sentimentalize

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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

“Stonewalling” doesn’t sentimentalize or squeeze tears for Lynn, who, for all her meekness, naivete and often-foolish decisions, is tough enough to have long ago waived her right to self-pity.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2023

Before the war, it was an era of deceit and looming crisis; after, we see two responses — escapism, into nature and landscape, and attempts to sentimentalize the unresolved problems of the still-young republic.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2020

They don’t sentimentalize long-standing narratives or “this is how it’s always been” thinking.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2019

How surprised the school-children looked, to be sure, when the Doctor of Divinity from the city tried to sentimentalize, in addressing them, about "the bobolink in the woods"!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 by Various