It was part of the popular American inclination to sentimentalize Indians. The best known example of the eastern American romanticization of Indian culture in the antebellum era was Henry ...

One secret of an uplifting movie is not to downplay or sentimentalize the characters' struggles. Danny Boyle's quick-paced drama, based on the novel Q&A by Vikas Swarup and starring Dev Patel and ...

Instead, this is a book about the life we sentimentalize when we’re (theoretically) drinking the best wine of our life. There are some well-written, very evocative essays about wine related ...

The Holdovers’ most pandering scenes sentimentalize Mary’s anger — unlike Hunham’s snideness and hyperhidrosis or Angus’s ...

The problem is that when they focus on caring, they often sentimentalize and trivialize the complex skills they must acquire through education and experience. They often fail to explain that ...

We have done our best not to sentimentalize, glorify or aestheticize the war, but instead have tried simply to tell the stories of those who did the fighting -- and of their families. In so doing ...

Polanski doesn’t sentimentalize the Jews, either. The Jewish police employed by the Germans in the ghetto are shown to be almost as ruthless as their overseers, and some of the underground ...

Some of the others are inaccurate, based on hearsay, some sentimentalize the flood, some even trivialize it, or find some way to connect it to the man-woman theme, or sexual double entendre ...

But Joyce does not, like Thomas Mann, sentimentalize his artists by assuming their exclusion from a comfortable bourgeois world. Joyce knows his petty bourgeoisie too well for that; he knows that ...

Guggenheim told him that when Fox agreed to do the doc, the “Family Ties” star insisted “no violins” – apparently concerned that a string section might sentimentalize scenes of Fox’s ...

Director Niki Caro told the Daily she courted McDormand for the role of Glory, because she needed someone who wouldn't sentimentalize the character. In the midst of Josie's equal rights quest, Glory ...

Hackman isn’t the type of actor to sentimentalize a character like Harry, but he suggests vulnerability the most when he’s putting others at an arm’s distance. His expertise has turned him ...