Elena Satine

It's funny how the ruthless, murderous gangster has really been romanticized by the media. I mean, I grew up watching the 'Godfathers' and 'Scarface,' and they were the coolest. They're just really interesting stories with great characters. They're rock stars.

Georgian Actress

Jaron Lanier

I view advertising as being this romanticizing element that helps us appreciate, understand and enjoy how remarkable it is that we've been able to do so much, and learn so much. I view it as really vital, even though sometimes it can be really annoying.

American Artist

Ruth Reichl

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

American Chef

David Harbour

I have one thing to say about the mental asylum. I've romanticized two things in my life, and both have fallen short. One is being in a mental asylum. Really, really not as fun as you think it is.

American Actor

Dennis Skinner

I never, ever romanticise life in the pit. It was a hard, dirty, noisy, tiring, dangerous job in a confined space, a very dark world with no toilets or running water to drink or wash with.

British Politician

John Nettles

But, in real life, I'm not a sex symbol. I'm popular with female viewers, but television is fantasy land. People watching don't see the real person; they see a romanticised image.

British Actor

John Lasseter

Today, among little girls especially, princesses and the romanticised ideal they represent - finding the man of your dreams - have a limited shelf life.

American Director

Laura Marling

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

English Musician

Anne Roiphe

Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.

Journalist

Mahira Khan

I romanticise every moment of my life, and that is why I have fallen in love with life.

Pakistani Actress

Remember 'romanticize' can imply a misleading or overly positive view of reality.

Overly Positive

Using 'romanticize' can suggest that someone's perspective is biased or unrealistic.

Potential Bias

The word often indicates making something more emotionally appealing.

Emotional Appeal

'Romanticize' can involve focusing on the love aspect, not just making things seem better.

Love Focus

It may mean ignoring the flaws in someone or something, especially in relationships.

Ignoring Flaws

Using 'romanticize' can suggest a nostalgic and often inaccurate view of the past.

Nostalgic Tint

Artists and writers may 'romanticize' to create an alluring fictional setting.

Artistic License

 For the first time, nearly a majority of people lived in cities, so there was a growing distance between us and nature. There was a safe space where we could reconsider the bear and romanticize it. Nature could only start to seem this pure and adorable because we didn't have to be afraid of it anymore.

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 that when you're inside oldness, as opposed to looking at it from the outside, fear subsides. You realize you're still yourself -- maybe even more so. Picasso once said, "It takes a long time to become young." I don't want to romanticize aging. Obviously, there's no guarantee

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 and we've gained a lot in doing so, but I think we've lost something too. Now, I don't romanticize evolutionary time. I'm already beyond the lifespan of most hunter-gatherers, and the outcome of a mortal combat between me myopically stumbling around with a stone-tipped spear

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 and make peace with that in the past certainly people did um tuberculosis killed one in seven people in the 19th century and people just expected that they even romanticized the birth relationship it was a little weird um so yeah we we might well be stuck with this and we

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 at it from the outside fear subsides you realize you're still yourself maybe even more so you know Picasso once said it takes a long time to become young I don't want to romanticize ageing obviously there's no guarantee that it can be a time of

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 in how to run a human society. They constitute experiments from which we ourselves may be able to learn. Tribal societies shouldn't be scorned as primitive and miserable, but also they shouldn't be romanticized as happy and peaceful.

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 entertainment that has romanticized the Mafia and Jersey Shore culture eventually I wrote a novel based on our family stories thousands of people have said that the book parallels their own immigrant family history and

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 But most kids don't hear about people like this. All they hear is that they're going to have to choose. But it's more than that. The notion of the narrowly focused life is highly romanticized in our culture.

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 Now, providing entry-level access is an important first step, but let's not romanticize the situation. By any standard, a few lights and not much else is still living in energy poverty. And what's more,

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 mainstream media has characterized how we see south asians whether by romanticizing its biggest country india or asserting the model minority