend (1933), 244. He also favorably contrasts what he considers Japan's sensible policies toward China with the naively "sentimentalist" ones adopted by the United States.Townsend (1933), 173–174, 287, 297–298, 307–315. Ways That Are Dark became a bestseller and attracted vociferous reactions from both critics and supporters.

Clash placed W at number 17 on its list of the top 40 albums of 2011. NME placed the album at number 25 on its list of the 50 best albums of 2011. Sentimentalist Magazine placed it at number two on its list of the top ten albums of 2011.

Rolling Stone's Stephen Holden called Whirlwind "a well-crafted album of imitation rock by a pop sentimentalist unconvincingly crying tough." Concluding "the record merely reaffirms Andrew Gold's skill as a meticulous pop interior designer recycling Sixties guitar hooks into blandly tasteful studio settings."Holden, Stephen. "Whirlwind", Rolling Stone, June 26, 1980, p. 80.

"The National Top 50 For the Week Ending: Tuesday, October 26, 2010". !Earshot. They then embarked on a fall tour across Canada and in the US as support for Born Ruffians."Winter Gloves at Bowery Ballroom, 10.02.10". Sentimentalist Magazine, By Teresa Sampson on October 4, 2010 Their song 'We Need New Transportation' was featured in an MTS commercial.

II (London: 1824) p. 422. This is strikingly different from the views of European critics of the day, who praised Sterne and Tristram Shandy as innovative and superior. Voltaire called it "clearly superior to Rabelais", and later Goethe praised Sterne as "the most beautiful spirit that ever lived". Swedish translator Johan Rundahl described Sterne as an arch-sentimentalist.

Henri III: Acte III scène (estampe) / G. Saint Evre 1829 (sig.). BnF. The failure of a series of works on Don Quixote forced him to do a critical reevaluation of his work. He decided to abandon literature in favor of history. Although he focused on events from Medieval France, he continued to paint in the prevailing Romantic and Sentimentalist style.

The Boston Herald Traveler said of him, "Osinski is not a sentimentalist. Rather, he's a pro's pro. Though he has only five years in the major leagues, he has the qualities --maturity, judgment and a dogged competitiveness -- that often are never found in men with twice his longevity." In the 1967 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Osinski appeared in two games.

It has been described as prejudiced, imperialistic, orientalist, sentimentalist, colonialist, and under-theorized. Yanagi's interpretation of Korean history and art has been disputed. The "beauty of sorrow" was criticized by Koreans as early as 1922. In 1974, the poet Choe Harim published an influential article that established the "aesthetics of colonialism" and accused Yanagi's theory of imperialism, colonialism, sentimentalism, and a "superficial interpretation of Korean history".

339 Later, their views would be revived and developed by Richard Price and pitted against the moral sense theory of Francis Hutcheson,Sidgwick (1931), pp. 224–226 himself sometimes considered a sentimentalist intuitionist. Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy would be received in Britain as a German analog to Price,Sidgwick (1931), p. 271 though according to R. M. Hare it is questionable whether Kant is an intuitionist.

The review includes: "Miss Reid is not a sentimentalist. She records changes without defending or decrying them, and after their moments of grief or joy her characters must insensibly resume the ordinary round".The Times, 4 October 1939. The reviewer in the Times Literary Supplement wrote: "It is a shrewd piece of work, gracefully carried out, and one takes great pleasure in the reasonable mind behind it".

Mircea Martin reads in it the poet's emancipation from both Symbolism and traditionalism, despite it being opened with a dedication to Minulescu, and against Eugen Lovinescu's belief that such pastorals were exclusively traditionalist.Martin, p. XIV–XV According to Martin, Priveliști parts from its Romantic predecessors by abandoning the "descriptive" and "sentimentalist" in pastoral conventions: "Everything seems designed on purpose to confound and defy the traditional mindset."Martin, p.

McFadden stated that Raf is "a bit of a sentimentalist and got attached to her." Essie's professionalism in her nursing role also attracts Rafs to her. McFadden later told Wilson from What's on TV that Essie and Raf are compatible because they are "both traditional" and want a serious relationship. He also thought it would be inevitable that they would clash at times, which he was looking forward to portraying.

