glorification

Example Sentences

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Recall also the Covid-era glorification of “quiet quitting”—in which employees simply stop doing the jobs they were contracted to do—and the scores of think pieces claiming that Americans’ “work-life balance” is less than optimal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

No amount of glorification will save the Constitution unless we address the underlying causes of what Yale Law School professor Jack Balkin calls “constitutional rot.”

From Salon • Oct. 21, 2025

Gray calls this attitude part of “conspicuous resilience,” conflating being temporarily displaced and inconvenienced with being oppressed and vulnerable, leading to the celebration and glorification of a recovery that mostly benefits the few.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2025

He said he had spent 45 days in prison on charges of sati glorification but was acquitted in January 2004 for “lack of evidence”.

From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024

Second, doesn’t addressing Yali’s question automatically involve a Eurocentric approach to history, a glorification of western Europeans, and an obsession with the prominence of western Europe and Europeanized America in the modern world?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond