Reception
did not enjoy nearly as much publicity or success at the box office as ... It was not a particularly popular selection among critics looking for films to review. But as soon as the public fascination with Austen adaptations became obvious, critics hurried to include reviews of Persuasion, which they had previously ignored, in their film reviews of Sense and Sensibility. This juxtaposing of the two films led to a curious trend among critics to praise the "pretty" 1995 film version of Sense and Sensibility and to condemn the "gritty" 1995 film Persuasion. This seems to indicate a public privileging of the romantic over the realistic. It also seems to indicate a preference for the "hyperreal" over the "real".
— Amanda Collins comparing both films' reception.Read more about this topic: Persuasion (1995 Film)
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“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
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“To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul. A true conversion, a true Christ, is now, as always, to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)