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
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
Davis is not a person to sentimentalize a body’s expiration, whether goldfish or human.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
And under these December skies, As bland as May’s in other climes, I move, and muse my idle rhymes And subtly sentimentalize.
From Poems by William Dean Howells
Davidson, the Jerry Lewis to his Dean Martin, portrays a sentimentalized version of the idiots he sometimes plays.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2025
You talked about loss during the pandemic, but it isn't sentimentalized.
From Salon ● Jun. 9, 2023
With it, she pursues those very subjects — motherhood and the climate emergency — that can seem too large, too sentimentalized, too guilt-inducing to be subjects of successful, let alone serious, realist fiction.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2020
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
Our religions and moralities have been trimmed to flatter us, till they are all emasculate and sentimentalized, and only please and weaken.
From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various
“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
