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Corey Seemiller told me every generation tends to romanticize the version of young adulthood it experienced while quietly forgetting the parts that weren’t so glamorous.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

“As I come back home and isolate, I romanticize about the past, and the music is the best way for me to live that. I get to watch my own soundtrack through the music.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 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

Indian elites romanticize the idea of India as an independent tech power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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

I intentionally wear my green bok choy earrings for the interview because, after watching the series, I think that if there’s anyone who can appreciate how nostalgia romanticizes the simplest of objects, it’s Wang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

Poet romanticizes her career, and her career is her everything, and that stays really true for the past, present and future.

From Salon ● May 24, 2023

“And if it romanticizes adolescence through the weekly trials and triumphs of its teenage hero,” he wrote, “at least it does so in more ambitious, inquisitive and authentic ways than the average TV teeny-bop.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 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

“Brazil can join the regional transformation that, in recent years, has allowed Latin America to shed its image as a land of romanticized poverty,” Milei said, “and become a synonym for progress.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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

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

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

When she thinks of that day, she’s certain she has romanticized it in the way of first loves.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon

"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

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

What’s more, it points directly at the immense danger of romanticizing the past, imagining that if we could only reclaim and reframe and resurrect history, our present problems would be solved.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

“It sounds nice. But do you think you arc romanticizing? ‘The restless grey sea’?”

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins