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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

They also sentimentalize Thor in ways that make the inevitable sequel feel, at this stage, like a singularly unappealing prospect.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2022

But fealty isn’t always a productive strategy, and while the first film greatly tempers the book’s shocks, it doesn’t sentimentalize the source material, as this one does.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

The tendency to sentimentalize nature has, in our time, largely taken the place of the old tendency to demonize and spiritize it.

From Ways of Nature by John Burroughs

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

She sentimentalized, flirted, romped, laughed, dressed in a picturesque manner, and "was every thing by turns, but nothing long," evidently bent upon bringing to her feet the three gentlemen.

From Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026

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