Don't sentimentalize the past events. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Verb (used with object) : He sentimentalized the relationship until all real meaning was lost. From Dictionary.com.
I'm not sure that I would use the word sentimentalize, myself. From Wordnik.com. [Six million what] Reference
But she had other things to do than sentimentalize. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Flint was in no mood to sentimentalize over sunsets. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
Nor did she sentimentalize her devotion to the paper. From Wordnik.com. [Dorothy Schiff.] Reference
Some of the women who come to the shop sentimentalize a lot. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
Yet employers tell labor managers they must not sentimentalize. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
Only a fool or fraud sentimentalize the merciless reality of war. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 26, 2008] Reference
In doing this, the book does not sentimentalize them or their crimes. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEWS: Death Sentences] Reference
JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Only a fool or a fraud would sentimentalize this war. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 22, 2006] Reference
It is one of the few films that refuse to idealize or sentimentalize shtetl life. From Wordnik.com. [Filmmakers, Independent European.] Reference
It is difficult, perhaps impossible, to sentimentalize the particulars of goat reproduction. From Wordnik.com. [Ah, Wilderness] Reference
But instead of accepting reality and coping with it, we soften and sentimentalize everything. From Wordnik.com. [A Christmas Bride]
Does a writer sentimentalize Africans as innocent children, corrupted by Western imperialism?. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Art of Argument] Reference
She is a compassionate writer who, more important, loves the world too much to sentimentalize it. From Wordnik.com. [A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Summary and book reviews of A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom.] Reference
"I don't mean to sentimentalize it," Mr. Hamill says of the 15 years of austerity that ended in 1945. From Wordnik.com. [The Journalist as Novelist of New York] Reference
Doctor of Divinity from the city tried to sentimentalize, in addressing them, about "the bobolink in the woods"!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference
Not that I over sentimentalize the 'good old days' but for all the technological advances, there are profound losses. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: April 2, 2006 - April 8, 2006 Archives] Reference
And you don't sentimentalize a scar, or the wound that formed it; the memory, the experience stands for too much in itself. From Wordnik.com. [9/11, Symbols and Scars] Reference
But Joyce does not, like Thomas Mann, sentimentalize his artists by assuming their exclusion from a comfortable bourgeois world. From Wordnik.com. [James Joyce] Reference
He doesn't sentimentalize any of the characters, not even the falsely-accused Lucas, who is easy to respect but difficult to like. From Wordnik.com. [Clarence Brown] Reference
During the holidays especially, we tend to over-sentimentalize family relationships, getting frustrated when it ain't necessarily so. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Cara Barker: Learning To Love From Afar] Reference
And I don't sentimentalize on the evils of society. From Wordnik.com. [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference
It is no good trying to sentimentalize the issue away. From Wordnik.com. [Mankind in the Making] Reference
Nonexistent Native Americans were easier to sentimentalize. From Wordnik.com. [Chicago Reader] Reference
Miss Watts never tried to sentimentalize their relationship. From Wordnik.com. [The Cricket] Reference
It was clear that she did not sentimentalize Hicks's case; and. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Aroostook] Reference
With a mind at ease, I now set myself to sentimentalize with Mdlle. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
She has a marked soft spot for ranch life and doesn't sentimentalize it. From Wordnik.com. [Home - BostonHerald.com] Reference
And I don't want you to sentimentalize any of the things you see in New York. From Wordnik.com. [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference
I am not going to sentimentalize over my copy, for how much of it have I read?. From Wordnik.com. [A Window in Thrums] Reference
"You don't sentimentalize your performance, you don't embellish your performance," Kingsley stressed. From Wordnik.com. [mndaily.com - all articles] Reference
If asking leads us into the temptation to sentimentalize - well, maybe that's an occupational hazard. From Wordnik.com. [Crosscut] Reference
He was not one, this young man who was out for a bit of a lark, to sentimentalize about antiquity or the charm of the unspoiled. From Wordnik.com. [The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story] Reference
He does not sentimentalize over poor women, as we know who scorns people for doing: -- and that is better than hardness, meaning kindly. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
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