| This contradicts most common criticisms of romanticised portrayals of smoking in contemporary films. |
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| In the minds of many it may be prettified and romanticised, but the need for it is strong notwithstanding. |
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| Nostalgia is a collective, fictionalised and romanticised view of the past, no? |
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| All FEANTSA members stressed in their contributions that this romanticised image of the rough sleeper does not exist. |
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| Most of the books showed an romanticised picture of Sweden with quaint cottage, dark deep forests, mooses and midnight sun. |
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| Those who stayed behind dreamed of it as did Karl May, an author who romanticised the Wild West more than a century ago. |
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| Similarly, Goethe's nineteenth century gardens in Weimar, Germany, were based on the in situ recreation of highly romanticised images of nature. |
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| It satirizes and parodies the romanticised, pessimistic accounts of rural life by writers like Thomas Hardy and Mary Webb. |
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| It is also precisely for this reason that the public sphere cannot be fully understood in its complexities if it is romanticised. |
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| For Castro, the dictator pathetically romanticised by many in Europe, these people are, however, a grave threat. |
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| Until 1978, for their part, Canadian citizens had a much romanticised notion of China, unburdened by any direct experience or knowledge. |
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| But even his wildest landscapes were romanticised in the European tradition. |
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| And it is a romanticised view of childhood to imagine that they are not making decisions and taking responsibilities from a very early age. |
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| Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukSOCIETY has long romanticised the creative power of the loner, be it the scientist who works all night in a laboratory or the cloistered writer wrapped up in the world of his own imagination. |
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| From this he moved to the idea of a blind girl, who builds up a romanticised image of the little man who falls in love with her and makes great sacrifices to find money for her cure. |
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| This said, customary systems should not be romanticised. |
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| Syndicate's romanticised rendition of 1860s London is certainly impressive – a smoky sprawl filled with cockney guttersnipes and towering chimneys. |
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| Anything but a conventional biopic, it also features fight scenes far removed from the romanticised style of the wuxia pian seen in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Wong's own Ashes of Time. |
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| On one side there was a literary element: William Blacker's Along the Enchanted Way and Patrick Leigh Fermor's Between the Woods and the Water – gorgeous, evocative, and – I calculated – highly romanticised. |
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| Geijer's poem did much to propagate the new romanticised ideal of the Viking, which had little basis in historical fact. |
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| Godiva's story could have passed into folk history to be recorded in a romanticised version. |
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| Nearby is a large statue of William Wallace, one of Scotland's many romanticised historical figures. |
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| The tale The Dream of Macsen Wledig is a romanticised story about the Roman emperor Magnus Maximus, called Macsen Wledig in Welsh. |
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| Alternatively, they may instead be admired and romanticised as noble savages. |
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| The Slavophile movement, which romanticised Russia's native traditions Tolstoy's Natasha again borrowed massively from German romantic nationalism. |
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| The international craze for tartan, and for idealising a romanticised Highlands, was set off by the Ossian cycle, and further popularised by the works of Walter Scott. |
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| Economist Peter Leeson believes that pirates were generally shrewd businessmen, far removed from the modern, romanticised view of them as murderous tyrants. |
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| James Logan's romanticised work The Scottish Gael, published in 1831, was one such publication which led the Scottish tartan industry to invent clan tartans. |
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| Not as tricky as it sounded, though my result is pompous, Romanticised and riddlingly obscure. |
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