0 to talk about something in a way that makes it sound better than it really is, or to believe that something is better than it really is: --
Stop romanticizing! Nothing's that perfect.
1 to believe that something is better, more interesting, or more exciting than it really is: --
Clark's highly emotionally charged departure was romanticized, recounted to their juniors and published by the students.
In certain ways, modern and contemporary critics romanticize "race" in nineteenth-century novels: quite aware of its historical occurrence, they loathe to face - or to explicate - its literary signs and representation.
Downtown, that once golden democratic space romanticized by journalists, novelists and often-as-not scholars, is always in decline, always leaving behind a sense of communal loss.
None of these declarations, highly romanticizing in their effect, is subjected to the kind of critical scrutiny that is strenuously advocated elsewhere in the book, with damaging consequences.
Only as his body falls lifeless is his music exalted to a comparably romanticized spiritual dimension.
They are romanticized in folk songs, but they make poor real estate investments.
They thus question those values that have become mythologized and romanticized by the present culture.
Situated approaches to literacy have been accused of "relativism" and of "romanticizing" the local context.
