Sentimentalized

Not coincidentally, emotional relationships between parents and children were less affectionate back then -- and childhood was much less sentimentalized. ❋ Wray Herbert (2011)

ÂSome stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity." ❋ RJ (2011)

The stories and memoirs written by newer waves of immigrants to America - writers like Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz and Gish Jen - commute back and forth between the old world and the new, while the immigrant community, unlike�Kazan's lively Brooklyn streets, is much less sentimentalized and more fragmented and mobile. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It could be argued that this sort of easy portrayal of the conflict between decency and depravity is false to the actual content of evil, a sentimentalized response. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When we're nostalgic, we think about interactions with significant others in a sentimentalized past, and those social memories boost feelings of fellowship, researchers suggested. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The general take on the power of storytelling and music is badly overwrought and sentimentalized. ❋ Unknown (2009)

All of these forces transformed grief from a commonplace eventuality into an experience to be feared and to a certain extent sentimentalized. ❋ Ruth Davis Konigsberg (2011)

Some stalwart grad student could write quite a paper on the undertones and resonances of a paragraph like this one: "Through British veins runs the poisonous fake idealism of "human rights" and "sensitivity," of happy-clappy multicultural groveling and sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism -- the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity." ❋ RJ (2011)

By the 20th century the grim realities of early colonial life had been replaced with a sentimentalized and romanticized version of a reinvented past. ❋ Ada Louise Huxtable (2011)