Verb (used with object), : an adventure film that tended to glamorize war. From Dictionary.com.
It is one thing for TV executives to try to "glamourise" business for the sake of ratings, but the prime minister, even a sinking one, should know better. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph Blogs] Reference
The film is fantastic, and does not in any way glamourise terrorism. From Wordnik.com. [The Baader Meinhof Complex Movie Trailer | /Film] Reference
Fears that football films will glamourise hooliganism | FreakyTrigger. From Wordnik.com. [Fears that football films will glamourise hooliganism | FreakyTrigger] Reference
If you are going 'glamourise the issue and sell it in lyrical form then at least for gods sake get all the issues right. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-06-01] Reference
Feel free to do without the adornments of thyme, but a student must glamourise his or her life from time to time, however simply. From Wordnik.com. [Caramelised Onion Tart] Reference
If ever you want to glamourise and vaunt a side dish of vegetables, or if you are looking for vegetables presented as a main course, look no further. From Wordnik.com. [Cookery Book Review: Claudia Roden's] Reference
Others have chosen to highlight the shortcomings of the Man From U.N.C.L.E style 70s throwback spy plotlines, that glamourise the profession as a champagne-quaffing, womanising lark- but personally I love it. From Wordnik.com. [Simon Says MY OWN WORST ENEMY may be Christian Slater’s route back to the top… | Obsessed With Film] Reference
To suitably glamourise the face, I chose dramatic lashes from Amacci. From Wordnik.com. [Fashion World of SL] Reference
For trying to glamourise being nothing short of being an utter chav who just happened to have served in the RM. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
The front fenders have lateral air outlets which don't just glamourise the car's looks but serve to improve venting. From Wordnik.com. [Muti] Reference
If you want to glamourise (note the english spelling) young boys, you might show them as something more than vacuous. From Wordnik.com. [AfterElton.com - Because visibility matters] Reference
I can't see how showing one of the best-looking people on the planet chewing on his own face and staring with dead eyes into space could possibly glamourise drug use. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
The film dealt only with the Cuban uprising (it barely mentioned the debacle of the initial uprising) and I must say it did glamourise revolution and make it look particularly easy. From Wordnik.com. [Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52] Reference
A problem I have with this sort of entertainment, perhaps made more pronounced by the proximity of it's subject matter (in that it is the Australian underworld and not the usually seen here American one), is that it truly seems to glamourise the lives of crime being led without asking any kind of deep or relevant questions about the (real) lives the people the characters portray actually led. From Wordnik.com. [- Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community] Reference
Shuter then went on to single-handedly destroy his own arguments as to why the article didn’t glamourise teenage pregnancy with one sentence. From Wordnik.com. [Jamie Lynn Spears No Longer A Pregnant Schoolgirl] Reference
It’s utterly insane for people even more in need of an affluent society than the suits to indulge in random reflex bashing of its philosophical and physical infrastructure while working to glamourise materially and psychicly primitive conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Ladies and gentlemen, the Libertarian Party candidate for the President of the United States of America] Reference
He added that he does not want to glamourise his addictions, saying: "I can't talk about it any other way than going, 'Just don't'. From Wordnik.com. [All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News] Reference
Adverts promote is as though if you don't drink you are some sort of loner/lepper (you know who your mates are and belong) being one example, two of the most watched tv programs are based in pubs (coronation street and eastenders), we have footballers playing in shirts with brands of drink on them, i can even get a drink at the zoo, cinema, theatre, train station and at a petrol garage. we now have "McDonald's type pubs" whos only interest is to get as many young people in as possible and ply them with special 2 for 1 drinks that are aimed at children (no kids like the taste of alcohol so lets make it taste like fruit juice/irn bru etc) then they lob them out on the streets once they have spent their money, if the kids dont get served in the pub they just go to some corner shop and buy it, we have media who glamourise "stars" drunk and falling about all over the place and "entertainment" programs that show groups of young people getting drunk abroad on holiday or in our town centers. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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