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Is the sentiment of the following sentence positive or negative? none of the characters or plot-lines are fleshed-out enough to build any interest .
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Is the sentiment of the following sentence positive or negative? merely pretentious -- in a grisly sort of way
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Is the sentiment of the following sentence positive or negative? has fashioned an absorbing look at provincial bourgeois french society .
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positive