| In his paintings of newsboys, bootblacks, and street urchins, John George Brown sentimentalized urban poverty, while Blythe depicted children smoking, stealing, and fighting. |
| There is nothing sentimentalized or homogenized about this story or the characters. |
| With his compatriot Hubert Robert, he catered to a new taste for idealized, somewhat sentimentalized landscapes. |
| In an age in which young girls were sentimentalized as emblems of purity and beauty, Carroll regarded little girls with great adoration, almost worship. |
| Kate's predicament is never sentimentalized, and the tough decisions she faces aren't simplified to bring about a tidy little ending. |
| In most films, these matters are sentimentalized or skirted altogether. |
