sentimentalize

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Although this second season has its share of "Rogue One" cameos, including the return of Forest Whitaker’s Saw Gerrera, it mostly brushes off the franchise’s tendency to sentimentalize.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2025

To his credit, he refuses to sentimentalize the character.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 23, 2023

But when he learned he’d be inducted into the Hall of Fame early next year, Kenseth couldn’t help but sentimentalize a bit.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2022

But fealty isn’t always a productive strategy, and while the first film greatly tempers the book’s shocks, it doesn’t sentimentalize the source material, as this one does.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

It was a touching little document—many people know it well—and the youngest Miss Dodd, who had never been known to sentimentalize over anything before, blew her nose rather violently when she had read it.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917 by Various