The Refusal (1721) might be called a purified Restoration comedy, without any positive bearing on the sentimentalizing tendency except that it shows the tendency to make the drama more moral.
The people we met coming out of this pavilion were lovers, and they had been here sentimentalizing on this superb cataract, as you call it, with which my heroic Patch is not worthy to be named.
I dare say any respectable resident would laugh at us sentimentalizingover his city.
Now, I don't see why I should have been sentimentalizing over myself like that.
This sentimentalizing of reality is far more dangerous than the romantic sentimentalizing of the "squashy" variety.
If one could succeed in de-sentimentalizing society, one would take from a few the chief pleasure of living, but it is far from certain that the material welfare of the majority would not be proportionately increased.
All poetry and most literature is given up to this sentimentalizing or refining process.
As Plato thought, man elevates himself by elevating and sentimentalizing his affections.
We help others and ourselves out of it more rapidly by not mentioning the sentimentalizing habit, but by taking some immediate means towards rest, fresh air, vigorous exercise, and better nourishment.
If one has a spark of real desire for better ways of living, sentimentalizing about it is a sure extinguisher if practised for any length of time.
Besides the sentimentalizing about ourselves in our desire to live a better life, there is the same morbid practice in our love for others; and this is quite as weakening.
Many who would express horror at these public forms ofsentimentalizing do not hesitate to indulge in it privately to any extent.
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