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- verb UK Present participle of
romanticise .
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Examples
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AfriForum's Willie Spies said it was essential that all South African - white and black - refrain from reckless statements and, what he called, the "romanticising" of violence.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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AfriForum's Willie Spies said it was essential that all South African - white and black - refrain from reckless statements and, what he called, the "romanticising" of violence.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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Yet we know one thing about speculating in print about the reasons behind a suicide, about blanket coverage, and "romanticising" the dead: it will lead to more people killing themselves.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk Carole Cadwalladr 2010
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AfriForum's Willie Spies said it was essential that all South African - white and black - refrain from reckless statements and, what he called, the "romanticising" of violence.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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'romanticising' poverty consists in leaving out the wailing violins and the BBC-voice narration.
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Media has been romanticising this guy since he announced he was running for the presidency.
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Your examples are, to my mind, the problem of romanticising arcane ideas like chivalry and nobility.
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Maybe I am just, as so many before me have, romanticising the past, but I KNOW that when I make sure I look 'done' before leaving the house I get a different response from people (mostly positive) and that I, in turn, am more positive.
"A Certain Element of Dress" Linda 2009
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I wonder whether the West was still romanticising Arabian Muslim culture at the time of the first novel's inception.
Muad'Dib's Moral Ambiguity Erika Nelson 2009
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Proponents see a way to catch up with state-of-the-art mass transit in Europe and Asia and to cut travel costs for middle-class workers; skeptics tend to scorn high-speed rail enthusiasts for romanticising outmoded, overpriced conveyances that few car-owners or frequent flyers would bother to ride...
Jan McGirk: Fast and Furious Opposition to High Speed Rail Gets U.S. Off Track Jan McGirk 2011
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