romanticize

1 This invaluable Irish contribution to America's salvation has been forgotten today because the American Revolution's story has been so thoroughly reinvented, romanticized, and mythologized.

2 But people have a very romanticized notion of it.

3 He also wrote thousands of letters, many from far-flung islands that he romanticized as free from the corrupting modernism of the West.

4 “His tale is evidence that we shouldn’t in fact romanticize such loners,” Mr. Isaacson says firmly.

5 As Milford once said in an interview, Zelda “haunts our idea of what it is like to be this spirited girl caught in a web of destruction, which ends up being romanticized.”

6 You know, there is this strain of Scottish-ness, which is very outward looking and romanticizing.

7 She encouraged Wilder to recast the memoir as a series of “juveniles,” and, in the course of a decade, they cannibalized, sanitized, and romanticized “Pioneer Girl” for the “Little House” books.

8 Maybe because we live in an age of so many choices, most of them meaningless, we romanticize the notion that falling in love isn't a choice but something that happens to us.

也许是因为我们生活在一个选择多多的时代，而大多数的选择都是毫无意义的，我们总是喜欢沉醉于浪漫主意的幻想中，认为坠入爱河不是一种选择而是会自然而然地发生在我们身上的事。

9 Kristof and others constantly romanticize the life they imagine we live, or used to live, and I wouldn't trade it for any other.

克里斯托夫和其他人总是把他们想象中的我们现在或过去的生活浪漫化，我不会拿它去换其他的东西。

10 If we romanticize the horrible end of the Archduke..we lose all sense of tragedy.

11 McKay resists the urge to romanticize that marks so much of travel writing, and instead boldly denounces, criticizes and lays bare the realities of the people and places he encounters.

12 I still romanticize going to the video store.

13 The difference is that “Pan Am” romanticizes the past, whereas “Mad Men,” on AMC, takes pleasure in slyly mocking antiquated mores.

14 The dominant culture’s collective romanticizing of how things used to be is playing a huge role in worsening the nation’s divisions.

15 So much for romanticizing the Native American experience.

16 We need to stop romanticizing the void that follows an explosion.

17 The organization also targeted the film when the initial trailer was released, arguing that it “deceives the public with a visually appealing melodramatic love story that romanticizes and normalizes sexual violence.”

18 I wonder if something like the opposite is happening now: The allure of presentism is causing people to romanticize contemporary perspectives at the expense of an excessively vilified past.

19 Sure a mistake to romanticize all this any more than is strictly necessary.

当然，把这些过于传奇化是不对的。

20 Van Gogh is, of course, the patron saint of all those who romanticize a link between mental illness and creativity.

1 理想化

romantic glam sublimate apotheosize romanticism

2 使理想化

idealize sublimate apotheosize

3 夸张地描述

caricature