Portrait of I. I. Dmitriyev by Vasily Tropinin. 1835. Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev (; - ) was a Russian statesman and poet associated with the sentimentalist movement in Russian literature. Dmitriev was born at his father's estate in the government of Simbirsk. In consequence of the revolt of Yemelyan Pugachev, the family had to flee to Saint Petersburg, and there Ivan was entered at the school of the Semenov Guards, and afterwards obtained a post in the military service.

Kambriel's works have also been featured internationally in print. In magazines, including America's Gothic Beauty, Dark Realms, Newgrave, Malevola, Tear, The Mercyground, Sentimentalist Magazine, Tattoo Savage, and Sheltered Life, Italy's Ascension Magazine, England's Crimson, Germany's Gothic Magazine and Canada's Comatose Rose and Amongst the Ruins. She has also been featured in the books Hex Files: The Goth Bible (1997) and 21st Century Goth (2002) both by British author and music journalist Mick Mercer.

He was a recurring character in seasons 4-6 and a series regular in season seven. On November 4, 2007 Watkins guest-starred on the Cold Case season 5 episode "World's End". In July 2009, a Funny or Die video called The Sentimentalist starring Watkins was ranked number five on Entertainment Weekly "The Must List", which notes the magazine's ten weekly choices among film, television, DVDs, books, music, and online entertainment for "The Top 10 Things We Love This Week".

The postwar Giants were a second-division team of slow-footed sluggers with poor fielding and mediocre pitching. On July 16, 1948, Stoneham and Feeney made a dramatic change. They replaced manager Mel Ott, a popular, Hall of Fame hitter and lifelong Giant, with the controversial and abrasive Leo Durocher, who had been managing their bitter crosstown rivals, the Brooklyn Dodgers. Asked by Stoneham to evaluate his new team, Durocher, no sentimentalist, reportedly replied: "Back up the truck", meaning wholesale changes were needed.

The column was particularly successful during the Second World War, and is associated with London's spirit during the Blitz by many. According to Time: "Once a week Nat Gubbins speaks for the British man-in-the- street better than the British man-in-the-street can speak for himself...Dry- eyed sentimentalist, sly humorist, casual reformer, recorder of mutton-headed remarks, he has become the most widely read of British columnists. He has no U.S. parallel." Nat Gubbins, Time, Monday, 8 March 1943.

Warner's style was aimed at giving an accurate portrayal of the social limitations imposed upon nineteenth-century women, and aimed at promoting the benefits of Christian morality. The Wide, Wide World was republished in 1987 by the Feminist Press, showing the claims it holds to furthering gender equality. And one can see that Warner's style was aimed at promoting Christian morals because one of the main themes of this novel is about finding strength in religious devotion. The Wide, Wide World is a paradigm of sentimentalist literature.

Born in Hanover, Pennsylvania, Long had been admitted to the bar in Philadelphia on October 29, 1881, and become a practicing lawyer. On January 17, 1882, he married Mary Jane Sprenkle. He died at age 66 on October 31, 1927 having spent the last two months of his life at a sanatorium in Clifton Springs, New York. The obituary in The New York Times of November 1, 1927 quoted his own interpretation of himself as "a sentimentalist, and a feminist and proud of it".

József Kármán József Kármán (14 March 1769 in Losonc - 3 June 1795 in Losonc), sentimentalist Hungarian author, was born at Losonc (today Lučenec in Slovakia) in 1769, the son of a Calvinist pastor. He was educated at Losonc and Pest, whence he migrated to Vienna. There he made the acquaintance of the beautiful and eccentric Countess Markovics, who was for a time his mistress, but she was not, as has often been supposed, the heroine of his famous novel Fanni hagyományai ("Fanny's testament"). Subsequently he settled in Pest as a lawyer.

The Ring magazine was saved from ruin in 1990 by Boxing Hall of Fame publisher Stanley Weston who founded Boxing Illustrated, KO & World Boxing and GC London Publishing Corp. Weston was a sentimentalist and 52 years after joining The Ring magazine as a stock boy, Weston purchased the magazine that gave him his first job. He not only resurrected the magazine from its imminent collapse, he re-established the publication as the definitive source for boxing news. An outstanding boxing artist, Weston painted 57 covers for The Ring with his first cover, a painting of Billy Conn, for the December 1939 issue.

