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He hopes the early ’80s nostalgia will resonate not just for those who experienced it firsthand, but for young people now who romanticize a smartphone-free existence.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

The old common-law “hue and cry” is not a model to romanticize; it could be coercive, punitive, and exclusionary.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

“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 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

She typically acts unbothered, but on this vulnerable track, she sheds a little light on her lover girl personality as she romanticizes all the ways she wants to build a life with a new man.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

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

“And if it romanticizes adolescence through the weekly trials and triumphs of its teenage hero,” he wrote, “at least it does so in more ambitious, inquisitive and authentic ways than the average TV teeny-bop.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 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

Styling is one of those things where I think I romanticized it, as I do everything in life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

The Keith painting is “quintessential California, a romanticized view of the Sierra Nevada range. William Keith, the painter, was friends with John Muir,” Falcone said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

She also felt “untethered” from her college friends who, she writes, romanticized her time with revolutionaries as “far out” and “cool.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 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

A sort of mystical fairy tale, it romanticized and celebrated the simple life of German farmers living harmoniously with nature on their German soil.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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

Witness Beatles fans’ collective romanticizing about “Now and Then,” The Threetles’ posthumous 2023 UK chart-topper, as Lennon’s late 1970s ode to his friendship with McCartney.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025

What’s more, it points directly at the immense danger of romanticizing the past, imagining that if we could only reclaim and reframe and resurrect history, our present problems would be solved.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2024

“It sounds nice. But do you think you arc romanticizing? ‘The restless grey sea’?”

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins