“And to say that Simpson doesn't sentimentalize this role would be a massive understatement.”

“And because he wants, intermittently, to sentimentalize their dilemmas, he has a hard time generating genuinely potent satire.”

“Capes looked at one and not over one, spoke to one, treated one as a visible concrete fact.... Anyhow, he did not sentimentalize her.”

“Another criticism is that they sentimentalise the past or make it antiquarian by abnegating the context and concentrating on the artefacts.”

“But this steaming pie of nostalgia, written by John Godber, does not sentimentalise the English holiday, now fading in the photo albums.”

“But rather than over sentimentalise or portray them as being completely in control you get a complete sense of panic and chaos.”

“Reading his book over a century later, in an age that has sentimentalised illness and therapy, his remarks sound disconcertingly moderate.”

“Historical fiction runs the risk of degenerating into joining the dots of known facts with overdrawn, sentimentalised characters.”

“But, although it's undeniably visceral, in the end it's a sharp-witted study of sentimentalised violence and the use of language as a form of moral camouflage.”

“There is nothing sentimentalized or homogenized about this story or the characters.”

“Kate's predicament is never sentimentalized, and the tough decisions she faces aren't simplified to bring about a tidy little ending.”

“In his paintings of newsboys, bootblacks, and street urchins, John George Brown sentimentalized urban poverty, while Blythe depicted children smoking, stealing, and fighting.”

“To her credit, Leslie treats them seriously, without sentimentalizing the characters or their experiences.”

“At the same time, seeing them in a humorous light helps me to avoid sentimentalizing them.”

“It warns us against sentimentalizing the deaths of innocents while also reminding us of the catalytic power of empathy.”