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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sentimentalise .
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Examples
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Yet what makes this a fine play is that Lamont Stewart neither sentimentalises Maggie nor treats working-class life as unrelievedly grim.
Men Should Weep - review Michael Billington 2010
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Meadows never sentimentalises or aggrandises these people.
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Mr. EVARTS understands, sentimentalises less than most interpreters; seems to know a good deal.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Various
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Instead of idealising life, if we may so express ourselves, it sentimentalises it.
An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times Thomas Hill Green
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In many other particulars he enfeebles, dandifies, and sentimentalises Dante's fierce, abrupt tragedy; holding the reader by the button while he prattles in his garrulous way of Paulo's "taste" --
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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Mr. Davitt, I dare say, when he sentimentalises in the House of Commons about his affection for the
A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 Albert Venn Dicey 1878
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But the worst fault of all in this tedious and misguided production is that Nunn sentimentalises the play.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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In explaining his calls for renewed focus on individual and community rights, Cornall sentimentalises 20th century Australia in a manner reminiscent of John Howard's longing for the 1950s:
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In explaining his calls for renewed focus on individual and community rights, Cornall sentimentalises 20th century Australia in a manner reminiscent of John Howard's longing for the 1950s:
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Meadows never sentimentalises or aggrandises these people.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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