The word "romanticise" is correct in written English.
It is used to describe the act of portraying something in a romantic or idealized manner, often making it seem better than it is. Example: "Many films tend to romanticise the struggles of artists, overlooking the harsh realities they face." Alternatives include "idealize" or "glamorize."
I prefer neither to romanticise nor to darken my experience.
Inevitably, there will be those who object to the T-pylon, who will want to romanticise the traditional design as an emblem of a century that has rejoiced in access to electricity.
The Soviet system Havel protested against as absurd was something Hitchens was inclined to romanticise from the safe distance of his perch at the Nation.
But this, it turns out, is a statement about myth, not fact a myth that Buffalo Bill and his travelling circus made popular in the 19th century and cowboy films continue to romanticise in the 20th.The big industrial cities back East were actually far more violent than even the most notorious cowboy town.
Rivera's history in many ways coincided with the myths born of the 1910-17 revolution, but he provided the crucial images that enabled Mexicans to see Cortes and the conquistadors as cruel invaders and to romanticise their own Indian past.
And New Guinea Highlander children are encouraged to play with knives and with fire, precisely so that they are able to learn from their mistakes.In all this, the author's argument is not that we should abandon our modern way of life he certainly has not nor does he romanticise traditional people as earth-loving peaceniks.
Unlike many on the right, he does not romanticise the countryside; he was brought up in a small milling town.But his style has changed drastically, even in the past few years.
But many other would-be entrepreneurs have not been so lucky.It is fashionable to romanticise entrepreneurs.
They do not burn with hatred for the north, nor do they romanticise it, as some older leftists used to do.
To his great dismay, radical groups some time later tried to turn his tax against his own free-trade ideals.Unlike those anti-globalisers who romanticise poverty from afar, Mr Tobin had seen it first-hand.
The French, who still romanticise their founding revolutionary myth, are more prone than most to take to the streets, and are particularly bad-tempered and dissatisfied right now.
