sentimentalize
verb (used without object)
to indulge in sentiment.
sentimentalization
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a word derived from
sentimentalize.
Example Sentences
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And the move to TV also means some softening and sentimentalization.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Quoting Anna Quindlen and other mainstream feminists, Didion attacks the "abstraction" and "sentimentalization" of the case.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2021
“But it’s all general. What are they talking about? A lot of people are out there fixing things. There’s a certain amount of sentimentalization when you get to movies.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2017
But this argument again relies on a sentimentalization of patients’ last weeks and days.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 15, 2016
In these two stories you will not find the slightest sentimentalization of her subject matter, nor is it keyed so tightly as some of her previous work.
From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