Of all Gogol's creations, Chichikov stands out as the incarnation of poshlost. His psychological leitmotiv is complacency, and his geometrical expression roundness. The other characters—the squires Chichikov visits on his shady business—are typical "humors" (for Gogol's method of comic character drawing, with its exaggerations and geometrical simplification, is strongly reminiscent of Ben Jonson's). Sobakevich, the strong, silent, economical man, square and bearlike; Manilov, the silly sentimentalist with pursed lips; M-me Korobochka, the stupid widow; Nozdryov, the cheat and bully, with the manners of a hearty good fellow — are all types of eternal solidity.

We never actually perceive that one event causes another, but only experience the "constant conjunction" of events. This problem of induction means that to draw any causal inferences from past experience it is necessary to presuppose that the future will resemble the past, a presupposition which cannot itself be grounded in prior experience. An opponent of philosophical rationalists, Hume held that passions rather than reason govern human behaviour, famously proclaiming that "Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions". Hume was also a sentimentalist who held that ethics are based on emotion or sentiment rather than abstract moral principle.

After an enlarged edition of the book was published as Lives of Game Animals, Seton was ironically awarded the Burroughs Medal in 1927, a prize named after the venerable naturalist who had once so criticized Seton's work.Maclulich, p. 121 Over time, the term "nature faker" began to take on a new meaning; rather than describing someone who purposefully told false stories about animals, it became synonymous with those who overly sentimentalized the natural world. In 1910, journalist and writer Richard Harding Davis published a short story titled "The Nature Faker" in Collier's Weekly, which used the negative colloquialism to refer to the lead character, Herrick, a hapless nature sentimentalist.

And the two run parallel morally as well: promise-breaking and anti-government action are both disapproved of primarily from a sense of common interest. Thus there is no sense founding the one in the other. Hume also appeals to the opinions of everyday people (which in questions of morality and other sentimentalist domains "carry with them a peculiar authority, and are, in a great measure, infallible"), who see themselves as born to obedience independently of any promising, tacit or otherwise, even to authoritarian states—an understanding reflected in legal codes on rebellion. But Hume agrees with the Whigs about the right of resistance when governments become tyrannical.

It may fairly be described as a sentimental novel: Temple Thurston himself wrote that "To many, from the first page to the last, it had not the faintest conception of reality, and indeed has earned for me the classification of sentimentalist". This was in the Author's Note to the sequel, entitled The World of Wonderful Reality, published a decade later in 1919. His obituary in The Times (20 March 1933) stated that "there were those who might suggest that sentimentalism was too evident in Temple Thurston's work". As well as being a vehicle for Edwardian romanticism, the novel shares the Roman Catholic faith of its author with its main characters.

In 1787 her first book, Nachricht von des berüchtigten Cagliostro Aufenthalt in Mitau im Jahre 1779 und dessen magischen Operationen, a memoir-exposé of the months when she studied magic with "Count" Alessandro di Cagliostro, made a great impact right across Europe, with Catherine the Great even granting Elisa lands in Russia in recognition of the work (making Elisa financially independent). She got to know Goethe, Schiller, Wieland, Herder and other European literary figures, and intensified their relationships through prolific correspondence. From 1798 she lived almost exclusively in Dresden, and from 1804 cohabited there with her friend Christoph August Tiedge. Their meetings were religio-sentimentalist in tone, with the singing of chorales by Johann Gottlieb Naumann.

Bruce Lockhart said in his memoirs: "Ransome was a Don Quixote with a walrus moustache, a sentimentalist who could always be relied upon to champion the underdog, and a visionary whose imagination had been fired by the revolution. He was on excellent terms with the Bolsheviks and frequently brought us information of the greatest value." Nonetheless in March 1919, on one of his return visits to the United Kingdom, the authorities interviewed him and threatened him with exposure as an agent.Brogan (1984), p 235 In October 1919, Ransome met Reginald Leeper of the Foreign Office's Political Intelligence Department, who required Ransome privately to submit his articles and public speaking engagements for approval.

