sentimentalize
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Their latest collaboration does so “one bird at a time,” asking us to join two fine and observant artists in a high calling—not to sentimentalize the world, but to notice it before we lose it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
For a while, that omission feels like the right decision, born of a principled refusal to sentimentalize a killer or ascribe his actions to a tidy, convenient set of motives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
Davis is not a person to sentimentalize a body’s expiration, whether goldfish or human.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
Eleanor, who only went to Medfield when their wedding anniversary came round, and she dragged him out to sit by the river and sentimentalize!
From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
What happens to a created family of friends, which modern culture has sentimentalized with the zeal once reserved for romantic relationships, when marriage and children occur?
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2024
You talked about loss during the pandemic, but it isn't sentimentalized.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
More problematically, Austen’s plight is sentimentalized by a score leaning heavily on swelling, sound-alike ballads of introspection — overkill, despite the considerable vocal power of the cast.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 22, 2019
His plays about ordinary people were what made his work stand out after decades of sentimentalized theater.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2018
She sentimentalized, flirted, romped, laughed, dressed in a picturesque manner, and "was every thing by turns, but nothing long," evidently bent upon bringing to her feet the three gentlemen.
From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
The key to making this work — which is to say making us care — is the performance of Groff, who humanizes Frank’s choices without sentimentalizing his arc.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024
Mills, the author of such best-selling books as The Power Elite and White Collar, often overstated his points, and he had a tendency toward sentimentalizing Castro.
From Slate ● May 8, 2019
Without deriding or sentimentalizing the Amish, Castillo illustrates their culture while showing that Amish adherence to traditions and silence on sensitive situations can allow evil to seep in unexpectedly.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 10, 2018
He maintains a reporter’s objectivity that allows him to avoid caricaturing and sentimentalizing a lifestyle so often portrayed as if stuck in the cattle-drive era or worse, a bad spaghetti western.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2018
Sunday morning—led to some sentimentalizing of our Academy days.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
