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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Michael Mann’s Ferrari may glamorize speed, but Mann isn’t shy about showing its consequences.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2023
We glamorize overworking and we privilege isolation, as if eating food and meeting up with friends or coworkers are just weekends and nights things.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2023
We expect that they have neatly stored and codified all of these documents so that we don’t have to; we can simply glamorize that code and conflate it with cinematic gesturing.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 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
“I suppose I did glamorize it a bit,” he admitted.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
Yes I know there’s a cult that loves its night tennis, that glamorizes it, that thinks it’s an essential part of the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Booth glamorizes the hustle, but Lincoln lived the dangers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
However well researched and respectful Thyberg's film is, the lack of the seedy underbelly inadvertently glamorizes this business.
From Salon ● May 13, 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
“I feel it very much glamorizes it,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2017
"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
“I’ve always loved the glamorized environment of photo sets. I fell in love with it.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2023
These women aren’t glamorized by Brathwaite’s lens, and I wish the exhibition had made more explicit their roles as co-developers of the movement.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
Now that he had gone, these things, so long subdued by his presence, were glamorized in his wake.
From "Sula" by Toni Morrison
By upgrading marriage registries with chandeliers, flower arches and poetry, local Chinese officials are glamorizing city hall weddings in hopes of encouraging young couples to marry and boost the nation’s declining birthrate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
“She’s glamorizing the lie that women can have it all!”
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
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
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
