sentimentalize

Example Sentences

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The way Miranda romanticizes Washington Heights in his Tony-winning musical “In the Heights” is nothing compared to the way “New York, New York” sentimentalizes the entire island of Manhattan.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023

What makes Mr. Church a travesty rather than just an embarrassment is the way it sentimentalizes their relationship.

From The Verge • Apr. 27, 2016

I had “Boyhood” picked ever since it opened: almost everyone sentimentalizes his youth, and lots of people revere their parents.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 17, 2015

A refreshingly direct and amusingly tactless interrogator, he neither sentimentalizes nor canonizes his feisty models, who handle their variously truncated limbs with casual practicality.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2010

Sickly I pondered how the lover Wrongs the unanswering tomb, And sentimentalizes over What earned a better doom.

From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke by Brooke, Rupert