单词 | sentimentalize |
例句 | Every town has its celebrated madams, eternal women to be sentimentalized down the years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Sunday morning—led to some sentimentalizing of our Academy days. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ashton’s version, set to Chopin music for piano and orchestra, omits Shpigelsky and other characters; he gives Rakitin no dancing; and I now see that he sentimentalizes the ending. ‘A Month in the Country,’ as Experienced at Age 20 2013-07-24T15:59:17Z In his review for The Times, Frank Rich wrote, “In an extremely tough assignment, Ms. Meara is scrupulous in refusing to conform to the sentimentalized role that her bleeding-heart benefactors wish her to play.” Anne Meara Remembered, Through Reviews and Twitter 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z The habit of sentimentalizing art leads us to distinguish between work undertaken for love or glory, and jobs whose prime motivation is a paycheck. Film: Midwinter Ritual: When Good Actor Meets Bad Movie 2011-02-19T03:43:01Z And sentimentalizing him may be an attempt to turn a dream figure into something more human. ‘American Gigolo’ Review: Can You Take the Escort Out of the ’80s? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z But fealty isn’t always a productive strategy, and while the first film greatly tempers the book’s shocks, it doesn’t sentimentalize the source material, as this one does. ‘Nightmare Alley’ Review: Seeing Is Believing. (Suckers!) 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z What makes Mr. Wayne’s portraits of Jonny, his mother and the tour staff so persuasive — and affecting, in the end — is his refusal to sentimentalize them, combined with his assiduous avoidance of easy stereotypes. Books of The Times: ‘The Love Song of Jonny Valentine,’ by Teddy Wayne 2013-01-28T20:14:16Z I had “Boyhood” picked ever since it opened: almost everyone sentimentalizes his youth, and lots of people revere their parents. My 2015 Oscar Picks 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Lisa's bright enough, but she's an athlete -- a class of human being often sentimentalized in the movies, but rarely explored below the surface. "How Do You Know": A deliciously messy holiday rom-com 2010-12-17T01:30:00Z Unfortunately, the director’s view of the wider world is thin, skewed, and sentimentalized; the family’s conflicts are schematic, and their dealings with authorities in Ricky’s school and elsewhere have no complexity or amplitude. Movies 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z In gentle selections like “Tractor” and “Tailgate Town,” Mr. Smith sentimentalizes sturdy agrarian values. Corn Pone, Rebooted: Country’s New Humor 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Here, finally, is a book that encourages us to imagine a future that is inclusive and humane rather than sentimentalize a past that never truly was. How the ‘Temp’ Economy Became the New Normal 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z Movies that, rather than fetishizing self-pity or sentimentalizing domination, illuminate the cruelty, the comedy and the grace of the human condition. Best Movies of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z Fortunately that is about as close as the show comes to either sentimentalizing or eulogizing Wallace. Theater Review: David Foster Wallace Inspires Piece at Chocolate Factory 2012-03-25T21:57:25Z McCarthy’s sex toy is all about the unclean passages of the body, which he then manages to associate with Christmas, simultaneously our most sentimentalized, commercialized and even politicized holiday. The Parisian Sex Toy Christmas Tree Is the Latest Great Art Scandal 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z As for the piece itself, Mr. Nicola said that loved both the film and the musical adaptation of “Once,” in part because “they are snapshots of contemporary Ireland and not a sentimentalized view of Ireland.” ArtsBeat: Stage Version of ?Once? Will Start Downtown 2011-06-05T14:26:10Z He doesn't sentimentalize that long-ago era any more than "Downton" does. Hugh Bonneville presides on 'Downton Abbey' finale 2013-02-14T14:56:41Z Music tends to sentimentalize coming-of-age movies, even those that are as expertly constructed as “Summer of 42” and “Stand by Me.” ‘Hide Your Smiling Faces’: Boys confront a mysterious death 2014-04-03T20:49:10Z But the producers accentuate the keenness of this loss less than his passionate sentimentalizing of the only part that remains of his favorite bathhouse: the Last Glory Hole, which has somehow gained sentience. "The Kids in the Hall" are old now, and that makes their comedy still very much alright 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z Her naked bodies are never sensationalized and her views of nature rarely sentimentalized. ‘Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest,’ Deep in the Wilds of Video 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s probably a mistake to sentimentalize children’s games. Perspective | Kids used to make up their own games. Now the games play them. 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z You talked about loss during the pandemic, but it isn't sentimentalized. "This is a dead wife movie" that isn't maudlin says "The Secret Art of Human Flight" filmmaker 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The young are naturally credulous, imaginative creatures, and the rest of us sentimentalize these cognitive facts by associating them with innocence and wonder. Movie Review: In ‘Rise of the Guardians,’ Childhood Naïveté Wins 2012-11-20T22:29:12Z Film critics and viewers in the West tend to sentimentalize feel-good movies from the East, delighting in their ostensible universality. Review: ‘Angels Wear White’ Is a Searing Tale of Moral Rot in China 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z We wanted to represent it without either condescending to it or sentimentalizing it.” Just Like the Good Old Days in the Ring 2011-03-20T02:30:05Z The only serious fault of “Month” is that its ending sentimentalizes the bittersweet Turgenev comedy on which it is based. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Presents ‘A Month in the Country’ 2013-05-22T21:48:48Z Ms. Doran does not sentimentalize the difficulty of the search for sustaining human bonds, but “Kin” contains as many moments of transcendent communion and progression as it does of emotional stasis or conflict. | 'Kin': No Connection Is Too Far, or Unlikely 2011-03-22T02:01:24Z “It is too easy to sentimentalize him as the foxy grandpa of American letters, the author of wholesome books for the young,” Mr. Kaplan said in an interview with The New York Times in 1998. Justin Kaplan, Literary Biographer, Dies at 88 2014-03-04T05:34:11Z A refreshingly direct and amusingly tactless interrogator, he neither sentimentalizes nor canonizes his feisty models, who handle their variously truncated limbs with casual practicality. | 'NoBody?s Perfect': The Devastating Legacy of Thalidomide 2010-04-16T00:54:00Z And unlike Mr. Lean, he doesn’t sentimentalize the landscape, which is not to say that “Queen of the Desert” is an ugly film. Review: Gertrude of Arabia in ‘Queen of the Desert,’ 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z Davis is not a person to sentimentalize a body’s expiration, whether goldfish or human. This Memoir About the Contradictions of Grief Plays by Its Own Rules 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Empowerment is one way to look at this story, though only if you sentimentalize its main character. Review: The Big and Minor Stakes of ‘Molly’s Game’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z The sentimentalized American history invites debate, yet the grandmother’s woman-to-woman message of self-actualization is a revealing starting point that typically gets blurred in this myth. