sentimentalize

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What happens to a created family of friends, which modern culture has sentimentalized with the zeal once reserved for romantic relationships, when marriage and children occur?

From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2024

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

The book’s five-by-seven-inch format meant that the pictures were small, and I found the folksy tone of Hughes’s text distracting: it spilled over the photographs and sentimentalized them.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 16, 2019

And if we grant a raison d'être to the sentimentalized historical drama, no fault can reasonably be found with lyrical passages like that at the end of the third act of 'The Piccolomini'.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin