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These sentiments have now led to a sentimentalization of America.

Austin saw her position as one of observation, not sentimentalization.

Another side effect is a sentimentalization of the past.

Like the boy soldier salute, the sentimentalization of the military is juvenile.

The sentimentalization, if there is such a thing, of the role of the artist in Western culture.

He looks at facts without sentimentalization or sectarian agenda.

At least surrounded, if not more or less tainted, by the sentimentalization and commercialization of everything "Christmassy"?

"So it's not just the sentimentalization of motherhood that's at play here, it is the privatization of it."

Lynn Cohen in the title role is the chief asset in a play that sacrifices wistfulness for sentimentalization.

Cynthia Ozick deplores the corruption and sentimentalization of Anne Frank's diary.

Other pans dwell on the film's sentimentalization of Tibet and its skirting of its protagonist's Nazism.

The flip side of this demonization of Mrs. Yates is the American sentimentalization of motherhood.

Hebard presents a stout-hearted woman in a biography that is "undeniably long on romance and short on hard evidence, suffering from a sentimentalization of Indian culture".

The problem with "Sunday," which won the Grand Jury Prize at this year's Sundance Film Festival, is its sentimentalization of this notion.

Anderson, Digby and Mullen, Peter (eds), Faking it: Sentimentalization of Modern Society, Penguin Books, 1998.

To the Editor: Anne Taylor Fleming makes an unpopular but relevant point in "Maternal Madness" (Week in Review, March 17) about the "sentimentalization of motherhood" in our society.

He has deplored the advances of science and technology unbound by ethics, and he has also spoken out against the "sentimentalization" of belief, modern society's yearning for quick mystical fixes like horoscopes or parapsychology.

The attention these three have received is well deserved - and it points to a remarkable flowering, in Hollywood and beyond, of very young acting talent, a kind of children's crusade against the exploitation and sentimentalization of youth.

One must also take care that the sentimentalization of a 'deeply meaningful' therapeutic relationship does not distract us from a clear view of the real causes of our clients' distress outside the consulting room - nor indeed of our own.

With the recent disappearance of the last remnants of primitive culture, distance has made the heart grow fonder and the mind mushier, and the sentimentalization of the savage has proceeded apace, even in the face of hard contradictory evidence.

A relentless sentimentalization of Plains Indian culture, Mr. Costner's film tapped into the New Age sensibility by turning the Sioux with whom Mr. Costner's cavalry officer bonds into environmentally conscious peaceniks.

To the Editor: Frank Rich is right in "Heaven's Gate-gate" (column, April 17) to bemoan "the abdication of all critical distinctions" between religions and cults, the sentimentalization of Heaven's Gate and the transmutation by the media of this tragedy into farce.

"This new tourism," writes Ms. Brown, "was driven by a profound sentimentalization of New England, a new vision of the region expressed in extensive literature . . . and in architectural and landscape reforms that began to transform the appearance of many towns and villages."

Diana’s rolling eyes, Tony’s trembling lips and Cherie’s swollen eyes were the most obvious signs of a widespread sentimentalisation of culture.

For most people imitation of appearance, or topographic realism, is what art is, that or a sentimentalisation of that.

The tragic outcome is not, therefore, a reason for the further sentimentalisation of our law, by treating a certain class of victim, or alleged victim, differently from all others.

As early as 1998 philosopher Anthony O'Hear identified the mourning as a defining point in the "sentimentalisation of Britain", a media-fuelled phenomenon where image and reality become blurred.

This may reflect the contemporary sentimentalisation of the Holocaust The commentary on the opposite persplex suggests that the resistance referred to in the GDR memorial was in fact Jewish resistance.

Its sentimentalisation of Mexican colonial life gave the region a unique cultural identity and its publication coincided with the arrival of railroad lines to the region, bringing in countless tourists who wanted to see for themselves the locations in the novel.

But at the same time there has also been a certain element of sentimentalisation, generalising tragedy from individual cases.

He is responsible for the sentimentalisation of politics - the Diana worship and all that. '