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z The children, ghostly and precocious, are not especially childlike, and the series resists sentimentalizing their innocence, giving the sense that we are imbibing some kind of stark fable. “My Brilliant Friend,” Reviewed: A Prada Ad for Working-Class Gloom, but with Shades of Humble Tenderness 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z That’s a startling and somewhat sentimentalized notion, but Ms. Jackson and Mr. Daniels, inerrant in their dryness, pull it off. Review: A Broadway ‘Mockingbird,’ Elegiac and Effective 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Pinkie and Rose are among the most pitiable couples in modern literature, and Mr. Joffe’s chilly film doesn’t sentimentalize their relationship, except for a crucial touch at the end. | 'Brighton Rock': ?Brighton Rock,? Film of Graham Greene Novel - Review 2011-08-25T23:02:20Z His plays about ordinary people were what made his work stand out after decades of sentimentalized theater. Discovering Eugene O’Neill’s San Francisco 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Instead of being offered another image of a sentimentalized Ireland, British patrons were confronted with an artistic rendering of the human misery caused in good part by the socioeconomic policies of their own country. The Artist Who Dared to Paint Ireland’s Great Famine 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z At one point the play comes close to sentimentalizing Emily’s tragedy into an opportunity for growth. | 'A Small Fire': A Sense of Touch, a Sense of Life 2011-01-07T03:30:20Z The orchestration, while alluring and inventive, inflates and sentimentalizes this tender piano piece. Critic’s Notebook: TV Lets the All-Stars Play Together 2013-09-06T21:33:14Z For all that legislators like to sentimentalize family values and hard work, they’ve largely abdicated their responsibility toward families, who are left to navigate a job market that prefers its employees childless and unencumbered. Going for Broke, the Middle Class Goes Broke 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z But those who think of the concerto's simple, gentle style as leave-taking sentimentalize. Herbert Blomstedt leads L.A. Phil's commanding Bruckner performance 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Mr. Smith doesn’t romanticize mental illness or sentimentalize intellectual impairment, and he isn’t telling war stories. Review: ‘Lessons in Temperament,’ a Memoir of Mental Illness 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z “Goodbye to All That” is very evenhanded in assessing its characters’ flaws, and it never sentimentalizes. Paul Schneider and Melanie Lynskey in ‘Goodbye to All That’ 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z A movie that both sentimentalizes Tinseltown and erases one of its darkest tragedies? Analysis | The recipe for an Oscars’ best picture nod includes an infusion of Hollywood love 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z One big help is casting great American actors in all these roles, but it’s also about not sentimentalizing or patronizing the characters — showing them as human beings first, not types. With ‘Three Billboards,’ director Martin McDonagh shows his softer side 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Before the war, it was an era of deceit and looming crisis; after, we see two responses — escapism, into nature and landscape, and attempts to sentimentalize the unresolved problems of the still-young republic. Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z But the production isn't quite pressurized enough, the battle lacks momentum, and the ending is sentimentalized. A kinder, gentler 'Dance of Death' at A Noise Within 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z Ah Tao finds a tentative social life in the home, a place that Ms. Hui doesn’t sentimentalize or make into a cautionary tale. Movie Review: ?A Simple Life,? Directed by Ann Hui 2012-04-12T21:40:33Z The majestic beauty of the novel, deriving from Paton’s lyrical, impressionistic writing, but more powerfully from the clarity and objectivity of his observation, was sentimentalized and sanitized by Anderson in the musical version. | ?Lost in the Stars?: Pursuing a Prodigal Son, Who?s Strayed to the City 2011-02-04T23:55:30Z Sandwiched between the endlessly mythologized Golden Age of ’70s New Hollywood and the now almost equally sentimentalized decade of the American Indies, the ’80s are comparatively bereft of nostalgic movie-fan affection or revisionist critical love. Film: That Unmistakable Streepness 2010-02-20T04:19:00Z He presses witnesses, roams the grounds and sticks close to Marta, the most sympathetic and sentimentalized character in a movie that otherwise exhibits an exuberant skepticism about human nature. ‘Knives Out’ Review: Murder Most Clever 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Nothing if not a rigorous dialectician, Bong refuses to sentimentalize the Kims’ togetherness or their poverty. ‘Parasite’ Review: The Lower Depths Rise With a Vengeance 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z What mainly defines the culture in Chinle, in Powell’s eyes, is a resilience that he’s careful not to sentimentalize. Review | ‘Canyon Dreams’ is more than a book about basketball 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z In truth, the problem with “Holler” wasn’t really the music at all, but the ham-handed, sentimentalized story line concocted to underpin it. Closing of ‘Holler if Ya Hear Me’ Raises Questions 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The wilderness was sentimentalized, as though there were no struggle in existence. Inspired, enchanting puppet theater with a punch: the eco-themed 'Memory Rings' 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z As America’s supplicant, Churchill contrived the special relationship, a sentimentalized international bond based not in shifting national interests but on permanently shared values. Britain and the U.S.: A Forced and Unequal Marriage 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z That a left-wing painter softened and sentimentalized the harder-edged peasant genera of Millet shouldn’t be surprising. Review | It’s easy to see Millet’s influence on other painters. It’s harder to see his genius. