romanticize
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We like to romanticize cooking and call it an art.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 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
But lately, I’ve been thinking about something: Everybody wants to romanticize the pantry.
From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2026
“It’s easy to romanticize it, to say, ‘I want to live among the locals.’
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 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
Gurr speaks with a mix of humor, directness and curiousity, eager to share stories but also not someone who overly romanticizes them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 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
The destroyed North Hangar represents the folly of Orange County, a place that romanticizes its past while letting it rot if there’s no profit to be made.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023
“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
He misses Caroline terribly, and romanticizes her as the ideal woman.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
He’s not unaware that Meyers’ mostly 20-something male friends have — like many — romanticized the gritty abandon of lower Manhattan’s bygone literary scene and perhaps Ed’s tenuous place in it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
By threading Celan’s poems through the lived record, Ms. Arno restores a proud, wounded, flirtatious, multilingual man often romanticized by reverence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Licolli, the poultry organizer, said she has “never romanticized the immigrant community and the immigrant movement.”
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026
Its pitch was to show the Golden State as a romanticized destination, one that in the post-Gold Rush era has often given America permission to dream.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2026
For weeks, perhaps months, these children and their mothers cling to romanticized notions of how they should feel toward each other.
From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario
"We are not romanticizing poverty. We want to change the prejudice that exists in people's minds."
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
The historic Egmont was a Flemish general, a hero to his people in the Netherlands who attempts to serve the 16th century Spanish emperor, Philip II, and rife for Goethe’s romanticizing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 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
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
