0 past simple and past participle of romanticize --
1 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.
Among the historically accurate retelling of events, preference for the oft romanticized accounts were sometimes used.
Western novels, or cowboy novels, portrayed the west as both a barren landscape and a romanticized idealistic way of living.
All romanticized notions aside, the plantation house was, at its most basic, a functioning farmhouse.
Goldman argues that discourses on power were often articulated through the romanticized representations of gender and class in the opera and in 'literati' writings about performance and actors.
Nor is it clear that displaying an aestheticized, romanticized fantasy image of the poor for the edification or titillation of the sinful affluent really furthers egalitarian ideals.
Clark's highly emotionally charged departure was romanticized, recounted to their juniors and published by the students.
Any likelihood of romanticized nostalgia was lessened as these resonances of the past became associated by myself and the performers with notions of abandonment, sadness, and neglect.
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.
