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Quoting Anna Quindlen and other mainstream feminists, Didion attacks the "abstraction" and "sentimentalization" of the case.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2021

There is, finally, an unknowability to McNamara — or a failure on the series’s part to give her real dimension — that results in a flattening, and a sentimentalization, of the sections devoted to her.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2020

“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 the folk-lore of all races, despite the sentimentalization of abasement for dramatic effect, it is always power and grandeur that count in the end.

From Damn! A Book of Calumny by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)