romanticization
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The romanticization of a single piece of lettuce was certainly not on my bucket list for 2025.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2025
But if this tantalizing glimpse of a purer agrarian existence opens up worlds of possibility, Moreno is up to something less simplistic and more interesting than a demonization of town and a romanticization of country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2023
But she’s fine with the romanticization, “if it leads people to want to read a book about it, all the better.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
Cheney Poole, 27, from Christchurch, New Zealand — known as Otautahi, Aotearoa, in the Maori language — calls the film’s portrayal “just another example of the same very upfront and apparent romanticization of colonization.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 2022
Even within ultimately dystopian tales, “you can see a sort of romanticization of the scientific endeavor,” says David Koepsell, a philosopher of science and technology at Texas A&M University, College Station.
From Science Magazine ● Nov. 10, 2022
We’re a long way from the heyday of Woody Allen’s romanticizations of the Manhattan literati; these days, we’re more likely to see the self-lacerating portraits of the same set by Noah Baumbach.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2018
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