Verb (used with object) : Many people romanticize the role of an editor. From Dictionary.com.
This isn't really a topic you can romanticise is it?. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: Hackers, the documentary] Reference
We didn't have time to "romanticise" the woods and the hills. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
That book definitely did not romanticise the conflict. From Wordnik.com. [The problems facing newspapers ...] Reference
In the Victorian days, writers would romanticise about the Orient. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - Old people worry about the milk] Reference
You could romanticise it, although I don't think in a documentary. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: Hackers, the documentary] Reference
Blow them out of the water, I say, don't let's romanticise what they are. From Wordnik.com. [[pirates] a time for everything] Reference
Nevertheless, one must not over-romanticise the quality of the views presented. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It would be foolish to romanticise tagging as some noble pursuit because it's not. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-02-01] Reference
There is no way to politically romanticise this savagery as any sort of "freedom fighting.". From Wordnik.com. [The Sudden Curve:] Reference
Locke certainly has his faults, and his critics, and it is important not to romanticise him. From Wordnik.com. [John Locke] Reference
You can just about, if you've got the right sort of mind, just about romanticise and helplessness. From Wordnik.com. [Address at the Scottish Episcopal Church Provincial Conference] Reference
Such a vision should not seek to romanticise and re-create the past glory associated with city centres. From Wordnik.com. [SPEECH BY THE DEPUTY PRESIDENT, MR T M MBEKI, TO BE DELIVERED AT THE SAPOA CONVENTION] Reference
With no moral centre, you can romanticise Robespierre as both Brutus and Caesar according to your whims. From Wordnik.com. [What? Not interested in "squishy grey area between the analytical/political and the creative/autobiographical"?] Reference
Now instead there is a tendency to romanticise them, which only disguises distrust of their differences. From Wordnik.com. [Link love: language (6)] Reference
Even when I did romanticise in my music, it was always about Manchester, because that's what I knew best. From Wordnik.com. [FallNet - Old people worry about the milk] Reference
This too is a reminder that those tempted to romanticise de Valera's Ireland are peddling terrible nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
They romanticise blackness in ways that are insulting to the very black people with whom they profess to identify. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Today] Reference
But it's hard not to romanticise these quirky anddefiant structures, and thereby see other casualties among the ruins. From Wordnik.com. [The death of a pier] Reference
He dislikes our Western way of life and romanticises the Islamic world as much as Marxists used to romanticise the USSR. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-09-05] Reference
We shouldn't romanticise grammar schools, which were divisive nor underestimate the effects on people of failing their 11 plus. From Wordnik.com. [What's gone wrong with comprehensives?] Reference
The BBCs number one unbiased source claimed their hero Prabakaran who they love to romanticise with is not dead including The Times. From Wordnik.com. [SAVE THE TIGERS..?] Reference
Therefore, is it prudent to romanticise the Balrams?. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
'It does not romanticise radicalism' … Son of a Lion. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
What's needed is a cool diplomatic type who doesn't romanticise. From Wordnik.com. [newmatilda.com - Comments] Reference
It is important not to romanticise modern, secular India, however. From Wordnik.com. [New Statesman] Reference
And yet, it is a mistake to romanticise working with your hands, he warns. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
We romanticise this and blather on about how it has made us great and strong. From Wordnik.com. [The Age News Headlines] Reference
Determined to romanticise the Yorkshire pastureland which supplied much of his wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"We tend to romanticise the past and pretend everyone was united back then," he told me. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
We are not here to romanticise management, to play The Bold and the Beautiful with them. From Wordnik.com. [IOL: News] Reference
The army is deployed for operations against insurgents in society must not romanticise the Naxalites. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Maoists getting arms from Bangladesh, Myanmar: Chidambaram] Reference
Obviously it's easy to romanticise print journalism; a trade that, at its Fleet Street worst, was a gravy train of excess. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News Breaking News and Current News from the UK and World Telegraph] Reference
Joe Pug: Now that my songs have received a small degree of public validation, it's easy to look back and romanticise those years. From Wordnik.com. [Drowned In Sound // Feed] Reference
Perhaps best of all, the millions of service workers and frustrated airline passengers out there don't have to romanticise a crook. From Wordnik.com. [The Times of India] Reference
Although he produces incredibly detailed, almost jewel-like miniatures, Darren Hughes does not appear to romanticise the land in any way. From Wordnik.com. [WalesOnline - Home] Reference
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