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

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

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 Howells, William Dean