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

But when he learned he’d be inducted into the Hall of Fame early next year, Kenseth couldn’t help but sentimentalize a bit.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 8, 2022

Davis is not a person to sentimentalize a body’s expiration, whether goldfish or human.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2022

They did not moralize, or philosophize, or sentimentalize; were never subtle, intellectual, or abstract.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)