Verb (used with object) : He sentimentalized the relationship until all real meaning was lost. From Dictionary.com.
She had not come here to encourage sentimentalization. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
There ARE those who manage to avoid this sentimentalization. From Wordnik.com. [Six million what] Reference
And therefore they remain idols in whose shape we worship a sentimentalization of ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
As for the sentimentalization of history, I don't think this has much to do with teaching from the head or the heart. From Wordnik.com. [Six million what] Reference
We have seen a similar development in this country, though we often call it Dianafication – a general over-sentimentalization of every issue. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
These people eventually die, though, and while in the best possible worlds all their narratives and accounts would be preserved and society would continue to remember what happened, even this would not be enough to avoid the sentimentalization that comes with the passage of time. From Wordnik.com. [Six million what] Reference
The romanticization, sentimentalization and idealization of life with a "forever young". From Wordnik.com. [The Buie Knife] Reference
The movie does a great job of not subscribing to the sentimentalization of the working class but also allowing The Ram to go out with integrity. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Damn! A Book of Calumny] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
Page 107 idea is in it; it is simply a sentimentalization of the unpleasant; if it were not for the naughtiness of some of the scenes no one would read it. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
His sentimentalization of it is gross -- there is no other word -- and at bottom the story is as wildly untrue to life as the most arrant Sunday-school prize ever published by the Religious Tract Society. From Wordnik.com. [Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911] Reference
While reading Beddoes's lines as referring to himself courts a serious literary sentimentalization of a man who, after all, did consciously choose to leave Great Britain to study medicine for the rest of his life. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
Later on, it found historians and anatomists, and in one work, at least, to wit, "Huckleberry Finn," it was studied and projected with the highest art, but no such impulse to make imaginative use of it showed itself contemporaneously, and there was not even the crude sentimentalization of here and now that one finds in the popular novels of today. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Prefaces] Reference
I wonder if Ansky’s/Tolkien’s sentimentalization of a pre-modern pastoral past is an essential part of fantasy literature as a genre. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Ongoing Debate Over Jewish Fantasy Literature] Reference
Jerome McGann differentiates between poetry that enacts, as in the sensibility of a poet like Frances Greville, and the self-consciousness of a poem like Hannah More’s sentimentalization of sensibility. From Wordnik.com. [Wordsworths Balladry: Real Men Wanted] Reference
"undocumented" servant class by far too many "documented" Americans who assuage their guilt by pathetic sentimentalization of immigration.). From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
LearnThatWord and the Open Dictionary of English are programs by LearnThat Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit.
Questions? Feedback? We want to hear from you!
Email us
or click here for instant support.
Copyright © 2005 and after - LearnThat Foundation. Patents pending.