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

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

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

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2019

“We should not sentimentalize the American experience,” he said.

From Washington Post • Jul. 30, 2019

Like Shelley, Hunt had so great an inclination to sentimentalize and idealize friendship that sometimes after the first brief rhapsody of fresh acquaintance he suffered bitter disillusionment.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette