glamorize
Frequently Asked Questions
- Some war films show the agony of war, while others glamorize it.
- I try not to glamorize the past when I write historical fiction.
- She accused the media of glamorizing the life of a pop star.
Example Sentences
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Glamorous as the exiles are, Kentridge does not glamorize them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2025
Michael Mann’s Ferrari may glamorize speed, but Mann isn’t shy about showing its consequences.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2023
But unlike DIS — who do so without discernible politics and tend to glamorize a sense of existential resignation — Kline is stridently and sincerely polemical.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2023
“Fourth Avenue Shallower” adds $700 million to past estimates, not counting any lid, nor renovations to glamorize Union Station and South Jackson Street.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 20, 2023
“I suppose I did glamorize it a bit,” he admitted.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
Booth glamorizes the hustle, but Lincoln lived the dangers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
The book is also a love letter to activism, which isn’t to say it glamorizes it.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 10, 2022
Ms. McKinney compared its appeal to that of Van Life — a cultural movement that glamorizes living in a small space.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2021
Jones said she’s aware that some critics of the franchise believe the series glamorizes teen pregnancy to young viewers.
From Fox News ● Oct. 26, 2019
The cinematography in “The Miniaturist” imitates a Vermeer masterpiece's interplay between light and shadow, engulfing the action in mesmerizing glow that both augments and glamorizes the weight of what is essentially Petronella’s imprisonment.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2018
"It's very glamorized, and it feels very professional and fun," said Grace Stark, a world 100m bronze medallist in Tokyo last month.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
Lestat’s figment doubles as his love’s guilty conscience and a glamorized memory.
From Salon ● May 26, 2024
A federal judge struck down the Food and Drug Administration’s authority to regulate premium, hand-rolled cigars on Wednesday, offering relief to makers of a luxury product glamorized in films and celebrations.
From New York Times ● Aug. 10, 2023
Beyond that, most people present a glamorized version of their lives online, and instead of listening, empathizing and engaging in conversations, people leap to confrontations, trying to publicly obliterate anyone who disagrees with them.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2022
Now that he had gone, these things, so long subdued by his presence, were glamorized in his wake.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
Bayona’s film seeks to honor the story and strays away from glamorizing or sensationalizing the horrors the passengers and crew members endured.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
In another, a man rants about tech being “over-glamorized” while acknowledging his own contributions to the glamorizing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
“It wasn’t about glamorizing or promoting anything except telling her story that then could be a vehicle for others to have these very difficult conversations.”
From Washington Times ● Dec. 11, 2022
That show became a hit for what many would consider the wrong reasons, in that it is accused of glamorizing its repugnant main subject.
From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2022
Now, I regularly see stories glamorizing Wonder Valley and the eclectic lifestyle offered here.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
