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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Edinburgh literati worked to sentimentalise Burns during his life and after his death, dismissing his education by calling him a “heaven-taught ploughman.” ❋ Unknown (2009)
In another story of a woman's hidden life – and women's interior lives are one of Tóibín's great strengths – a rigorous, formidable film-designer returns reluctantly, in old age, from California to Ireland, to dress a film, and by chance comes back into contact with the widow of the once great love of her life, whom she has always refused to regret or sentimentalise. ❋ Hermione Lee (2010)
It's a timely reminder not to sentimentalise the artistic integrity of the very young. ❋ Unknown (2010)
My view is that Winterbottom has consciously taken to extremes a situation that other types of drama would evasively sentimentalise. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Let's not sentimentalise medieval Christianity; it had a very long history of persecuting heretics such as the Cathars, not to mention Jews. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A fool brought it to this island in a pot, and used to lecture and sentimentalise over the tender thing. ❋ Unknown (2005)
Alone among the poets of his generation, he was unwilling to sentimentalise about the beauty of kindness to animals, and at the same time 'to slay the lamb that looks him in the face,' or, what is no less immoral, to devolve that unpleasant process on another person. ❋ Unknown (2001)
English fox-hunter, and the frivolous existence of the fine gentleman present extremes, each in its way so repugnant, that one feels half inclined to smile when called upon to sentimentalise over the lot of a youth forced to pass from one to the other; torn from the stables, to be ushered perhaps into the ball-room. ❋ Unknown (2002)
As the years of the war continue to float downstream, releasing themselves from memory into history, it becomes increasingly easy to sentimentalise them. ❋ Aldiss, Brian (1978)
But it is too easy to sentimentalise, to labour the stark fact that war is a grotesque, irrational absurdity .... ❋ William Henry Lowe Watson (N/A)
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? ❋ Edward Hutton (1922)
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. ❋ Coningsby Dawson (1921)
Of course this meant among other things that they hammered it all in literally: but let us not sentimentalise over that. ❋ Unknown (1920)
Nor shall I ask you to sentimentalise overmuch upon the harm done to a child by teaching him that the bloodthirsty jealous Jehovah of the Book of Joshua is as venerable (being one and the same unalterably, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning) as the Father the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy, revealed to us in the Gospel, invoked for us at the Eucharist. ❋ Unknown (1920)
It doesn't do to sentimentalise about evil, and to say that it is hidden good! ❋ Benson, Arthur C. (1915)
It seems to me a little like leaving a man unburied in order that we may come and sentimentalise over his bones. ❋ Benson, Arthur C. (1915)
Why was he not still the baby that she could take on her knees and kiss and sentimentalise over? ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)
