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Yet what makes this a fine play is that Lamont Stewart neither sentimentalises Maggie nor treats working-class life as unrelievedly grim.

Men Should Weep - review Michael Billington 2010

Meadows never sentimentalises or aggrandises these people.

GreenCine Daily: This Is England. In England. 2007

Mr. EVARTS understands, sentimentalises less than most interpreters; seems to know a good deal.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Various

Instead of idealising life, if we may so express ourselves, it sentimentalises it.

An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times Thomas Hill Green

In many other particulars he enfeebles, dandifies, and sentimentalises Dante's fierce, abrupt tragedy; holding the reader by the button while he prattles in his garrulous way of Paulo's "taste" --

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

Mr. Davitt, I dare say, when he sentimentalises in the House of Commons about his affection for the

A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 Albert Venn Dicey 1878

But the worst fault of all in this tedious and misguided production is that Nunn sentimentalises the play.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

In explaining his calls for renewed focus on individual and community rights, Cornall sentimentalises 20th century Australia in a manner reminiscent of John Howard's longing for the 1950s:

newmatilda.com - Comments 2009

In explaining his calls for renewed focus on individual and community rights, Cornall sentimentalises 20th century Australia in a manner reminiscent of John Howard's longing for the 1950s:

newmatilda.com - Comments 2009

Meadows never sentimentalises or aggrandises these people.

GreenCine Daily 2009