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Mr. Simon is a master at shameless over sentimentalizing to win an audience's favor.

No sentimentalizing over mistakes.

At Thursday's early show, she prefaced a tough, swinging rendition of "Hey, There," with amusing remarks that seemed to preclude sentimentalizing.

Frith Banbury was to direct it, but as Banbury told me, he himself "loathed" the play, with its "most ghastly sentimentalizing of old age."

She felt no grief, had embarked upon no sentimentalizing, didn't struggle to produce tears, wasn't even the slightest bit sad, exactly; but she didn't feel normal either.

One significant virtue of D'Souza's storytelling rests in his ability to present Jack's experiences of African life with a vividness that reveals the continent's allure without sentimentalizing its exoticism.

Director John Singleton ( Boyz N the Hood ) is accused of sentimentalizing his subject and resorting to action-film banalities--"a sorry assortment of dramatic and visual clichés that were retired from service, or should have been, decades ago," says the Wall Street Journal 's Morgenstern.