romanticization
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Salon Food’s Francesca Giangiulio, who has covered Italian cuisine and culture extensively, echoes similar sentiments, saying that the overall romanticization of spaghetti and meatballs “comes from the general romantic nature of Italians and Italian-Americans.”
From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2026
He rejects the romanticization of a starving artist.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 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
And these stories affect how we treat actual wolves, from romanticization on one end to extermination on the other.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
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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