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sentimentalising

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  • verb Present participle of sentimentalise.

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Examples

  • There was no sentimentalising, no fond foolishness of youth; nor was there that cool, calm poise which comes of the calculation and discretion of age.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • To a large extent Labour's concern for child poverty is a way of attempting to preserve the welfare state by sentimentalising it.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • The sentimentalising of backward cultures is a recurrant theme - the 'noble savage'.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • The sentimentalising of backward cultures is a recurrant theme - the 'noble savage'.

    John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009

  • Glasgow is much of the problem - they have an Irish-like ability at brawling, self-regard, excuse-making and sentimentalising.

    Whae's Like Us ? Laban 2005

  • The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, while it has the defence of being a Plasticine fantasy, is also guilty of sentimentalising and simplifying England; but unexpectedly this vision no longer feels like the concoction of a "heritage" country for export but as a heroic refusal to bend to American expectation.

    Archive 2005-10-01 2005

  • The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, while it has the defence of being a Plasticine fantasy, is also guilty of sentimentalising and simplifying England; but unexpectedly this vision no longer feels like the concoction of a "heritage" country for export but as a heroic refusal to bend to American expectation.

    What links Gromit with Pinter 2005

  • As for Nineteen Eighty-Four, which owes a lot to Jack London, it is "merely an exercise in emotional vulgarity, all flaring surfaces and bogus special effects, its bleakness coexisting with an altogether ghastly brand of guilt-ridden upper-bourgeois sentimentalising of the working class."

    The saint of common decency 2003

  • Covering up injustice, cowardly backing up despots, sentimentalising mediocrity, idolising tyrants and the like were not part of African values.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • National Assembly, she said covering up injustice, cowardly backing up despots, sentimentalising mediocrity, idolising tyrants and the like were not part of African values.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

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