Structures of sentimentality.
I have been thinking about what this means lately.
sen·ti·men·tal [sen-tuh-men-tl]
–adjective
1. expressive of or appealing to sentiment, esp. the tender emotions and feelings, as love, pity, or nostalgia: a sentimental song.
2. pertaining to or dependent on sentiment: We kept the old photograph for purely sentimental reasons.
3. weakly emotional; mawkishly susceptible or tender: the sentimental Victorians.
4. characterized by or showing sentiment or refined feeling.
sen·ti·ment [sen-tuh-muh
nt]
–noun
1. an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
2. a mental feeling; emotion: a sentiment of pity.
3. refined or tender emotion; manifestation of the higher ormore refined feelings.
4. exhibition or manifestation of feeling or sensibility, or appealto the tender emotions, in literature, art, or music.
5. a thought influenced by or proceeding from feeling oremotion.
6. the thought or feeling intended to be conveyed by words,acts, or gestures as distinguished from the words, acts, orgestures themselves.
I hadn’t viewed any top Youtube videos in a while when I came across a story about American Idol contestant, Chris Medina. I want to try to understand his story in relation to structures of sentimentality.
Here is an article that discusses the use of sentiment in this story