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Manohla Dargis of The New York Times praised the film as “pitch-perfect,” adding that it demonstrated “transparent compassion but none of the sentimentalizing that softens and cheapens too many mob stories.” Film: The Godfather?s Ghost Speaks French 2010-02-19T21:50:00Z So the closing montage of flashbacks, to that wonderfully spare on-stage version of “The Scientist,” was more than just a clip reel of Glee greatest hits, or a way of sentimentalizing its characters. Glee Watch: The Mature Thing 2012-10-05T11:11:32Z Wisely, they do not overly sentimentalize the conclusion. Review: ‘Only the Brave’ Is an Inspiring Tale of Firefighter Sacrifice 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, Reyna rarely rises above stereotype, either sentimentalized by Cora or demonized by Troy. A Debut Novelist’s Elegy for Post-Katrina New Orleans 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z How does an anti-nostalgic generation deal with the human reflex to sentimentalize its youth? Riff: ?My So-Called Adulthood? 2011-08-07T04:15:28Z It’s always smart to be wary of sentimentalizing the past, but Mr. Ribot and his crew seem galvanized by their surroundings, to stunning effect. Music Review: Marc Ribot Trio at the Village Vanguard 2012-06-27T20:46:58Z “It manages to take this horrendous history, an almost unimaginable history, and it never sentimentalizes or wraps it up,” Mr. Summers said. New York Premiere for a Long-Suppressed Opera 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z He achieves that generosity without sentimentalizing or sanitizing the underlying reality. Garth Risk Hallberg’s ‘City on Fire’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z The next year, the academy gave best picture to “Green Book,” a mediocre movie that sentimentalizes race relations. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z To sentimentalize or idealize any of these people would not only be a form of condescension. It’s Bong Joon Ho’s Dystopia. We Just Live in It. 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z In a process that Mr. Deol doesn’t sentimentalize, he acquires tolerance on the road and something resembling a soul. | 'Road, Movie': Traveling an Indian Highway to Adventure 2010-05-04T23:43:00Z It’s been a long process of trying to recuperate slavery from the fabulists who wanted to sentimentalize slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z The movie doesn’t sentimentalize Lung Neaw as a heroic primitive living in harmony with nature. | 'Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors': Review: ‘Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors’ 2012-07-15T21:14:48Z Instead, the story shifts and lumbers toward redemption that Earl doesn’t earn and that sentimentalizes a movie that is never especially good and often teasingly offensive but also fitfully entertaining and willfully perverse. ‘The Mule’ Review: Clint Eastwood’s Very Strange Drug Trip 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z One of the beauties of “Arábia” is that while Cristiano is unquestionably the hero of his life, he is never sentimentalized. The 9 New Directors You Need to Watch 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z To his credit, he refuses to sentimentalize the character. Review: 'Birds of North America' locks its characters in a cage of dramatic constraints 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z History is sentimentalized, making the sketchy story lines seem even more contrived. Ranking this year's Tony best musical nominees from worst to best 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z The way Miranda romanticizes Washington Heights in his Tony-winning musical “In the Heights” is nothing compared to the way “New York, New York” sentimentalizes the entire island of Manhattan. 'New York, New York’ the film is not good. The new Broadway musical is worse 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z “In the end, it is a story about humanity. It’s a story about the action of good and the action of good not always having to be sentimentalized.” Guy Ritchie explores the soldier/interpreter dynamic in war 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z “Stonewalling” doesn’t sentimentalize or squeeze tears for Lynn, who, for all her meekness, naivete and often-foolish decisions, is tough enough to have long ago waived her right to self-pity. Review: The quietly devastating 'Stonewalling' weighs the cost of a woman's sacrifice 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z “I told him to destroy the images, not to sentimentalize,” the director says. Why Edward Berger's teen daughter got the last word on 'All Quiet on the Western Front' 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z For a while, that omission feels like the right decision, born of a principled refusal to sentimentalize a killer or ascribe his actions to a tidy, convenient set of motives. Review: Jessica Chastain is good as 'The Good Nurse,' but Eddie Redmayne is bad as the bad nurse 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z But our policy is still based on a sentimentalized, whitewashed past that isn’t helping our future. Every burned town is tragic. But Newsom needs to lead with science, not sentiment 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Shakespeare’s tragic hero, he says, is guilty of presenting a sentimentalized account of his own character; of endeavoring to escape reality — the bodies at his feet — by cheering himself up, even with his last words. Perspective | Exit, Boris Johnson. Sort of — he’s still hogging the stage. 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z But when he learned he’d be inducted into the Hall of Fame early next year, Kenseth couldn’t help but sentimentalize a bit. Competitive Matt Kenseth still chasing wins, makes SRX debut 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z They also sentimentalize Thor in ways that make the inevitable sequel feel, at this stage, like a singularly unappealing prospect. Review: A not-so-mighty 'Thor' sequel is painless but pointless 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z According to Mr. Sussman, they were “wrong often on detail” in the book and had a tendency to “sentimentalize” the Watergate story. Barry Sussman, Washington Post editor who oversaw Watergate reporting, dies at 87 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z He didn’t offer readers the comfort of a way out by editorializing or sentimentalizing or humanizing Vietnamese people, because in the mind of the book’s narrator and his fellow soldiers, the Vietnamese were not human. Opinion | My Young Mind Was Disturbed by a Book. It Changed My Life. 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z He did not intellectualize or sentimentalize the game, or rationalize his love for it. Opinion | Baseball’s return: Why we care 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z But that real-world connection is never exploited or sentimentalized in “The King of Staten Island,” which is both irreverent and unexpectedly tender. Review | SNL’s Pete Davidson delivers a powerful performance in ‘The King of Staten Island’ 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z The book was an instant hit, although Kahn was criticized for sentimentalizing his story. Obit-Roger Kahn 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z More problematically, Austen’s plight is sentimentalized by a score leaning heavily on swelling, sound-alike ballads of introspection — overkill, despite the considerable vocal power of the cast. Review: ‘Austen’s Pride’ at Seattle’s 5th Ave will likely satisfy some ‘Pride and Prejudice’ fans but needs rethinking 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Taibbi’s column illustrates the strange occasional convergence between Trump sycophants