sentimentalize

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

For a while, that omission feels like the right decision, born of a principled refusal to sentimentalize a killer or ascribe his actions to a tidy, convenient set of motives.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2022

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

“Well, I can’t see that we get much ahead by trying to sentimentalize the situation,” he said, with a gesture that seemed one of frustration.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)

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

And yet France has its romanticism too, which finds vent in a supercredulous religiosity, in a pictorial sentimentalized Christianity, such as we encounter in Chateaubriand's "Génie du Christianisme" and "Les Martyrs."

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

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