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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

“Stonewalling” doesn’t sentimentalize or squeeze tears for Lynn, who, for all her meekness, naivete and often-foolish decisions, is tough enough to have long ago waived her right to self-pity.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023

Davis is not a person to sentimentalize a body’s expiration, whether goldfish or human.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

But Uncle John was a brave fellow, and worked on without stopping to sentimentalize.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various

Will Swenson, the accomplished Broadway actor, offers an unusually sympathetic yet never sentimentalized Sweeney.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 3, 2026

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

That’s a startling and somewhat sentimentalized notion, but Ms. Jackson and Mr. Daniels, inerrant in their dryness, pull it off.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2018

And it was this romantic folly of his which vexed him now; not the fact that a simple child over whose fate he had sentimentalized, was a rich and popular stage-dancer.

From The Golden Silence by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

McGee accentuates Kenneth’s somber shading to a degree that risks sentimentalizing the character.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

And sentimentalizing him may be an attempt to turn a dream figure into something more human.

From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

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