0 present 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.
Britain's tradition of collectivism he interprets as a decadent, romanticizing humanism, anti-industrial, riddled with illusions, and perpetuated by the public-school system.
The emphasis rests on the wrongness this collection emphatically rejects the romanticizing, the domestication of the traditional tropes, which of course makes me regard it favorably.
This is due in part to the fact that unlike that pirate his absence from most of the archipelago's recorded history prevented the romanticizing of his life and legacy.
But with time the meaning of the verse changed as people began romanticizing it.
He is noted by critics for his remarkably exhaustive accounts and for his tendency to avoid romanticizing his subjects' lives.
Although he was influenced by naturalism and verismo, his romanticizing productions were basically historical idylls.
When not satiric, its approach to quaint folkloric detail often has a romanticizing aspect.
It carries to its ultimate absurdity the fashion for romanticizing gangsters, for even in defeat the public enemy is endowed with grandeur.
