31. It was often sentimentalized , time and distance blurring the hard edges of the abandoned reality. 32. I don't sentimentalize them. 33. But what he doesn't do is sentimentalize any of this, a smart impulse. 34. "Children Underground " goes out of its way not to sentimentalize its subjects. 35. Our grief and anger have been sentimentalized and stripped of a larger historical and moral purpose. 36. He does not need a lot of inflection, which would diminish and sentimentalize the effect. 37. Five years later, he sentimentalized the loss of the familiar Abbaye-aux-Bois. 38. What makes the movie so effective is that it doesn't sentimentalize or airbrush Larry Flynt. 39. Grown-ups tend to sentimentalize childhood or, conversely, burden youthful characters with adult attitudes. 40. For their own part, Kushner and Margulies seem to question the past rather than sentimentalize it.
