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Sentimentalize   Listen
verb
Sentimentalize  v. i.  To think or act in a sentimental manner, or like a sentimentalist; to affect exquisite sensibility.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sentimentalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... American ballad of "Jesse James." But we do not know what "Billy Gashade" it was who first made rhymes about Robin Hood or Johnny Armstrong, or just how much help he had from the crowd in composing them. In any case, the method of such ballads is purely objective. They do not moralize or sentimentalize. There is little description, aside from the use of set, conventional phrases. They do not "motivate" the story carefully, or move logically from event to event. Rather do they "flash the story at you" by ...
— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry



Words linked to "Sentimentalize" :   alter, sentimentize, do, sentimentise, misrepresent, modify, act



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