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

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

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

Before the war, it was an era of deceit and looming crisis; after, we see two responses — escapism, into nature and landscape, and attempts to sentimentalize the unresolved problems of the still-young republic.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2020

I have talked with no sensible person who proposes to sentimentalize over the law-breaker.

From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Osborne, Thomas Mott