glamorize
Frequently Asked Questions
- Some war films show the agony of war, while others glamorize it.
- I try not to glamorize the past when I write historical fiction.
- She accused the media of glamorizing the life of a pop star.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But unlike DIS — who do so without discernible politics and tend to glamorize a sense of existential resignation — Kline is stridently and sincerely polemical.
From New York Times
Did I glamorize Los Angeles in a way that she would immediately find annoying?
From Los Angeles Times
Youth now occupy a social order in which war is glamorized, even if it bears down destructively on their everyday existence.
From Salon
Yet this cynical, near-future crime thriller, with its Hunger Games morality and Mad Max aesthetic, is too busy glamorizing cruelty to allow its central relationship to resonate.
From New York Times
However well researched and respectful Thyberg's film is, the lack of the seedy underbelly inadvertently glamorizes this business.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.