and the anti-anti-Trump left, whose oft-justified critiques of liberals sentimentalizing power can devolve into the reactionary assumption that everything liberals support is worth opposing. Donald Trump is a criminal — and impeachment is a murky, amoral struggle. Both these things are true 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z The book’s five-by-seven-inch format meant that the pictures were small, and I found the folksy tone of Hughes’s text distracting: it spilled over the photographs and sentimentalized them. Roy DeCarava’s Poetics of Blackness 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z They don’t sentimentalize long-standing narratives or “this is how it’s always been” thinking. What does the Mariners’ step back look like? For the prized prospects in Arkansas, it’s all about camaraderie 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Crucially, Vic never becomes a conventional hero or savior figure, and his fondness of feeling for his passengers isn’t sentimentalized as it might be in another movie. Review: 'Give Me Liberty' is a brilliant madcap farce on wheels 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z The Obama-Biden origin story has been often told, and often sentimentalized. Obama and Biden’s Relationship Looks Rosy. It Wasn’t Always That Simple. 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z This is something that the many animated Jungle Books of old, especially Disney’s classic 1967 version, actually register better, for all their cuteness and sentimentalizing. Rudyard Kipling in America 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Not many today even try, when culture is weaponized and nature is sentimentalized. Timelessness in Works by Thomas Cole and Brice Marden 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Mortezai neither sentimentalizes nor judges, but rather empathetically reveals a life that we hope is a straight path with forks, but could turn out to be a closed-off circle. Review: Sudabeh Mortezai’s ‘Joy’ hits harsh reality of Africa-to-Europe sex slave trade 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z But Vidal-Naquet never prettifies or sentimentalizes what he shows us; he simply refuses to draw easy boundaries between love and lust, the emotional and the transactional. Review: A sex worker gets his close-up in the jagged, moving French drama ‘Sauvage/Wild’ 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z She respects her character without simplifying or sentimentalizing her. Review: ‘Niceties’ at the Geffen turns a college history paper into revolutionary war 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Almost immediately, some critics were upset with the decision to have Lewis promote a film that has been accused of being an outdated, sentimentalized movie full of racial stereotypes. Oscars 2019: Academy criticized for having civil rights icon John Lewis introduce 'Green Book' 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z He was struggling to bolster support for his faltering domestic agenda and anticipated foreign one; the Four Freedoms were eventually mythologized and sentimentalized in paintings by none other than Norman Rockwell. A Green New Deal can give us the freedoms to allow humanity to flourish 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Johnson and Thomas, whose singing is as richly individualized as their characterizations, don’t need to sentimentalize the women they’re playing. Review: 'Come From Away' national tour keeps singing its ode to the better side of human nature 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Songs many of us have heard our whole lives sentimentalized, usually arranged with enough saccharine to produce insulin shock, are given weight and take on deep meaning. Critic's Notebook: As anti-Semitic hate crimes rise, a German production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' preaches tolerlance - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z “War is wretched beyond description, and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality.” ‘War is wretched beyond description’: Quotes by John McCain 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z Poor, sickly Beth is almost always sentimentalized; Marmee is often a bore. How “Little Women” Got Big 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Without deriding or sentimentalizing the Amish, Castillo illustrates their culture while showing that Amish adherence to traditions and silence on sensitive situations can allow evil to seep in unexpectedly. Author tackles sexual assault in “A Gathering of Secrets” 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z He maintains a reporter’s objectivity that allows him to avoid caricaturing and sentimentalizing a lifestyle so often portrayed as if stuck in the cattle-drive era or worse, a bad spaghetti western. Review | How ranchers in the West survive on their winnings from rodeo riding 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z But without sentimentalizing in the least, Irons’ James allows us to sympathize with a husband and father who’s helpless to undo the damage everyone blames him for. Lesley Manville and Jeremy Irons fill 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' with sorrow and savagery 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z “I want to hear them and I think audiences need to hear them because otherwise we sentimentalize the Holocaust into the triumph of the human spirit,” he said. Yale archives preserve survivors’ accounts of the Holocaust 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z What more capacious retellings of history, with black heroes instead of sentimentalized Confederates, are you willing to endorse? Opinion | Delusions of Kanye 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z Portman and Isaac have an easy, appealing chemistry in the flashbacks to their time together as a couple, especially in a winning bedroom scene where Lena aggressively laughs off Kane’s attempts to sentimentalize their relationship. Annihilation is the most thoughtful science fiction movie since Arrival 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Molly isn’t reduced, simplified or sentimentalized by her reckonings with the past, and the victory she wrests from the closing scenes is nothing if not fully earned. Jessica Chastain pulls a winning hand in Aaron Sorkin's incorrigibly entertaining 'Molly's Game' 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z “You can see her in situations that are very emotional, but you’re playing those instruments, and it saves us from sentimentalizing.” Composer Carter Burwell left his comfort zone for 'Wonderstruck' and felt at home with 'Three Billboards' 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z “Frances was the only woman in my head because I knew she wouldn’t sentimentalize Mildred or patronize the working-class aspects of her character,” McDonagh says. 'Three Billboards'' outraged center was inspired by a two-decades old trip to the U.S. 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The sequence refuses to allow the viewer to substitute a sentimentalized vision of slavery for the reality, and it foregrounds the abolitionist movement. Opinion | The debate over John Kelly and Ken Burns’s ‘The Civil War’ is making us stupider 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z While these pictures can be considered art and each has historical significance, they can also be recognized as sentimentalizing or implicitly endorsing behavior now thought to be reprehensible. Historical art or racist propaganda? How should Hollywood handle problematic classics like 'Gone With the Wind'? 