| 单词 | sentimentalise |
| 例句 | You could denounce it as yet another sentimentalised gander at yet another unremarkable UK workplace. The Call Centre: warm, good-natured, and incredibly annoying 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z But, while I shared the delight in the skill of the production and performance, I also feel that the shows sanitises – and sentimentalises – Walker's original story. The Color Purple – review 2013-07-16T13:12:25Z Yet its tendency to sentimentalise Barrie's peculiar genius has the effect of making death seem like a curiously small adventure. Finding Neverland – review 2012-10-04T12:25:16Z In no Christmas tradition is our ability to sentimentalise more evident than the race for a Christmas No 1. Christmas No 1: James Arthur has killed off the usual good v evil battle 2012-12-18T20:00:02Z But, although his play satirises the intelligentsia, it doesn't sentimentalise the proletariat. Children of the Sun – review 2013-04-17T13:13:58Z It was a phenomenon assisted by Indians overseas, who wanted films that sentimentalised their homeland and elided any of its harsh realities; the box-office receipts were too lucrative to ignore. Grit in the masala: Aarakshan and Bollywood's social conscience 2011-08-25T21:30:01Z 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 2010-10-26T23:25:00Z My view is that Winterbottom has consciously taken to extremes a situation that other types of drama would evasively sentimentalise. Film review: The Killer Inside Me 2010-06-03T21:08:00Z It's the British character sentimentalised, the illusion of decency, that whole nonsense of 'no British boy would do this sort of thing'. When Hari Kunzru met Michael Moorcock 2011-02-04T12:05:01Z It's a sentimentalised and weirdly humourless movie — targeted at the middle-aged at heart — in which the rock scene is celebrated as a world where the descending model of Stonehenge is always the right size. Rock of Ages – review 2012-06-14T20:15:03Z But the hardship is never sentimentalised: in one of the most moving episodes, Woodruff's grandmother, determined not to accept charity, puts on her "best feathers" before taking flight to the workhouse. The Road to Nab End 2010-06-27T21:31:00Z Coogan looks like Raymond, but his sleazy world and his sad private life are sentimentalised and provided with no larger social context to illuminate them. The Look of Love – review 2013-04-27T23:03:01Z Ten Thousand Saints portrays the chaos of the post-nuclear family in the hands of former hippies, but Henderson never judges her characters, and rarely sentimentalises them. Ten Thousand Saints by Eleanor Henderson – review 2012-05-25T21:55:03Z She neither sentimentalises her characters nor moralises about them: she simply presents them as they are. Review 2010-09-20T23:53:00Z Almost everyone sentimentalises their youth, not – contrary to what nostalgia-mining politicians say – because it was objectively better, but because it was a time when you were shielded from cold adult realities. In these strange times, there’s no better place to relax than the 90s | Hadley Freeman 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z James Guthrie's typical To Pastures New translates the airy joie de vivre of Monet into a slightly sentimentalised Scottish farmyard scene, replete with cutesy bonneted maiden. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z That is to say, it is full of splendid scenes of birds and animals and tearfully sentimentalised portraits of human beings. Elizabeth Taylor: how Guardian critics rated her films 2011-03-24T08:30:00Z I don't like plays sentimentalised by melody, or cockneys singing with arms akimbo, or women being charmed by bullies. My Fair Lady; The Dance of Death; Midnight's Pumpkin – review 2012-12-23T00:09:26Z However, African American writers and activists objected to its depiction of passive, compliant slaves, and sentimentalised depiction of the south before the civil war. Gone With the Wind dropped from HBO Max over depiction of slavery 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z The transposition confers a hardness on a piece that is sometimes sentimentalised, and reminds us that the is as much about the abrasions of reality as the grandeur of passion. La Boh?me ? review 2010-10-19T22:00:00Z Goethe sentimentalised it in The Sorrows of Young Werther, "the appearance of the marvellous tree with its wax candles, sweets, and apples would put them in heavenly rapture." Inventing the Christmas Tree by Bernd Brunner – review 2012-12-14T08:00:01Z This novel represents motherhood in quite a stark light.Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. Barbara Kingsolver: 'Motherhood is so sentimentalised in our culture' 2013-05-11T14:00:02Z Of course, the trick to that is that these tough guys become all the more heroic because they are not sentimentalised. The Wages of Fear: No 8 2010-10-19T10:47:00Z Two portraits have been sutured to sentimentalise Stalin's life and closeness to Lenin. The fake photographs that predate Photoshop 2012-08-29T08:44:53Z We must never sentimentalise anyone who seeks such power over us as well-intentioned. Artificial intelligence is a totalitarian’s dream — here’s how to take power back 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z "The movie had the very best talents in Hollywood at that time working together to sentimentalise a history that never was," continued the Oscar-winning screenwriter of 12 Years A Slave. Gone with the Wind removed from HBO Max 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Cuba’s extraordinary ability to soften and sentimentalise swiftly went to work on the utilitarian runaround. Take me to your Lada: Cuba's passion for a little Russian box 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Obviously, I don’t: I wrote a book about 80s movies, for heaven’s sake, so sentimentalising the past is a state with which I’m very comfortable. From Rihanna's eyebrows to slip dresses: should we embrace the 90s revival? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z Only those with the luxury of not having to worry about the practicalities of parenthood can sentimentalise the situation. An abortion at the age of 23 gave me freedom 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Working in watercolour and ink, she was a commercial success, although her work was looked down upon by some critics for "sentimentalising" childhood. More posters from the Underground 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z We want to believe in these absurd moments and sentimentalise the spirit they contain because it gives us hope that protest can work, and that there is strength in simple acts of humanity. Protest photos: the power of one woman against the world 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The way we glibly admire Russian art from the age of Lenin sentimentalises one of the most murderous chapters in human history. We cannot celebrate revolutionary Russian art – it is brutal propaganda 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z Look a bit harder and the great paintings of the nativity story that we sentimentalise at Christmas are full of death and decay. Look closer at nativity paintings – and see visions of apocalypse 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z NW the movie exemplifies what happens when cinema or television get their hands on contemporary literary novels, which typically end up shortened, simplified, possibly sentimentalised and with some characters shed or shrunk. Zadie Smith’s NW: another example of TV's love affair with London 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z "It was a symbol of working class life that he tended to sentimentalise." How George Orwell influenced the 21st Century pub - BBC News 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Maybe he was sentimentalising the image of himself. Rembrandt's lessons for the selfie era: why we must learn to look again 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Manet shows a fallen toreador with apparently casual brushstrokes that refuse to sentimentalise mortality. The top 10 corpses in art 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The unspoken corollary to the sentimentalised innocence of childhood is that adulthood is guilt. Watching hungry kids is an ugly form of entertainment 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z He doesn't sentimentalise an industry that has been vastly diminished since he left it in 1969, two years after the QE2 launched. Britain's last few shipbuilders steer a course through the fiscal storm 2012-06-09T23:06:20Z But now he only sentimentalises over it now and then, if he happens to be a little under the weather. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z I suppose you want me out of the way while you sentimentalise over that milkman. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z He, in his turn, was sentimentalising as though Gladys had gone for a term of years. A Bride from the Bush 2011-12-24T03:08:05.053Z I don't want you to think I am sentimentalising about it. In Accordance with the Evidence 2011-11-06T02:00:12.393Z But it was no time to stand sentimentalising upon architecture. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z Hamlet, for example, if he had studied Yorick's brain instead of sentimentalising over his skull, might have framed his question differently. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z I walk down to Scheveningen, and sentimentalise on the seashore; I find the briny deep in a very good humour, and offer you mental congratulations. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z Alix was glad Daphne had a sense of humour, and didn't rant or sentimentalise. Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z Claudio at once sings a song to Hero, calling her angel of pity, and sentimentalising over her for quite a long time. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z This is a frighteningly funny, oddly touching movie that never flinches from or attempts to sentimentalise the grotesquely embarrassing Dicky or to turn Micky into a liberated spirit. The Fighter ? review 2011-02-06T00:05:32Z I hope you don't call sickly sentimentalising over the stage effects for your funerals preparing for death. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z For he had rather fancied himself as the romance in Thessalie’s life, and, at times, was inclined to sentimentalise a little about her. The Moonlit Way 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 I know few more agreeable occupations than showing a party of Americans round our own great Abbey; and sentimentalising, if you will, in sympathy with them, over England’s Pantheon. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 It is easy to sentimentalise on the subject of "the American spirit"—what it is, may be, or should be. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 English novels, however they may trifle and sentimentalise with the passion of love, are as a rule exceedingly "proper." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) She's sat here sentimentalising and letting the crater get hotter and hotter under her, and unless we look out, Amabel, there isn't going to be any America, one of these days. The Prisoner Pray, tell me, did not our first parents spoon and sentimentalise in the Paradise, before the Serpent appeared? The Book of Khalid Yet such is the frailty of one's nature, that one cannot refrain, after long, long years, from sentimentalising over it. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time "Clive, are you trying to make yourself sentimentalise over that Greensleeve woman?" Athalie The spiritualist also eats rook-pie, but after the repast he will sentimentalise over dead rooks, without losing his belief in an all-merciful Providence. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Why was he not still the baby that she could take on her knees and kiss and sentimentalise over? The Wooden Horse How can you eat, drink, walk, sleep, pray, worship, moralise, sentimentalise, or love, without them? The Book of Khalid In his Renaissance guise, whether projected upon actual history, as in the person of Richard III, or strutting sublimated through Marlowe's blank verse, he spared at any rate to sentimentalise his brutality. From a Cornish Window A New Edition If I described one-half of the little things which I saw in the process of destruction I should be accused of sentimentalising; but the principle of the thing seems clear enough. The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 May started, for she was not often caught sentimentalising. A Venetian June As to the letters—why, think how pleasant it will be for me to sentimentalise over them in my old age! The Wooden Horse A kind friend had invited me to spend a day on the Loddon, not very far from that same Swallowfield of which I have been sentimentalising. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler Mr. Reid is amongst the few novelists who can be sympathetic to boyhood without sentimentalising over it; he has admirably caught its strange mingling of pride and curiosity, of reticence and romance and jealous loyalty. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-07 A vague sentimentalising about sin has taken the place of the more robust view of earlier times, and evil is traced to untoward environment rather than to feebleness of individual will. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics But nothing was further from her mind than soulful sentimentalising over the beauties of nature. Priscilla's Spies He had left his father tearfully sentimentalising about the Queen. Clayhanger For pity’s sake don’t let Tom find us sentimentalising here! Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story 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 She had been too well balanced of brain to allow herself to make a tragedy of it or softly to sentimentalise of loss. Robin Let them sit on soft cushions, and have their dinner regularly, but, for heaven's sake, preserve me from sentimentalising over a pampered old man when the earth has its millions of unfed souls and bodies. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot Mr. Evarts understands, sentimentalises less than most interpreters; seems to know a good deal. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Of course this meant among other things that they hammered it all in literally: but let us not sentimentalise over that. On The Art of Reading When, then, had Florence possessed this liberty, of which all these English writers who sentimentalise over this unique and unfortunate Ferrarese 246traitor speak with so much feeling and awe? Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Of course, my dear fellow, if you wish it," replied I; "but I must go to bed, as I am to be called at four o'clock—so let's have no sentimentalising or sermonising. Japhet, in Search of a Father Warmly and ably did he denounce the pernicious effect of those plays, that take the wanton for a heroine and sentimentalise her into a morbid attractiveness. The Seeker 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. Out To Win The Story of America in France They must not be encouraged to sentimentalise; they must be bidden to decide. