sentimentalize

IPA: sɛntʌmˈɛntʌɫaɪz

Examples of "sentimentalize" in Sentences

I'm not sure that I would use the word sentimentalize, myself.
Watch the way you sentimentalize a baby bootie and take offense at a pair of boxer shorts.
If you, like most Americans, don't know the truth about "your people", you're doomed to perpetuate the crap and sentimentalize the good.
This temper and its results in a household of young women became a character in Little Women and one of the things Louisa refused to sentimentalize.
And no woman's life should be sacrificed by those whose religious beliefs subordinate her to men, by those who sentimentalize motherhood as divine will or intuition and by those who do not respect her.
I think that this strategy in Rabbit is Rich mostly works -- it's still a pretty good book that manages to make Harry Angstrom a more sympathetic figure than he is in either Rabbit, Run or Rabbit Redux but doesn't sentimentalize him in the process.
Schrag notes the rapid changes in Latino families already in the United States, and presents the provocative proposal that they may someday resemble the Irish and the Germans in their ability to set aside, forget, and sentimentalize who they once were.