romanticize
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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
Pop-psychology dispatches with ominous titles like “Gen Zers who romanticize yearning will likely learn these 5 things the hard way” suggest that there is perhaps too much yearning going on.
From Salon ● Feb. 21, 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
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
He misses Caroline terribly, and romanticizes her as the ideal woman.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
South Korea’s romanticized ‘marriage of the century’ blew up in a real-life serial drama everybody is calling the divorce of the century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
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
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
“I think that romanticizing sick artists perpetuates this thing that’s super negative, especially for women,” Gaga said.
From Salon ● Mar. 12, 2025
How ridiculous that he’d still be romanticizing her in these final hours.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
