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  • verb US Present participle of romanticize.

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Examples

  • I believe we tend to romanticize our lives everywhere we live, and that we become expert in romanticizing lives that aren't our own.

    A Conversation with Mark Spragg about An Unfinished Life 2010

  • Géricault (1791-1824) revolutionized the depiction of real events, taking for his subject a scandal only a few years old and "romanticizing" it.

    Revolutionary Romanticism 2009

  • Yet Lawrence mocked Luhan and other Anglo women for "romanticizing" their Pueblo neighbors.

    Oddballs in the Desert 2008

  • Yes, the very same kind of romanticizing goes on even today, and an age-old problem resurfaces.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Yes, the very same kind of romanticizing goes on even today, and an age-old problem resurfaces.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • Carl Linnaeus, known as the father of taxonomy, sexualized plants, giving them male and female parts and "romanticizing" botany, even though most flowers are hermaphroditic, said Nancy Naples, professor of sociology and women's studies, who studies the sociology of gender.

    UConn Advance Headlines 2009

  • Don't look now, but someone is "romanticizing" their own viewpoint and "closing ranks" with people who aren't

    Latest Articles 2009

  • The Western philosopher Martin Heidegger would criticize our romanticizing the bee because, to him, human beings are more present in the world than bees, animals, and plants.

    The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010

  • He just saw what could happen when, as he put it, we start "over-expecting" and romanticizing at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

    Dr. Phil McGraw: Holiday Advice Dr. Phil McGraw 2011

  • He just saw what could happen when, as he put it, we start "over-expecting" and romanticizing at Thanksgiving and Christmas.

    Dr. Phil McGraw: Holiday Advice Dr. Phil McGraw 2011

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