sentimentalize
- v look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment
Don't sentimentalize the past events - v make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities
Too much poetry sentimentalizes the mind
These experiences have sentimentalized her - v act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression
- Anyone who would sentimentalize adolescence either is a fraud or has a bad memory.
- Yet caught between love and despair, Greenfeld re uses to sentimentalize his or his wife's deflected lives.
- He doesn't sentimentalize it or melodramatize it.