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z By and large, Christian faith in America is a sentimentalized expression of personal piety. U.S. political climate results from ‘theological malpractice,’ D.C. pastor says 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z Rather than sentimentalize the migrants, she walks among them and reports that many are dangerous, lazy, criminal or worse. Opinion | A Muslim woman reporting on violent extremism at great personal risk 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z But the indomitability of her spirit is not sentimentalized. Cannes 2017: A festival grapples with class, but not all movies are created equal 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Oliphant and Wilkie occasionally get tough with their young subject—the coverup of his health problems, his “feckless” behavior with his wife—though they exhibit a lingering Boston tendency to sentimentalize the Kennedys. Trying to Remember J.F.K. 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z And unlike Lean, he doesn’t sentimentalize the landscape, which is not to say that “Queen of the Desert” is an ugly film. ‘Queen of the Desert’ review: Nicole Kidman embodies Gertrude of Arabia 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z That politics are sentimentalized is nothing new, nor is the sensationalism that competition among journals and journalists creates. The election as cliffhanger TV show: It's gone on too long, but we can't stop watching 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Appeasement happens when other nations are treated as sacrificial pawns, and when the adversary is sentimentalized. The danger of Trump the dealmaker 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z That was the sentimentalized vision of a happy, “multigenerational family seated before a Thanksgiving dinner that took days to prepare,” she says. August is a hot month for divorce filings 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z There is a tendency to sentimentalize the lives of the poor, or to infuse poverty with a false note of tragic heroism. Required Reading for Education Reformers 2016-08-13T04:00:00Z “Sociological surveys suggest a fair amount of ambivalence on both sides. We live in a culture that sort of sentimentalizes family, regardless of the reality.” Need a Babysitter? Don't Count On Grandma 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Those who have faced sexual violence are so commonly sentimentalized or stigmatized, cast as uniquely heroic or uniquely broken. The Forced Heroism of the ‘Survivor’ 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z What makes Mr. Church a travesty rather than just an embarrassment is the way it sentimentalizes their relationship. If Tribeca 2016 had a theme, it might be 'adulting is hard' 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Slavery has been sentimentalized for as long it has existed and its narration remains contentious even in the 21st century. Recent controversies spark discussion about slavery books 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Donovan is not sentimentalized or propped up in an unbelievable way. Review: ‘Bridge of Spies’ is an absorbing slow burn 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z But Denault doesn’t sentimentalize the memory of his son, who, Denault said, sold drugs to fuel his addiction even as he worked to help his friends recover. Families write frank obituaries to erase addiction stigma 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Upper-middle-class tourists motored through the countryside and then camped by the side of the road, finding the sentimentalized image of the gypsy or the tramp quite a compelling identity to assume. How Americans Fell in Love With Taking Road Trips 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z The filmmakers don't feel the need to sentimentalize his character or argue his case — to make him into a martyr. HBO puts a new TV 'Hero' in the house 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z It reminds us that leadership is hell, and that sentimentalized views of leadership don’t do us much good in the clutch. The Crucial Difference Between A Good Person And A Good Leader 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z American’s right wing, you see, is terrified of history because it is always sentimentalizing it. Why the GOP hates U.S. history: Inconvenient truths that freak out American conservatives 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z Not sentimentalized like the magazine covers; not made romantic, as Joseph Pennell has made them; but painted in all their horror. Immortal Youth A Study in the Will to Create 2012-04-03T02:00:30.247Z It does not occur so often in Europe that one may not sentimentalize about it without the charge of affectation. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z In fact, it was far too cold for sentimentalizing or tracing measurements. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z The sentimentalizing and moralizing of the middle classes, which from the time of Southerne had threatened to have their say on the stage, found their spokesman in the author of "Clarissa Harlowe." Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z "Oh, he was taken in by it, no doubt; it was something to sentimentalize over and be self-sacrificing about." A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Sometimes there are attempts at moralizing, or criticising, or sentimentalizing—but nothing is ever elicited that, to a third person, can afford the least amusement or improvement, or excite the least interest. The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book 2011-11-13T03:00:12.183Z "There'll be fewer hospitals," her father was saying, with staccato emphasis, "and less vapid sentimentalizing over those who suffer from violation of the plain laws of health." The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z I am uneasy; my predecessor sentimentalized too much about the "educated" Jewesses. Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch Two Stories of Jewish Life 2011-09-15T02:00:12.970Z The pretty music seems to have sentimentalized 225 the handsome youth, and drawn him closer to the performer, who is one of those sweet creatures with whom the artist has made us so familiar. John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z Pauline did her best for me—that is to say, she brought out for me an infinite variety and arrangement of the sentimentalized sex attractions with which she charmed dull care from Henry's brow. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z I didn’t bring you out here to sentimentalize. The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine 2011-06-05T02:00:14.760Z Bedad, I think of going again into my old "theatre of war," and setting up a cabin there and living the few days that remain to me in meditation and sentimentalizing. