# Which named failure modes of forced or sentimental emotional appeal does Sargent (1916) give in Ch. XVIII, and how does he say a writer avoids them without losing feeling?

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1916 US practice. Sargent never uses the word sentimentality in Ch. XVIII-XIX (the word 'sentiment' does not occur in the two chapters; 7 hits in the whole text, all elsewhere). His named failures are: pathos becoming bathos; the too-evident appeal (colors waved, national air played) that yields only a mechanical surface response; the lay figure; the flag dragged in at the finish and 'palpably forced'; violent action in place of repression; the conventional heroine who earns only polite sorrow; sympathy asked for someone the audience does not respect; and vivid stories that will not live in memory. His remedy is the techniques of C3-B295-S101-03; he gives no test. Two outside-chapter lines (Ch. XXVII, Ch. L) call 'cheap sentiment' and flamboyant flag sentiment out by name.

1916 US practice. Sargent never uses the word sentimentality in Ch. XVIII-XIX (the word 'sentiment' does not occur in the two chapters; 7 hits in the whole text, all elsewhere). His named failures are: pathos becoming bathos; the too-evident appeal (colors waved, national air played) that yields only a mechanical surface response; the lay figure; the flag dragged in at the finish and 'palpably forced'; violent action in place of repression; the conventional heroine who earns only polite sorrow; sympathy asked for someone the audience does not respect; and vivid stories that will not live in memory. His remedy is the techniques of C3-B295-S101-03; he gives no test. Two outside-chapter lines (Ch. XXVII, Ch. L) call 'cheap sentiment' and flamboyant flag sentiment out by name.

Curator qualifications: Heart interest, charm and distinction verified as Sargent definitions, with Chesterton quoted as a third party; unsupported trade assertions are flagged by the producer. The -07 review list is derived from the source and its table procedure is a proposal.

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- [sourced_fact] 1916 US practice. Sargent never uses the word sentimentality in Ch. XVIII-XIX (the word 'sentiment' does not occur in the two chapters; 7 hits in the whole text, all elsewhere). His named failures are: pathos becoming bathos; the too-evident appeal (colors waved, national air played) that yields only a mechanical surface response; the lay figure; the flag dragged in at the finish and 'palpably forced'; violent action in place of repression; the conventional heroine who earns only polite sorrow; sympathy asked for someone the audience does not respect; and vivid stories that will not live in memory. His remedy is the techniques of C3-B295-S101-03; he gives no test. Two outside-chapter lines (Ch. XXVII, Ch. L) call 'cheap sentiment' and flamboyant flag sentiment out by name. · locator: sar.flat (a3cff7eb) offsets per candidate · source: https://archive.org/stream/techniqueofphoto00sarg/techniqueofphoto00sarg_djvu.txt

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