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
As a bright October day unfolds, the contest mingles with an unavoidable sense of inevitability, but not enough for these once-a-week chums to unnecessarily sentimentalize the situation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025
Davis is not a person to sentimentalize a body’s expiration, whether goldfish or human.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
She sighed; to sentimentalize and receive no response in kind, is like sitting down on a chair which isn't there.
From The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
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
Songs many of us have heard our whole lives sentimentalized, usually arranged with enough saccharine to produce insulin shock, are given weight and take on deep meaning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
His plays about ordinary people were what made his work stand out after decades of sentimentalized theater.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2018
His sentimentalized egotism and bland sensuality pass belief.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
“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
“Booksmart” has been criticized for sentimentalizing high school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2019
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