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z He drew these with an unsparing eye — or would it be fairer to call it a viciousness? — and a remarkably modern refusal to sentimentalize or judge. | Westchester: A Visual Narrative of Old England, Rude, Lewd and Colorful 2011-05-15T01:23:57Z Like Shelley, Hunt had so great an inclination to sentimentalize and idealize friendship that sometimes after the first brief rhapsody of fresh acquaintance he suffered bitter disillusionment. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z You can sentimentalize about your precious Captain Baynell, if you like, on the score of old friendship. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z In proportion as we find in literature abstract thinking, statement of general truth or plain fact, facsimile description or mere sentimentalizing, in that proportion do we find it dull and inartistic. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z It would be a mistake to sentimentalize the previous century’s version of journalistic authority. The Publisher - Henry Luce and His American Century - By Alan Brinkley 2010-04-25T03:33:00Z Without sermonizing or sentimentalizing, Remnick sheds light on the complicated role of race in Obama's rise and victory and, perhaps most relevantly, in the conduct of his presidency. The New Book On Barack Obama 2010-04-02T21:24:00Z "What a pity that I feel much more in mood to fish than to sentimentalize!" Beatrice Boville and Other Stories There was not, however, much time for sentimentalizing over the past, as somewhere before one o'clock his mother and Stella would arrive, and they must be met. Sinister Street, vol. 2 We started in, open-eyed, neither of us sentimentalizing the situation. Cinderella Jane As Gud strolled along trying to forget the past he stumbled over the soul of an old blind ghost who was sitting on a petrified memory and sentimentalizing over her woes. The Book of Gud Its atmosphere is delicately fantastic; remote, you would say, from the sympathies of a matter-of-fact world, particularly as its fantasy is not the highly sentimentalized make-believe of some popular fairy tale. The Book of Susan A Novel Many merry hours did we spend at Woodlands, and I sentimentalized away desperately to Mary Aspeden; but, somehow or other, always had an uncomfortable suspicion that she was laughing at me. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories On the other hand, we must beware of sentimentalizing the Vagabond, and to present him as an ideal figure—as some enthusiasts have done—seems to me a mistake. The Vagabond in Literature I have talked with no sensible person who proposes to sentimentalize over the law-breaker. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York The man wasted no time on sentimentalizing, but pulled as hard as he could for shore. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life Our religions and moralities have been trimmed to flatter us, till they are all emasculate and sentimentalized, and only please and weaken. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse I was sentimentalizing, no doubt, for I have never been able to live in the country. Aliens But there was no time now to sentimentalize. The Wilderness Trail You may say there is nothing in this very commonplace adventure to sentimentalize about, and that when one plucks sentimentally a brand from the burning one should pick out a more valuable one. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 The tendency to sentimentalize nature has, in our time, largely taken the place of the old tendency to demonize and spiritize it. Ways of Nature And under these December skies, As bland as May’s in other climes, I move, and muse my idle rhymes And subtly sentimentalize. Poems Now this letter is not to express regrets, or to sentimentalize. The Twins of Suffering Creek He did not sentimentalize about his old teacher, but he set aside half an hour in which to look in on him and see what could be done for him. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 She was too much a child of the prairie to morbidly sentimentalize over the matter. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana Still, if you are in earnest, and not merely sentimentalizing, you will take your courage in your hands and come with me.” The First Violin A Novel She sentimentalized, flirted, romped, laughed, dressed in a picturesque manner, and "was every thing by turns, but nothing long," evidently bent upon bringing to her feet the three gentlemen. Graham's Magazine Vol. XXXII No. 2. February 1848 The husband and wife were out on their verandah, enjoying the calm beauty of the night, and sentimentalizing, as newly-married couples will. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand I keep remembering what Lois said about not sentimentalizing a situation. The Prairie Child To mourn over the miseries of others, the poverty of the poor, their hardships in jails, prisons, asylums, the horrors of war, cruelty, and brutality in every form, all this would be mere sentimentalizing. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The redemption of the world was the world's greatest miracle; but it did not offer mankind salvation in return for a given measure of psalm-singing, sentimentalizing, and prayerful prostrations. The Message As Plato thought, man elevates himself by elevating and sentimentalizing his affections. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) But she had other things to do than sentimentalize. The Bill-Toppers “Well, I can’t see that we get much ahead by trying to sentimentalize the situation,” he said, with a gesture that seemed one of frustration. The Prairie Child And I don't sentimentalize on the evils of society. Chimney-Pot Papers Let us have no weak sentimentalizing, but on the other hand—is anything too good to believe as to what God might do for poor frightened souls at such a dread crisis of being? The Gospel of the Hereafter All poetry and most literature is given up to this sentimentalizing or refining process. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) "The child is father of the man," saith the great poet of dry sentimentalizing. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 She warned me, in her artless soprano, that there wasn’t much good in sentimentalizing the situation. The Prairie Child Miss Watts never tried to sentimentalize their relationship. The Cricket Yet employers tell labor managers they must not sentimentalize. Working With the Working Woman The world pays a heavy price for having its imagination sentimentalized. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) The men of Endbury spent as little time in sentimentalizing over other men’s wives as they did over their own. The Squirrel-Cage K——r wasted, as I considered, much time in sentimentalizing over their probable fate, for I found that he loitered behind by every basin which contained a larger specimen than usual. Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. "And you're gladder to get back to it than you'd confess, for shame of sentimentalizing," said the other shrewdly, having marked the note of deep content in that "it's England." Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage In England all Nature is robed in vivid green, the air is balmy; and all those beauties abound which usually set poets rhapsodizing, and young men sentimentalizing, and young girls tantalizing. The Lady of the Ice A Novel Flint was in no mood to sentimentalize over sunsets. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes They placed them in a suite of rooms which they rent to curiosity-hunting Americans who sentimentalize over history at twenty-five dollars a day. The Masques of Ottawa I am not going to sentimentalize over my copy, for how much of it have I read? A Window in Thrums He was not one, this young man who was out for a bit of a lark, to sentimentalize about antiquity or the charm of the unspoiled. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story "I am sentimentalizing," he answered abruptly, suddenly coming to himself. The Seventh Noon We ask where He gets His wondrous wisdom, this young carpenter, how He learned to speak 'as man never spoke?' and M. Renan sentimentalizes. Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy It's very well for you, who look at it professionally, and for those who go and fight; but it's a miserable business for those who stay at home, and do the thinking and the sentimentalizing. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 We've come from Port Mary, where Basil sentimentalized over the stone Queen Mary stood on to get into her ship. The Heather-Moon Miss Ferber has not sentimentalized her substance as she does most often, but has let it remain at its true valuation. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Nevertheless, she adopted easily this sentimentalized view of her marriage. One Woman's Life And it was this romantic folly of his which vexed him now; not the fact that a simple child over whose fate he had sentimentalized, was a rich and popular stage-dancer. The Golden Silence My moments are numbered; and if I would expose him with my dying sigh, I must not sentimentalize over my own decay. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke Painting was sentimentalized and "moralized" under their tuition; architecture adopted the baroque style, gaudy and insincere. The Age of the Reformation Some of the women who come to the shop sentimentalize a lot. The Tin Soldier The pianoforte can sentimentalize like the flute, make a martial proclamation like the trumpet, intone a prayer like the churchly trombone. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art There had been other doctors whose minds had been on arms and legs—amputated; on wounds and shell shock—And there had been a few who had sentimentalized. The Gay Cockade His sentimentalized egotism and bland sensuality pass belief. Preaching and Paganism How lightly he had prized that one possession until it became a thing denied, Kenny, sentimentalizing his need, forgot. Kenny Eleanor, who only went to Medfield when their wedding anniversary came round, and she dragged him out to sit by the river and sentimentalize! The Vehement Flame She has not sentimentalized over her work; she has not made it smack of charity. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers His climaxes are never strained; nothing is ever idealized, sentimentalized, etherealized; no part of the truth is left out, no part is exaggerated. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Or they are utilitarian, giving a sentimentalized or frankly shrewd doctrine of expediencies, the appeal to an exaggerated self-respect, enlightened self-interest, social responsibility. Preaching and Paganism They did not moralize, or philosophize, or sentimentalize; were never subtle, intellectual, or abstract. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century She sighed; to sentimentalize and receive no response in kind, is like sitting down on a chair which isn't there. The Vehement Flame But since he suspected himself of a tendency to idealize these qualities, even to sentimentalize upon them, he generally kept a cautious distance off. The Real Adventure Now, I don't see why I should have been sentimentalizing over myself like that. The Tinder-Box Of course he sentimentalized the story—it was a trick he was always given to, especially during these, his younger, years—and, of course, he made a woman sacrifice herself for a man. Wagner But no—his metaphors were very bad; he was sentimentalizing, rhetorizing, a thing that he particularly abhorred. Queed I have had enough of dawdling and sentimentalizing. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories That reason and love may coexist, that the beauty of life is not dependent on a sentimentalized ignorance are cardinal in my code of beliefs. The Nervous Housewife But his north-country caution protected him from any sentimentalizing, however innocent. The Mating of Lydia Now, my dear Alice, don't let's have any more of this sentimentalizing. Gordon Keith But sentimentalizing was not the business of the hour, and I intimated as much to him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 There is no sentimentalizing, no breaking down of class distinctions; the good-for-nothing marries his lady-love, but she is of his own rank. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English Thanksgiving, Christmas,—the good cheer of gluttony is sentimentalized and hallowed into poetry and music. The Nervous Housewife The influence of Victoria sentimentalized the whole artistic movement in England, made it bourgeois, and flavored it with mint sauce. Murder in Any Degree She wrote good English, of course, and would never sentimentalize, but went directly at the pith of the matter; and, if she had few thoughts on a subject, she made but few words. The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air The banished Missourians have, however, as yet found no Longfellow to sentimentalize over them or to idealize, in a story of Evangeline, their misfortunes and their character. The American Indian as Participant in the Civil War The Lodge, though involved in plot and reaching an empty conclusion, yet appealed very strongly to the Germans of 1793 by its descriptions of nature and its sentimentalized emotion. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes And these doctored stories, artfully sentimentalized at one end and expurgated at the other, are advanced as proofs that a savage Indian's love is just as refined as that of a civilized Christian! Primitive Love and Love-Stories If Grizel saw him in this mood, her reproachful look implied that he was sentimentalizing again. Tommy and Grizel How surprised the school-children looked, to be sure, when the Doctor of Divinity from the city tried to sentimentalize, in addressing them, about "the bobolink in the woods"! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Sickly I pondered how the lover Wrongs the unanswering tomb, And sentimentalizes over What earned a better doom. The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke April 1st.—I know Bill Carstairs hates me because I was so disagreeable, but I hate to be sentimentalized over sometimes. The Beautiful and Damned Some of the earlier translators, notably Rückert, permitted themselves unwarranted poetic licenses, modernizing and sentimentalizing the text, somewhat as Professor Ebers did the thoughts and feelings of the ancient Egyptians. Primitive Love and Love-Stories From a letter to Goethe, written June 18, it is clear that he was then thinking especially of the danger of sentimentalizing his heroine. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller The Medea of Apollonius has been softened and sentimentalized by the Roman poet. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal I am bound to say it might have been made much more truly impressive, if there had been less French, Rousseau-like sentimentalizing and wire-drawing; and rather more healthful carelessness of effect. Villette Men have sentimentalized about them and legislated upon them. Woman and the New Race The prose writings of Carrer are essays on Aesthetics and morals, and sentimentalized history. Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions And if we grant a raison d'être to the sentimentalized historical drama, no fault can reasonably be found with lyrical passages like that at the end of the third act of 'The Piccolomini'. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Over this stern prospect the tourist can no longer sentimentalize, for the whole of this part of Skien was burned down in 1886, to the poet's unbridled satisfaction. Henrik Ibsen I am not sentimentalizing about stolid, brazen note-taking, such as that with which the gentlemen of the Ateneo debase their books, because that merely indicates barbarous lack of culture and an obtuseness which is Kabyline. Youth and Egolatry Mrs. Vervain sentimentalized their departure a little, but her daughter made no comment on the scene they were leaving. A Foregone Conclusion It was clear that she did not sentimentalize Hicks's case; and Staniford had some doubt as to the value she set upon what he had done, even now she had recognized it. The Lady of the Aroostook So he chose to sentimentalize history, at the expense of detracting somewhat from its dignity, rather than to make frigid plays which no one would care to see or to read. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Doctor Howe does not sentimentalize over the ruins of Sparta or Plato's Academy, but he describes Greece as he found it, and its inhabitants as he knew them. Cambridge Sketches I have no right to be sentimentalizing you. Suburban Sketches We rarely sentimentalized consciously, and still more seldom openly, about the present state of Venice as contrasted with her past glory. Venetian Life It is no good trying to sentimentalize the issue away. Mankind in the Making He could not sentimentalize the tones, nor falsify the values. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days It's only the gushing and spooning and sentimentalizing that I can't endure. Only an Incident Why does he just fold his arms and sentimentalize? Plays People who will sentimentalize over the pigeons of St. Mark's, may like to know that they have been settled in the city ever since 877. Venetian Life It's not rotten idealizing and sentimentalizing that dies away as soon as facts are seen as such. Snake and Sword A Novel It was a great story, but the girls, shouting from the water's edge, reminded him that he was out to pull an oar, and not to sentimentalize. Hyacinth In Sinclair Lewis' "Main Street," the best novel ever made about America as a nation of villagers, the heroine, Carol Kennicott, has this to say to someone sentimentalizing about maternity. The Glands Regulating Personality And it is no good for us to sentimentalize on the subject. The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife You don't know how coming away from New England has sentimentalized us all! Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe When a critic, after a course in American novels and magazines, declares that life, as it appears on the printed page here, is fundamentally sentimentalized, he goes much deeper than "mushiness" with his charge. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism However, there are a few noble nocturnes; and methods of performance may have much to answer for the sentimentalizing of some others. Chopin : the Man and His Music A good amount of exercise and fresh air helps one out of sentimentalizing. As a Matter of Course He was not one to sentimentalize, but the sight of the defiant flag, the most beautiful in all the world, stirred him in every fiber. The Guns of Bull Run A Story of the Civil War's Eve With more of truth in them than she expected; and yet what business have I sentimentalizing. For the Term of His Natural Life His sentiment has frequently to be sentimentalized before he will pay for it. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism But he still sentimentalizes to Titus and wishes him in Paris. Chopin : the Man and His Music We help others and ourselves out of it more rapidly by not mentioning the sentimentalizing habit, but by taking some immediate means towards rest, fresh air, vigorous exercise, and better nourishment. As a Matter of Course What would the Chief say if he could see his prize young man, his white-headed boy, sitting sentimentalizing by the fire over a woman who was, by her own confession, practically an accredited German agent? Okewood of the Secret Service I did not sentimentalize about "the receding shores of my country;" I hardly looked at them, indeed. Letters from England This sentimentalizing of reality is far more dangerous than the romantic sentimentalizing of the "squashy" variety. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism He probably sentimentalizes, like most men when they are well rid of a burden. The Egoist An immense amount of time, thought, and nervous force is wasted in sentimentalizing about "being good." As a Matter of Course Only the sentimentalized believe it can disappear entirely, only the brutal rejoice in its use. The Foundations of Personality This island is, you know, the scene of Saint Pierre's beautiful story of Paul and Virginia, over which I suppose most people have sentimentalized at one time or another of their lives. Autobiography and Selected Essays The little writers—hacks who sentimentalize to the latest order, and display their plot novelties like bargains on an advertising page—are just as traditional. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism And it is clear that unless oneself is to be lost, one must be content to leave alone all those people that one can reach only by sentimentalizing. The Research Magnificent There is not even the appearance of strength in sentimentalizing. As a Matter of Course He had been moaning and sentimentalizing but then suddenly he showed me his fangs. The Arrow of Gold A Story Between Two Notes What wholesome love there is lives in spite of the sentimentalizing, and fortunately is sometimes strong enough on one side or the other to crowd it out and finally exterminate it. As a Matter of Course Nevertheless, I very much prefer the sentimentalized animal story to the sentimentalized man story. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism To use inferiors in love one must needs talk down to them, interpret oneself in their insufficient phrases, pretend, sentimentalize. The Research Magnificent Besides the sentimentalizing about ourselves in our desire to live a better life, there is the same morbid practice in our love for others; and this is quite as weakening. As a Matter of Course Many who would express horror at these public forms of sentimentalizing do not hesitate to indulge in it privately to any extent. As a Matter of Course If one has a spark of real desire for better ways of living, sentimentalizing about it is a sure extinguisher if practised for any length of time. As a Matter of Course |
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