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  • verb UK Third-person singular simple present indicative form of romanticise.

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Examples

  • I think that overstates (and perhaps romanticises) the situation in NI during the long, grinding days of the 1980s, well after Bobby Sands went to his grave.

    Matthew Yglesias » The Anti-Terror Right’s Incentive Problem 2010

  • The Lee comments about how the film reduces Woolf to a victim and romanticises creativity remnded me of the myths post and how one of the attractions of myth (of that type) is the simplification of existence.

    Virginia Woolf’s Nose « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

  • Barack Obama romanticises his father, a septembergurl

    The King and the Queen - Erick’s blog - RedState 2009

  • I do not agree with those who say that it romanticises the Hunger Strikers and frankly I am confident enough of my own views of that horrific propaganda stunt not to be troubled by the director's views one way or the other.

    History now 2008

  • "The public media is engaged in a propaganda war, which romanticises and promotes the ruling party and denigrates its rivals," MMPZ said in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • Classic literature even romanticises the concept – Romeo and Juliet is the obvious example, but particularly in feudal Japan, love-suidice pacts were a tragic staple of Yoshiwarasociety.

    2008 September 16 « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • They are then fed a culture which romanticises violence and worships sex — telling them there is nothing more to life than the cravings of their bodies.

    Think Progress » Sen. Edward Kennedy says voting against the Iraq war 2006

  • Classic literature even romanticises the concept – Romeo and Juliet is the obvious example, but particularly in feudal Japan, love-suidice pacts were a tragic staple of Yoshiwarasociety.

    The Dying Of The Light « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows 2008

  • To do so requires that we adopt a universal standard of human rights and abandon our loyalty to multicultural relativism, which justifies, even romanticises, indigenous Islamist barbarism, totalitarian terrorism and the persecution of women, religious minorities, homosexuals and intellectuals.

    Times Columnist Lays Down A Challenge 2007

  • To do so requires that we adopt a universal standard of human rights and abandon our loyalty to multicultural relativism, which justifies, even romanticises, indigenous Islamist barbarism, totalitarian terrorism and the persecution of women, religious minorities, homosexuals and intellectuals.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

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