as in to glamour (up)
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Viewing them through the proxy of Joe, McGahern refuses to romanticize these characters, who are often admirable but also, by turns, nosy, deceitful, aggressive, and ridiculous.—
Sam Sacks,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025 -
These practices romanticize the actual selective practices of the University of Chicago and similar schools which purported to limit presidents from showing the same periodic moral responsibility, patriotic duties, and institutional voice of other pillars of American society.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
TIME,
28 Dec. 2024
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The introduction argues that feminism opened space for artists to confront corporeal experiences and oppression based in bodily difference, space to show us not generalized or idealized figures, but messy and personal ones instead.—
Emily Watlington,
ARTnews.com,
17 Jan. 2025
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While some look at this movement as idealizing a time when women had fewer rights and independence, many trad wives do not think their roles are demeaning.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA TODAY,
13 Nov. 2024
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Her pitch was simple: Homosexuality is a sin, and if homosexuals were given carte blanche to glamorize their ‘deviate lifestyle’ in Miami-area classrooms, the American family would be destroyed and the American way of life would disappear.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
9 Jan. 2025
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Media coverage often emphasizes their charm or intelligence, which can inadvertently glamorize their heinous acts.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Heroicize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heroicize. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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