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/sˌɛntɪmˈɛntəlˌaɪz/
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VERB
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make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities
Too much poetry sentimentalizes the mind
These experiences have sentimentalized her - act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression
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look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment
Don't sentimentalize the past events
How To Use sentimentalise In A Sentence
- The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
- In most films, these matters are sentimentalized or skirted altogether.
- We censor it, sentimentalise it, treat it as a commodity.
- One sister in London, England, sentimentalizes Montreal and pines to be here.
- It could be argued that this sort of easy portrayal of the conflict between decency and depravity is false to the actual content of evil, a sentimentalized response. Translated Texts
- When we're nostalgic, we think about interactions with significant others in a sentimentalized past, and those social memories boost feelings of fellowship, researchers suggested. Week in Ideas: Christopher Shea
- We have sentimentalized our understanding of God's relationship to humanity.
- He seems either to fear women or to sentimentalize them.
- And to say that Simpson doesn't sentimentalize this role would be a massive understatement.
- Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity. Richard (RJ) Eskow: England's Ashes - America's Future?
