Example Sentences

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It was the good-humour of the satirist, not of the sentimentalizer.

From Old and New Masters by Lynd, Robert

His name told you who he was—an aristocrat, a poet, a sentimentalizer, a dealer in fiction!

From Quodlibet by Kennedy, John Pendleton

The sturdy temper of his intellect fits him for a subject which is beset with pitfalls for the sentimentalizer.

From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by Lowell, James Russell

Willis was a kindly saunterer, the first Boston dandy, who began his literary career with grotesque propriety as a sentimentalizer of Bible stories, a performance which Lowell gayly called inspiration and water.

From Literary and Social Essays by Curtis, George William