He warns Americans that the Chinese see kindness only as weakness and thus can never respond to any type of positive reinforcement. "For every Chinese, from highest to lowest," he argues, "all the acts of life are concentrated upon extracting, from those who mean nothing to him, what he can for the benefit of himself and his clan." By contrast, he believes that the Chinese do understand force and respect strength. Therefore, he advocates that the United States forgo naive "sentimentalist" thinking and adopt a policy of "stern insistence upon our rights without cruel abuse of our strength", including withholding further loans without strict conditions and holding on to foreign concessions and extraterritoriality.

Constant published only one novel during his lifetime, Adolphe (1816), the story of a young, indecisive man's disastrous love affair with an older mistress. A first-person novel in the sentimentalist tradition, Adolphe examines the thoughts of the young man as he falls in and out of love with Ellenore, a woman of uncertain virtue. Constant began the novel as an autobiographical tale of two loves, but decided that the reading public would object to serial passions. The love affair depicted in the finished version of the novel is thought to be based on Constant's affair with Anna Lindsay, who describes the affair in her correspondence (published in the Revue des Deux Mondes, December 1930 – January 1931).

The novel received mixed reviews when first published. Hannen Swaffer, writing in the Daily Graphic, considered it "a book of penetrating analysis, a volume that illumines the souls of thousands ... a book that will be read proudly wherever English people live ... a book which will live as long as our spoken tongue". In contrast, the Evening Standard found it "laughable – when it is not revolting by reason of the sentimentality with which the autobiography of Rupert Ray is sticky from cover to cover". Rose Macaulay, writing in the Daily News, thought it "apparently by a rather illiterate and commonplace sentimentalist", and considered that the book had "no beauty, and its silliness and bad taste are not the work of a writer".

It was first exhibited at Agnew's Gallery on Bond Street in London in May 1918, after the initial decision of the military censor Arthur Lee to deny permission was overruled. The Times commented that "Mr Orpen is certainly not a sentimentalist; he seems to paint with cold, serene skill, just as he might paint a bunch of flowers" and "only Germans die in this war". Orpen donated the painting to the Imperial War Museum in 1918.Sir William Orpen – The Official Artist of The First World War This painting, depicting the stark reality of war, has been compared to an 1865 photograph of dead soldiers of the Confederate States Army in a trench with cheveaux-de-frise, at Petersburg, Virginia, during the American Civil War.

Prince Peter Ivanovich Shalikov (?"Russian Biographical Dictionary" indicates the year of birth on 1767, with the note that "according to some sources in 1768". From the "Report on the Status and Actions of the Imperial Moscow University for the 1835/6 Academic and 1836 Civil Years" follows a later time of birth: about 1774, which is better consistent with the report of the agent of the 3rd Department von Fock in 1827: "editor of "Moscow Vedomosti" is the famous Shalikov, who has long been the subject of ridicule for all those involved in literature. At 50, he is trying to be young, writes love poems and takes epigrams for praise..." – February 28, 1852, Serpukhov District of Moscow Governorate) was a Russian sentimentalist writer, journalist and publisher.

In a 2004 essay, he analysed how sentimentality towards children was closely linked with violence and neglect, particularly in the poorest sections of British society: "The upbringing of children in much of Britain is a witches' brew of sentimentality, brutality, and neglect, in which overindulgence in the latest fashions, toys, or clothes, and a television in the bedroom are regarded as the highest—indeed only—manifestations of tender concern for a child's welfare". Before the book's publication, Dalrymple analysed two high-profile cases in the British media involving Raoul Moat and Jon Venables. Dalrymple described Moat as "a brutal sentimentalist. He used the extremity of his behaviour to persuade himself that he felt something—supposedly love—very deeply, and that this was the motive and justification of his behaviour".

At just over three hours, The Great Ziegfeld was also the longest talking film of the time. (D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance, both silent films, had each run over three hours.) TCM has acclaimed the "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" sequence as one of "the most famous musical numbers ever filmed". Thomas S. Hischak has said that the film has rarely been topped for pure showmanship and glamor, and Variety considered it an "outstanding picture", a "symbol of a tradition of show business". Variety praised the performances of the cast, remarking that as Ziegfeld, William Powell "endows the impersonation with all the qualities of a great entrepreneur and sentimentalist without sacrificing the shades and moods called for" and noting that Luise Rainer is "tops of the femmes with her vivacious Anna Held".

