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

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

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

The banished Missourians have, however, as yet found no Longfellow to sentimentalize over them or to idealize, in a story of Evangeline, their misfortunes and their character.

From The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War by Abel, Annie Heloise