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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sentimentalize .
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Examples
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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.
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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? RJ 2011
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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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.
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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.
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