romanticize
Example Sentences
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In an interview, he said: “It’s easy to romanticize the golden days.”
The work is romanticized to be like a kind of dance.
From Salon
“Honey and Clover” dignifies the clumsy missteps of young adulthood in a way that teens will appreciate, because if rejection and failure have to be a part of life, might as well romanticize it, right?
From New York Times
But the British overreacted by executing the leaders and then the Irish were so good in romanticizing things with ballads and poetry, and that fuels the founding myths of the modern Irish state.
From Los Angeles Times
“They romanticize the ‘new’ New York, but if we’re getting kicked out of it, there ain’t nothing cute about it,” Taylor recently told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times
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