Bojówki were certainly not above robbing Russian authorities to obtain funds for their operations, and by 1908 Piłsudski and his organization were desperately short on cash. Piłsudski expressed his thoughts about this violent action in a last will or obituary that he wrote to a friend before the raid: : I am not going to dictate to you what you shall write about my life and work. I only ask of you not to make me a 'whiner and sentimentalist.' [...] I fight and I am ready to die simply because I cannot bear to live in this latrine which is what our life amounts to [...] Let others play at throwing bouquets to Socialism or Polonism [...] My latest idea, which I have not yet fully developed, is to create in all parties, and most of all our own, an organization of physical force, of brute force.

The final act was "glacial from first to last", and Bizet was left "only with the consolations of a few friends".Dean 1965, pp. 114–15 The critic Ernest Newman wrote later that the sentimentalist Opéra- Comique audience was "shocked by the drastic realism of the action" and by the low standing and defective morality of most of the characters.Newman, p. 248 According to the composer Benjamin Godard, Bizet retorted, in response to a compliment, "Don't you see that all these bourgeois have not understood a wretched word of the work I have written for them?"Dean 1965, p. 116 In a different vein, shortly after the work had concluded, Massenet sent Bizet a congratulatory note: "How happy you must be at this time—it's a great success!".Curtiss, pp. 395–96 The general tone of the next day's press reviews ranged from disappointment to outrage.

In describing the changes made to the original opera, Budden observes that the revised version has far greater strengths than those acknowledged by many Italian and English writers and that "the diffuse drama which Solera had distilled from an epic poem is replaced by a far tauter, more concentrated plot which not only makes fewer demands on our credulity than I Lombardi but also avoids the problem of a second tenor who needs to be weightier and more heroic than the first."Budden, p. 343 He continues by acknowledging that the newly composed numbers and the repositioning of the original ones were: :soldered together by linking passages of far greater significance than the string-accompanied recitative which they replace. The entire opera, as befits one designed for the French stage, is more 'through-composed' than its parent work; and only a sentimentalist could regret the omission of all that was most embarrassingly naïf in the original score.

A philosophical critique of charity can be found in Oscar Wilde's essay The Soul of Man Under Socialism, where he calls it "a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution . . . usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over [the poor's] private lives", as well as a remedy that prolongs the "disease" of poverty, rather than curing it. Wilde's thoughts are cited with approval by Slavoj Žižek, and the Slovenian thinker adds his description of the effect of charity on the charitable: Friedrich Engels, in his 1845 treatise on the condition of the working class in England, points out that charitable giving, whether by governments or individuals, is often seen by the givers as a means to conceal suffering that is unpleasant to see. Engels quotes from a letter to the editor of an English newspaper who complains that ::streets are haunted by swarms of beggars, who try to awaken the pity of the passers-by in a most shameless and annoying manner, by exposing their tattered clothing, sickly aspect, and disgusting wounds and deformities.

G. K. Chesterton stated, "It is not the death of little Nell, but the life of little Nell, that I object to", arguing that the maudlin effect of his description of her life owed much to the gregarious nature of Dickens's grief, his "despotic" use of people's feelings to move them to tears in works like this.. The question as to whether Dickens belongs to the tradition of the sentimental novel is debatable. Valerie Purton, in her book Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition, sees him continuing aspects of this tradition, and argues that his "sentimental scenes and characters [are] as crucial to the overall power of the novels as his darker or comic figures and scenes", and that "Dombey and Son is [ ... ] Dickens's greatest triumph in the sentimentalist tradition". The Encyclopædia Britannica online comments that, despite "patches of emotional excess", such as the reported death of Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol (1843), "Dickens cannot really be termed a sentimental novelist". In Oliver Twist Dickens provides readers with an idealised portrait of a boy so inherently and unrealistically good that his values are never subverted by either brutal orphanages or coerced involvement in a gang of young pickpockets.