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
"Oh, he was taken in by it, no doubt; it was something to sentimentalize over and be self-sacrificing about."
From A Woman of Genius by Mary Hunter Austin
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
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
His sentimentalized egotism and bland sensuality pass belief.
From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch
McGee accentuates Kenneth’s somber shading to a degree that risks sentimentalizing the character.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
And sentimentalizing him may be an attempt to turn a dream figure into something more human.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
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
Sunday morning—led to some sentimentalizing of our Academy days.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
