Verb (used with object) : He sentimentalized the relationship until all real meaning was lost. From Dictionary.com.
But it is too easy to sentimentalise, to labour the stark fact that war is a grotesque, irrational absurdity. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
My view is that Winterbottom has consciously taken to extremes a situation that other types of drama would evasively sentimentalise. From Wordnik.com. [The Killer Inside Me] Reference
Let's not sentimentalise medieval Christianity; it had a very long history of persecuting heretics such as the Cathars, not to mention Jews. From Wordnik.com. [The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad] Reference
Any fears I entered with thinking that the film might over sentimentalise or push the film with an overly patriotic message were gone early on. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: The films of 2006 - The fives and the zeros] Reference
As the years of the war continue to float downstream, releasing themselves from memory into history, it becomes increasingly easy to sentimentalise them. From Wordnik.com. [A Rude Awakening]
The Edinburgh literati worked to sentimentalise Burns during his life and after his death, dismissing his education by calling him a “heaven-taught ploughman.”. From Wordnik.com. [robert burns | some hae meat « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
This was a big moment in South African history, world politics and sport, and I wondered if Eastwood would over sentimentalise it or give the story the weight and insight it deserves. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker Review: Invictus] Reference
Dickens would sentimentalise or laugh over you; I do neither. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a Young Man] Reference
It doesn't do to sentimentalise about evil, and to say that it is hidden good!. From Wordnik.com. [Father Payne]
The average man can like a lot of girls enough to spoon and sentimentalise with them. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Law] Reference
It's a timely reminder not to sentimentalise the artistic integrity of the very young. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
A lot of this is just nostalgia - we like to sentimentalise the past and we like to scorn the present. From Wordnik.com. [DesiPundit] Reference
As to the letters -- why, think how pleasant it will be for me to sentimentalise over them in my old age!. From Wordnik.com. [The Wooden Horse] Reference
It seems to me a little like leaving a man unburied in order that we may come and sentimentalise over his bones. From Wordnik.com. [Father Payne]
As a nation, we sentimentalise animals: we give millions to the RSPCA, we fund donkey sanctuaries and dog homes. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
She had been too well balanced of brain to allow herself to make a tragedy of it or softly to sentimentalise of loss. From Wordnik.com. [Robin] Reference
Of course this meant among other things that they hammered it all in literally: but let us not sentimentalise over that. From Wordnik.com. [On The Art of Reading] Reference
We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalise over Italy and ecstacise over Spain -- but England we love. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
He was, in this way, one of the first authors not to romanticise or sentimentalise poverty and the brutal, relentless toil of the working classes. From Wordnik.com. [British Blogs] Reference
Adams could eulogise monsters because the eulogies served a cause which needed to sentimentalise where it came from in order to justify what it was doing. From Wordnik.com. [Slugger O'Toole] Reference
By far the larger part of the staff are business men of the Wall Street type -- not at all the kind who have been accustomed to sentimentalise over philanthropy. From Wordnik.com. [Out To Win The Story of America in France] Reference
What right had he to sentimentalise a marriage founded on such base connivances, and how could he have imagined that in so doing he was acting a disinterested part?. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit and the Wild Woman] Reference
Florence possessed this liberty, of which all these English writers who sentimentalise over this unique and unfortunate Ferrarese traitor speak with so much feeling and awe?. From Wordnik.com. [Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition] Reference
The Italy indeed that we sentimentalise and romance about was an ardently mercantile country; though I suppose it loved not its ledgers less, but its frescoes and altar-pieces more. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Hours] Reference
In natural reaction we tend to insist, as I have been doing, on the other and less obvious side; and in the criticism of the last century there is even a tendency to sentimentalise the character. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth] Reference
In his Renaissance guise, whether projected upon actual history, as in the person of Richard III, or strutting sublimated through Marlowe's blank verse, he spared at any rate to sentimentalise his brutality. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
There, dear boy, I won't sentimentalise; but that's the truth; I shall wake up to-morrow and for many days, feeling that some good fortune has befallen me; but we should have found each other some time, even if. From Wordnik.com. [Watersprings] Reference
Their admiration and enthusiasm are reserved for a buried past, and over triumphant rebellion they will sentimentalise for pages, provided it is securely bestowed in some historic age that can trouble them no more. From Wordnik.com. [Essays in Rebellion] Reference
"Clive, are you trying to make yourself sentimentalise over that. From Wordnik.com. [Athalie] Reference
There’s so much potential, both good stuff about Israel and eye-openers to de-sentimentalise the image the U.K. has of ‘Palestinians’. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Don't for heaven's sake sentimentalise!. From Wordnik.com. [The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation] Reference
Shall I sentimentalise about. From Wordnik.com. [The Incomplete Amorist] Reference
One shouldn't sentimentalise. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference
"No, don't let us sentimentalise. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Merton, Colonist] Reference
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