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality But we think it may be said that du Maurier hadn't the heart to go on with a class of writing in which his great tendency to sentimentalise would have been out of place. George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians The average man can like a lot of girls enough to spoon and sentimentalise with them. The Common Law That black sling and the damaged hand in it stood for one of those hard facts that no wishing, and no sentimentalising, and no remorse could get over. Lady Connie Conceive the joy of a lover of nature who, leaving the art galleries, wanders out among the trees and wild flowers and birds that the pictures of the galleries have sentimentalised. Best Russian Short Stories She sentimentalised a moment, and then remembered further similarities. Evelyn Innes Every artist is tempted to sentimentalise, or to be cynical—practically the same thing. The Author's Craft Finding him in this pensive attitude in the moonlit garden by the sea, you might guess that he was sentimentalising over his past. True Tilda Amor fati, that's the motto for a man—to love his destiny passionately, and all that is before him; not to droop, or sentimentalise, or submit, but to plunge on, like a 'sea-shouldering whale'! Father Payne The one grave shock of the Boer War has long been explained and sentimentalised away. An Englishman Looks at the World Abridged versions of it, carefully softened and sentimentalised, may be read in any Romish collection of Lives of the Saints. The Saint's Tragedy Their admiration and enthusiasm are reserved for a buried past, and over triumphant rebellion they will sentimentalise for pages, provided it is securely bestowed in some historic age that can trouble them no more. Essays in Rebellion We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalise over Italy and ecstacise over Spain—but England we love. The Shuttle It doesn't do to sentimentalise about evil, and to say that it is hidden good! Father Payne Paul hated his father for sitting sentimentalising over her. Sons and Lovers They supped, they sentimentalised, and when they parted in the Champs Elysées and the moonshine, she gave him from her bosom a little rose-coloured envelope that contained nothing less than a lock of her hair. A Chair on the Boulevard Lady Butler, however, thought she could do more than to sentimentalise with De Neuville's soldiers. Modern Painting They were all horribly real—the things that were shuddered over and sentimentalised about. The Shuttle It seems to me a little like leaving a man unburied in order that we may come and sentimentalise over his bones. Father Payne Well, you see, she means to fix a time and place for a mutual explanation, the relics of your sentimentalising. The Possessed (The Devils) While some erred in exhibiting nothing but the brutalities of war, others erred by sentimentalising war. The Glory of the Trenches A sentimentalist of the weakest type," continued Plank obstinately; "because he sentimentalises over himself. The Fighting Chance "It is much pleasanter," I remarked sententiously "to sentimentalise over the fringes of the United Kingdom from a safe distance, than to live in them." The Lost Naval Papers The Italy indeed that we sentimentalise and romance about was an ardently mercantile country; though I suppose it loved not its ledgers less, but its frescoes and altar-pieces more. Italian Hours This island is, you know, the scene of St. Pierre's beautiful story of Paul and Virginia, over which I suppose most people have sentimentalised at one time or another of their lives. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 1 What right had he to sentimentalise a marriage founded on such base connivances, and how could he have imagined that in so doing he was acting a disinterested part? The Hermit and the Wild Woman Howard would have sentimentalised into two or three verses over these. To-morrow? Young people, Crichton, will be young people, even on an island; now, I suppose there was a certain amount of—shall we say sentimentalising, going on? The Admirable Crichton Bombay acknowledged he had tried to get the girl, for they had been sentimentalising together for several days, and both alike wished to be married. The Discovery of the Source of the Nile We, of this self-conscious, incredulous generation, sentimentalise our children, analyse our children, think we are endowed with a special capacity to sympathise and identify ourselves with children; we play at being children. Shelley; an essay The old boy sentimentalises over the past now and then.” Within the Tides You'll take the consequences, too, I expect, pretty meekly, sniggering a bit, sentimentalising a bit, like—like Cambridge humorists.... The New Machiavelli |
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