romanticize
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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
Indian elites romanticize the idea of India as an independent tech power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
By depicting Oklahoma rez life through the eyes of the restless teenagers raised on movies that romanticize escaping home to find themselves, Harjo’s stories bubbled over with joy and ridiculousness.
From Salon ● 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
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
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
The teacher, ever the melancholic, romanticizes ancient Greek as a pinnacle of language that has died and toward which he is still vainly striving.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 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
He misses Caroline terribly, and romanticizes her as the ideal woman.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
Licolli, the poultry organizer, said she has “never romanticized the immigrant community and the immigrant movement.”
From Salon ● Mar. 22, 2026
The pitch for the theme park was to show the Golden State as a romanticized destination, celebrating our people, our nature, our food and our glamour through a lighthearted, optimistic lens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2026
That’s by design, says Mero, who cites the ornately romanticized vibe and color palette of the Los Angeles Theatre as prime inspiration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
Family told her to move on and friends romanticized her ordeal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
A sort of mystical fairy tale, it romanticized and celebrated the simple life of German farmers living harmoniously with nature on their German soil.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
The just-quirky-girls-at-a-country-club mood does eventually turn darker, but the musical, like some other works of art about mental illness, often falls into the trap of romanticizing it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
"We are not romanticizing poverty. We want to change the prejudice that exists in people's minds."
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
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
Witness Beatles fans’ collective romanticizing about “Now and Then,” The Threetles’ posthumous 2023 UK chart-topper, as Lennon’s late 1970s ode to his friendship with McCartney.
From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025
“It sounds nice. But do you think you arc romanticizing? ‘The restless grey sea’?”
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
