Even as he condemns the sentimentalisation of the infamous hoodlums, he understands it. |
All part of the sentimentalisation of animals, I'm afraid, by people whose hearts overrule their heads. |
Now, it seems, this babyish sentimentalisation of nature is regarded as a social attribute. |
I'm not sure whether it was pre or post-Victorian, but I'd agree that a sentimentalisation of children and childhood took place. |