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.
We should not empower the sentimental patient by romanticizing patient - physician relationships.
This said, it is important to caution against romanticizing communitarian arrangements over the use of the local commons.
Situated approaches to literacy have been accused of "relativism" and of "romanticizing" the local context.
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.
This mixed approach is a way to avoid romanticizing or demonizing one side or another in the eighteenth-century confrontation, and capture the duality of law in its full complexity.
Literature followed different cultural currents, sometimes romanticizing and idealizing girlhood, and at other times developing under the influence of the growing literary realism movement.
It carries to its ultimate absurdity the fashion for romanticizing gangsters, for even in defeat the public enemy is endowed with grandeur.
When not satiric, its approach to quaint folkloric detail often has a romanticizing aspect.
