glorification

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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

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

But many Ghanaians have been mocking its installation - outside a hospital in the city of Sekondi - seeing it as "self glorification".

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2024

Some of those popular expositions were criticized by historians for inaccurate claims and deliberate glorification of Russian rulers and their conquests.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 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