How To Use Sentimentalize In A Sentence

  • This book sentimentalizes the suffering of the disabled.
  • 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
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  • 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?
  • We sentimentalize the great figures of our past, and then we find out that they were human beings who did both things that were exceptional and other things that perhaps weren't savory at all.
  • In most films, these matters are sentimentalized or skirted altogether.
  • It's a Paris of the '60s - that most tumultuous and sentimentalized of decades - and comes with all the requisite anger, anxiousness and idealism.
  • In many other particulars he enfeebles, dandifies, and sentimentalises Dante's fierce, abrupt tragedy; holding the reader by the button while he prattles in his garrulous way of Paulo's "taste" -- A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
  • Historical fiction runs the risk of degenerating into joining the dots of known facts with overdrawn, sentimentalised characters.
  • Too much poetry sentimentalizes the mind
  • These experiences have sentimentalized her
  • In an age in which young girls were sentimentalized as emblems of purity and beauty, Carroll regarded little girls with great adoration, almost worship.
  • 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?
  • All of these forces transformed grief from a commonplace eventuality into an experience to be feared and to a certain extent sentimentalized. The Truth About Grief
  • 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?
  • The stories and memoirs written by newer waves of immigrants to America - writers like Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz and Gish Jen - commute back and forth between the old world and the new, while the immigrant community, unlike�Kazan's lively Brooklyn streets, is much less sentimentalized and more fragmented and mobile. From Dinaw Mengestu, A 'How To' With Few Answers
  • The highlight of their year is a pageant scripted by a poetaster whose outdated politics sentimentalize the indigenous culture. The Times Literary Supplement
  • But, although it's undeniably visceral, in the end it's a sharp-witted study of sentimentalised violence and the use of language as a form of moral camouflage.
  • There were what they called dower rights in the age, and the people who want to sentimentalize this will say, Well, there was no reason for Shakespeare or the lawyer to write anything in because everyone understood that she ` d have these dower rights, as his surviving wife. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
  • He's the kind of filmmaker who doesn't hesitate to over-sentimentalize.
  • And because he wants, intermittently, to sentimentalize their dilemmas, he has a hard time generating genuinely potent satire.
  • But as long as you make the problems genuine and the characters strive with all their considerable abilities to solve them, you are not going to patronise them or sentimentalise them.
  • ÂSome 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?
  • In his paintings of newsboys, bootblacks, and street urchins, John George Brown sentimentalized urban poverty, while Blythe depicted children smoking, stealing, and fighting.
  • This self-inculpation for events not involving the apologists' complicity personalizes and sentimentalizes an act of crime or dereliction.
  • Reading his book over a century later, in an age that has sentimentalised illness and therapy, his remarks sound disconcertingly moderate.
  • Kate's predicament is never sentimentalized, and the tough decisions she faces aren't simplified to bring about a tidy little ending.
  • 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.
  • Yet what makes this a fine play is that Lamont Stewart neither sentimentalises Maggie nor treats working-class life as unrelievedly grim. Men Should Weep - review
  • ÂSome 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?
  • Instead, it's uncomfortably present-day in its stark depiction of the machinations of money, wealth and love, all heightened by Davies's refusal to sentimentalize those topics.
  • There is nothing sentimentalized or homogenized about this story or the characters.
  • Don't sentimentalize the past events
  • The story of a nun who befriends a man on death row never sentimentalises the issues, but is an unforgettable study of capital punishment's cynicism.
  • Another criticism is that they sentimentalise the past or make it antiquarian by abnegating the context and concentrating on the artefacts.
  • He seems either to fear women or to sentimentalize them.
  • In an age in which young girls were sentimentalized as emblems of purity and beauty, Carroll regarded little girls with great adoration, almost worship.

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