romanticize

[ US /ɹoʊˈmæntəˌsaɪz/ ]
VERB
  1. interpret romantically
    Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!
  2. act in a romantic way
  3. make romantic in style
    The designer romanticized the little black dress
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How To Use romanticize In A Sentence

  • I haven’t got a problem with the narrater, he’s obviously romanticized or the opposite, in this case, but he’s an interesting person, so I’m not adverse to hearing his side of things. “The Worst Book I Have Read in the Past Three Years” : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
  • This post made me think about how rural communities are essentialized, or maybe even romanticized. In Case of Fire, Good Luck to You » Sociological Images
  • The image isn't falsely romanticized, and it includes foreign tourists alongside Indian pilgrims.
  • Of course it’s romanticized from the point of view of a southerner, but that’s nowhere near any “propaganda for the slave system”. Matthew Yglesias » Rep Trent Franks: Blacks Were Better Off Under Slavery
  • Nostalgia is a collective, fictionalised and romanticised view of the past, no?
  • They don't romanticize the instrument's folk origins or go in for New Age contrivances.
  • Unfortunately, popular folklore eventually romanticized the leader and his tribe, reducing them almost to comic book caricatures.
  • This contradicts most common criticisms of romanticised portrayals of smoking in contemporary films.
  • We romanticize how great it is drinking pichets of vin rouge in southern France and marvel at how the food of Bologna goes so well with the local wine. Home field disadvantaged – NYT on SF wine lists | Dr Vino's wine blog
  • Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. J. K. Rowling 
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