sentimentalization

Such sentimentalization is really a form of infantilization — akin to caricaturing indigenous people as "noble savages" or destitute people as "the virtuous poor."

Latex Conquers All 2005

Such sentimentalization is really a form of infantilization — akin to caricaturing indigenous people as "noble savages" or destitute people as "the virtuous poor."

Latex Conquers All 2005

Such sentimentalization is really a form of infantilization — akin to caricaturing indigenous people as "noble savages" or destitute people as "the virtuous poor."

Latex Conquers All 2005

There ARE those who manage to avoid this sentimentalization.

Six million what Roger Sutton 2007

As for the sentimentalization of history, I don't think this has much to do with teaching from the head or the heart.

Six million what Roger Sutton 2007

These people eventually die, though, and while in the best possible worlds all their narratives and accounts would be preserved and society would continue to remember what happened, even this would not be enough to avoid the sentimentalization that comes with the passage of time.

Six million what Roger Sutton 2007

We have seen a similar development in this country, though we often call it Dianafication – a general over-sentimentalization of every issue.

Archive 2007-01-01 Richard 2007

And therefore they remain idols in whose shape we worship a sentimentalization of ourselves.

Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

That's a slippery and pretentious term, granted, but when a Jewish writer makes such claim to "truth" about the Jewish sensibility, including claiming past Jewish masters as Singer and Bruno Schulz as inspiration, and then delivers instead an idealization and sentimentalization of that dark history we, as Jews, painfully share-- it can very upsetting.

IN WHICH HEROES STUMBLE TEV 2005

In her sentimentalization of the twenty-one-year-old "Romeo" with a history of alleged abuse of other women, abandoned children, mental trouble, inability to hold a job, and, yes, hefty criminal charges (on the record, no matter how reported), Levine does not think there was anything the thirteen-year-old had to be saved from.

Priests and Boys: An Exchange Hirsch, David 2002