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“It’s easy to romanticize it, to say, ‘I want to live among the locals.’

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Or maybe it’s just as simple as Bramsen’s assessment: “It’s a very Gen Z thing to romanticize weird situations.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 6, 2026

"It's fascinating that something hundreds of years old could so closely match what is around today and contrast so much with what people romanticize the past landscape to be."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2026

Through the sepia filter of today, it can be easy to romanticize this tale — a lesbian champion of the arts making the world safe for Modernism.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

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

But on the other, he romanticizes the legendary songwriting duo’s friendship out of proportion with the immutable facts of history.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025

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

The way Miranda romanticizes Washington Heights in his Tony-winning musical “In the Heights” is nothing compared to the way “New York, New York” sentimentalizes the entire island of Manhattan.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 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

By threading Celan’s poems through the lived record, Ms. Arno restores a proud, wounded, flirtatious, multilingual man often romanticized by reverence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 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

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

For weeks, perhaps months, these children and their mothers cling to romanticized notions of how they should feel toward each other.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

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

Those who support the bans say they are necessary to keep the next generation of young people from romanticizing violence, and to honor those who have lost loved ones to bloodshed.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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