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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sentimentalize .
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Examples
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Rock & roll too often condescends to, ignores or sentimentalizes the everyday life of the people who move in and out of that light, who populate the highways, bars, and factories of these songs.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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The film tames and sentimentalizes him, and in showing respect for Barney's author turns his creation into something unforgivably respectable.
Whose Barney's Version is This, Anyway? Beverly Akerman 2011
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Rock & roll too often condescends to, ignores or sentimentalizes the everyday life of the people who move in and out of that light, who populate the highways, bars, and factories of these songs.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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Rock & roll too often condescends to, ignores or sentimentalizes the everyday life of the people who move in and out of that light, who populate the highways, bars, and factories of these songs.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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Rock & roll too often condescends to, ignores or sentimentalizes the everyday life of the people who move in and out of that light, who populate the highways, bars, and factories of these songs.
Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness Peter Birkenhead 2010
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Her fondness for her characters softens but never sentimentalizes them, which is why Oliver Platt's Alex can be a fount of self-indulgence, yet so likable - and even, with that delicate cleft chin on that giant head, romantic.
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Others took the opposite tack, arguing that the picture sentimentalizes blacks in the tradition of liberals like Norman Mailer, whose cele–brated essay “The White Negro” was published in 1957.
STAR PETER BISKIND 2010
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"Only a fool or a fraud sentimentalizes the merciless reality of war," he will say.
McCain's Foreign Policy Speech Today: "Only A Fool Or A Fraud" Sentimentalizes War 2009
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Only a fool or a fraud sentimentalizes the merciless reality of war.
In Big Speech, McCain Supports Bush's War But Distances Himself From Bush's Approach 2009
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Indeed, the film's ending, with Kitty living happily at home with her father, devoted to her little Walter, sentimentalizes the novel's considerably more ambivalent vision of Kitty's likely future.
Film 2009
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