glorification

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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

Packed with animations, touch-screen displays and other flashy elements, those widely popular expositions were criticized by historians for inaccurate claims and deliberate glorification of Russian rulers and their conquests.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024

The problem lies in our society’s continued glorification of busyness and normalization of sleep deprivation.

From Salon • Jan. 27, 2024

In Michigan, avoiding the glorification of what he called “the aesthetics of fascism” was partially behind the removal of a 20-foot-high portrait of Hitler that had drawn some salutes.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2024

Aureliano Segundo, startled at that unbridled glorification of his father-in-law, could not resist the temptation to make small jokes behind his wife’s back.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez