sentimentalism
Example Sentences
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NW the movie exemplifies what happens when cinema or television get their hands on contemporary literary novels, which typically end up shortened, simplified, possibly sentimentalised and with some characters shed or shrunk.
From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2016
Coogan looks like Raymond, but his sleazy world and his sad private life are sentimentalised and provided with no larger social context to illuminate them.
From The Guardian • Apr. 27, 2013
I don't like plays sentimentalised by melody, or cockneys singing with arms akimbo, or women being charmed by bullies.
From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2012
Goethe sentimentalised it in The Sorrows of Young Werther, "the appearance of the marvellous tree with its wax candles, sweets, and apples would put them in heavenly rapture."
From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2012
The one grave shock of the Boer War has long been explained and sentimentalised away.
From An Englishman Looks at the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
