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But it’s Bracco who keeps the movie honest, making the wronged wife more than a stock character and giving the affair consequences the movie can’t romanticize away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The old common-law “hue and cry” is not a model to romanticize; it could be coercive, punitive, and exclusionary.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

“It’s easy to romanticize it, to say, ‘I want to live among the locals.’

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Sander does not romanticize, valorize or flatter them: The even lighting comes from an overcast sky; they are dressed in dark suits and hats, one smokes a cigarette, and each sports a cane.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

It is important to keep in mind, though, that many rappers and hip-hop artists do not aim to glorify or romanticize gangsta life or culture.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

The comedy premiered in 2015 on the CW and is about a character so desperate to feel happy that she romanticizes a relationship she had as a teenager at summer camp.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

But on the other, he romanticizes the legendary songwriting duo’s friendship out of proportion with the immutable facts of history.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025

“It very much romanticizes the idea of what not only Maori are going through but many Indigenous cultures around the world and almost downplays the suffering,” both from the past and present, Poole said.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022

Art habitually heightens, elides, romanticizes, demonizes, cheats and lies to get what it wants, but we tend to believe it when the art, as here, is good.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2021

He misses Caroline terribly, and romanticizes her as the ideal woman.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

The Keith painting is “quintessential California, a romanticized view of the Sierra Nevada range. William Keith, the painter, was friends with John Muir,” Falcone said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

I also love the hot chocolate, and the tuna melt is a special, more romanticized version of the classic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2026

Family told her to move on and friends romanticized her ordeal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026

While home swapping is romanticized in movies like “The Holiday,” the idea of actually letting a stranger stay in your house while you’re not there might feel daunting.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 19, 2026

“Since I’ve known him. If he had any sense, he would’ve tossed out that romanticized idea of her he’s had for so long and gotten to work doing something useful.”

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

"We are not romanticizing poverty. We want to change the prejudice that exists in people's minds."

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

As Ms. Low says, many women need to “stop romanticizing work” and “remember that your employer will never love you back.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

Instead of romanticizing the struggle, she said, there should be “tangible support like housing or employment” and other resources.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2025

No doubt there's a long history of Americans romanticizing criminals, going back at least to Jesse James or Billy the Kid, who became icons of the Wild West.

From Salon ● May 31, 2024

How ridiculous that he’d still be romanticizing her in these final hours.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman