What is "romanticize"

Usage examples of "romanticize".

But Bernabe understood roots and he understood the fractured culture, loving what was good in the past while refusing to romanticize it, at the same time that he admired all his stubborn neighbors who had survived on a wing and a prayer, on bootleg liquor, on a half-dozen illegal deer a year, and on a handful of overgrazed alfalfa fields.

Not some romanticized princeling in exile who would eventually do some heroic task, but a killer.

I do know that it will not do at all to have those three romanticize him else they will all be abovestairs, trying to hatch schemes to lure him away from Sofie and on to Gretna Green.

Other regional shopping centers also rationalized and romanticized shopping, making the experience easy, efficient, comfortable, and aesthetically pleasing.

She had never been one to overreact to, or romanticize, a good fuck, but her liaison with Chev had resulted in a startling communion, and it had stirred her in unexpected ways.

Among the top two or three phyles is the New Atlantans, or neo-Victorians, who have, in reaction against the moral centerlessness of the late 20th century, adopted a social system rounded on the customs of self-restraint, formality, and romanticized chivalry of the 19th.

Shank, however, wore as part of his uniform a strangely romanticized version of Seti plains garb, all of which had been made by a seamstress in the employ of a theatre company in Unta.

She liked to try divining worlds from the grace of a gesture, the ebb of an expression, always aware, of course, of the ever-present danger of romanticizing our Third World brothers and sisters, but she was a professional, this was her job to observe with scientific detachment humanity in all its incarnations so that later, under footlights or a Panaflex lens, she might mimic the truth with oracular accuracy.

Because there were times when a "bang-bang" like himself was needed, just as Balaklava had had soldiery who performed their jobs while Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered He smiled, amused by Tennyson's romanticizing, and his own.

She had clung to his arm from the moment he lifted her to the ground, her pale blue goddess eyes storing forever the memory of her first sight of the real Caerlaverock, now no longer a romanticized childhood fantasy.

Jordan decorated the borders of the menus with romanticized scenes of the diggings: the stagings soaring above the gaping pit, heroic figures working on the walls of yellow earth, a sorter at his table, and at the head of the sheet a man's cupped hands overflowing with uncut diamonds, and he coloured the illustrations with water paints.

Films like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and even the heavily documented How The West Was Won, show the grueling hardships, but the end result is one of glamorization, of romanticizing the facts.

You know the movie versions, the cleaned up, romanticized, glamorized crap.

A family is something he didn't have, growing up, and he romanticizes it, but still.

He’s the kind of person who falls in love with the past, who romanticizes it, who lives vicariously in antiquity.