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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

As a bright October day unfolds, the contest mingles with an unavoidable sense of inevitability, but not enough for these once-a-week chums to unnecessarily sentimentalize the situation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2025

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

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022

Flint was in no mood to sentimentalize over sunsets.

From Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes by Maud Wilder Goodwin

History is sentimentalized, making the sketchy story lines seem even more contrived.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

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

We rarely sentimentalized consciously, and still more seldom openly, about the present state of Venice as contrasted with her past glory.

From Venetian Life by William Dean Howells

The key to making this work — which is to say making us care — is the performance of Groff, who humanizes Frank’s choices without sentimentalizing his arc.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2024

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

He maintains a reporter’s objectivity that allows him to avoid caricaturing and sentimentalizing a lifestyle so often portrayed as if stuck in the cattle-drive era or worse, a bad spaghetti western.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2018

Sunday morning—led to some sentimentalizing of our Academy days.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover