sentimentalize
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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
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
Flint was in no mood to sentimentalize over sunsets.
From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin
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
The Obama-Biden origin story has been often told, and often sentimentalized.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2019
Mrs. Vervain sentimentalized their departure a little, but her daughter made no comment on the scene they were leaving.
From A Foregone Conclusion by William Dean Howells
“Booksmart” has been criticized for sentimentalizing high school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2019
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
One big help is casting great American actors in all these roles, but it’s also about not sentimentalizing or patronizing the characters — showing them as human beings first, not types.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2017
Sunday morning—led to some sentimentalizing of our Academy days.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
