sentimentalisation


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Noun 1. sentimentalisation - the act of indulging in sentiment
idealization, glorification, idealisation - a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
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Even as he condemns the sentimentalisation of the infamous hoodlums, he understands it.
Doors to a career in acting 'are almost shut on poor'
The manner in which it is employed within the South African political landscape more often than not reflects such a sentimentalisation. It would be a mistake, however, to ascribe this to being but a reflection of the moralising phraseology of our politicians, bureaucrats, and others on the public stage.
Praeg, Leonhard, A Report on Ubuntu
All part of the sentimentalisation of animals, I'm afraid, by people whose hearts overrule their heads.
'Cuddly' cubs are just wild animals
(But as I suggest above, the textual evidence from plot is ambiguous in the scene.) Perhaps the sentimentalisation of Hamlet's character (which the author rightly dwells on) is the cause for so many unlikely post-renaissance interpretations of this celebrated soliloquy.
James Hirsh. Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies
The favourable conditions for this process, sometimes referred to as the sentimentalisation of the family, were created by the transformation of the economic functions of the family and the separation of the spheres for living and working for ever widening social groups.
Social Integration in 20th century Europe: Evidences from Hungarian family development
The critique by the Social Affairs Unit think tank, "Faking It: The Sentimentalisation of Modern Society", is an accurate portrayal of a nation in decline.
Nothing to celebrate in a shameless society; England is a nation in terminal decline, says Graham Findlay
Professor Anthony O'Hear's was just one chapter in a timely, shrewdly titled book, Faking It - The Sentimentalisation of Modern Society.
NATION BLINDED BY CROCODILE TEARS

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