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
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
How surprised the school-children looked, to be sure, when the Doctor of Divinity from the city tried to sentimentalize, in addressing them, about "the bobolink in the woods"!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various
You talked about loss during the pandemic, but it isn't sentimentalized.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
But our policy is still based on a sentimentalized, whitewashed past that isn’t helping our future.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2022
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
We rarely sentimentalized consciously, and still more seldom openly, about the present state of Venice as contrasted with her past glory.
From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells
McGee accentuates Kenneth’s somber shading to a degree that risks sentimentalizing the character.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
“The Nosebleed,” in which she plays both her father and her bloody-nosed 5-year-old son, goes some distance toward atoning for that without sentimentalizing the past.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2021
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
Sunday morning—led to some sentimentalizing of our Academy days.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
