Romanticize in a sentence as a verb

My ignorance had allowed me to romanticize them."

Quote from the article: "I don't romanticize the bad old days. I find the drop in crime over the last couple of decades refreshing.

I think people tend to romanticize old technology because it did so much with so little. My dad always makes fun of these people by saying "They don't build 'em like they used to: They build 'em better."

I know a lot of these rants tend to romanticize how hard people's own professions are in a "no one else has it this hard" type stance. We see similar "how hard it is to be a programmer" type rants as well.

And I'm not trying to romanticize it. I also understand that many people in that condition are miserable.

I think they're helping to romanticize the web, or maybe just highlight and help legitimize the beauty that's already there.

You can romanticize their situation, or we can decide to leave them there for other reasons but claiming they have nothing to gain is just plain wrong.

Sometimes people suffering from those illnesses are able to create beautiful works, but we don't romanticize their diseases because of it. Why would/should we do that with depression?

I reaally hope they don't romanticize the relationship between Corkin and HM. It's fascinating as is.

I romanticize my job by equating it to writing love poems to an inanimate object. Sometimes I get affection, often times I get rejection.

I think a lot of people romanticize things like Bitcoin as being part of a world that's lawless relative to the real one. And as hackers, it's one where the lack of order favors them, just as the lack of order in the Wild West favored those with the most horses and guns.

I particularly appreciate that the book covers a lot of the hard work, arguments, and drama that are often forgotten when we romanticize the past.

People often romanticize such activities, they think there's some profound meaning and honor in enduring them, and they even feel ashamed if they fall short of the societal norm. But in many cases, the illusion of honor is just a collective coping strategy.

You can romanticize how much better their situation will be all you want, but there's plenty of evidence it won't be. I read an article years ago on feral surfers who were basically turning indigenous peoples into diseased addicts, sex workers, and slaves.

I think its easy to romanticize any situation, but I would seriously implore you to reconsider your preconceived notion on the inhabitants of these low income neighborhoods. The more widespread this belief, the fewer intelligent people willing to work to fix these difficult issues.

This is the kind of advice that leads mediocre founders to romanticize ramen-noodles and cheapskate their talent - either getting second tier people or trying to cajole talented engineers into taking much-below-market rate wages. Obviously it's better for founders to be capital efficient and keep costs low.

Personally, I think people over-romanticize hacker culture in saying it's a key part of technological progress. Scientific advancement is a process that overwhelmingly happens purposefully, not through tinkering.

Demanding market rates is a rational response to a job offer, and I do not understand why otherwise rational engineers romanticize working for less than they are worth simply because "engineers make a lot of money."

Which is why it seems ridiculous that a certain sort of person will both make a big stink about someone smoking nearby outdoors, and also romanticize rural peasant life and wax poetic about how much less toxic life used to be in the past.

Why do we romanticize this? It's becoming obnoxious — the glorification of obnoxiousness.

Since the Ayer plan to romanticize diamonds required subtly altering the public's picture of the way a man courts -- and wins -- a woman, the advertising agency strongly suggested exploiting the relatively new medium of motion pictures. Movie idols, the paragons of romance for the mass audience, would be given diamonds to use as their symbols of indestructible love.

Romanticize definitions

verb

interpret romantically; "Don't romanticize this uninteresting and hard work!"

See also: romanticise glamorize glamourise

verb

make romantic in style; "The designer romanticized the little black dress"

See also: romanticise

verb

act in a romantic way