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Recent Examples of sentimentalizeWaititi sees sentimentalizing a culture as limiting it.—Rebecca Keegan, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 May 2023 Is trading in the currency of the past a way to distance himself from a lonesome present? Raffish and boyish at the same time — or switching between either mode as a cover for the other — O’Connor’s deft, droll performance implies such possibilities without sentimentalizing them.—Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 May 2023 Trendy, vapid Chazelle sentimentalized a token Mexican immigrant in Babylon, but Jordan and waggish co-screenwriter William Monahan, who scripted Scorsese’s The Departed, plays with ethnicity (those Irish mugs, Lange’s perfect brogue, and Cumming’s perfect Southern twang).—Armond White, National Review, 17 Feb. 2023 The play that has been so keen-eyed about sentimentalizing the industry starts to sentimentalize a little towards the end.—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 10 May 2022 See All Example Sentences for sentimentalize
Afterwards, Nick Cushing, then the NYCFC head coach, effused his creative midfielder.
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Michael Lewis,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
The enigmatic trophy wife at the center, Michaela, is played not by Nicole Kidman—as is, at this point, stylistic tradition—but by Julianne Moore, effusing lavender mist and toxic insecurity.
This was the mid 1980s and tandem skydiving hadn’t been popularized yet, so his father, Roger, adjusted accordingly by stuffing carpet padding into the leg pads to stop him from fussing.
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Angelina Liu,
People.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Inside, Seán glanced briefly away from the television as the women fussed at Orla’s return.
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