romanticise

This isn't really a topic you can romanticise is it?

Filmstalker: Hackers, the documentary 2006

We didn't have time to "romanticise" the woods and the hills.

openDemocracy Paul Kingsnorth 2010

Naxalism remains the biggest internal security threat to India, he said and hit out at intellectuals who still try to "romanticise" the Naxalites.

The Times of India 2009

Naxalism remains the biggest internal security threat to India, he said and hit out at intellectuals who still try to "romanticise" the Naxalites.

The Economic Times 2009

Naxalism remains the biggest internal security threat to India, he said and hit out at intellectuals who still try to "romanticise" the naxalites.

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Williams, speaking in the House of Lords, said: There is nothing to romanticise and there is nothing to condone in the behaviour that has spread across our streets.

The C of E's response to the riots has cemented its role in society | Andrew Brown 2011

Though it should not lead us to romanticise the bone-headed aspects of post-war Labourism, her policies no longer look inevitable nor, in many cases, very sensible.

The credit crunch will do for Margaret Thatcher's reputation 2009

Now instead there is a tendency to romanticise them, which only disguises distrust of their differences.

Link love: language (6) 2009

He was, in this way, one of the first authors not to romanticise or sentimentalise poverty and the brutal, relentless toil of the working classes.

Zola and Naturalism « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

Anyone who has worked with people living in slums will recognise the vivacity and can-do attitude that pervades the programme which is not to romanticise very difficult, dirty and often violent conditions.

Want to know what to do about slum dwellers? Try listening to them 2011