| This was a romanticized place where masculine types could prove themselves physically and emotionally. |
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| They romanticized aviation and grabbed the headlines with their daring exploits. |
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| The image isn't falsely romanticized, and it includes foreign tourists alongside Indian pilgrims. |
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| But this romanticized image with gentlemanly behavior and chivalry was largely devised by Victorian scholars in the 19th century. |
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| She notes that even in the romanticized 1950s-era of drive-ins, soda fountains and sock hops, many young couples had long-term relationships. |
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| In the same way that families of the past have been romanticized and idealized, so too has family time. |
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| Their exploits and adventures were romanticized in the 10th-century folk-epic of Digenis Akritas. |
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| The painting is a rather romanticized image of an attack on a fort by First Nations people. |
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| The sense of the authoritative voice of the elders, or the rigid black-and-white environment that that child comes into, is not romanticized. |
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| Education sometimes teaches stereotypical or romanticized ideas of cultures. |
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| Yet the true nature of that tradition has been often romanticized, exaggerated, or distorted. |
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| He also recognized that some of his readers might not like what he has written because he has not romanticized the war between Athens and Sparta. |
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| Elizabeth I, the legendary queen who was the inspiration for several films, is at the centre of this romanticized take on the history of England. |
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| Thus we are either romanticized, victimized, or worse, and our reality gets buried and distorted. |
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| I had a very romanticized view of how things would be and I ended up with guys who would cheat on me or lie to me, which was devastating. |
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| We have created a romanticized image that mothers are supposed to be sexless and epitomize the perfect homemaker. |
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| At best they are scenery, urban counterparts of the peasants and Beduin whom Moshe Dayan romanticized in his memoirs. |
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| After watching that scene, you could hardly call the use of heroin in Pulp Fiction romanticized or glamorous. |
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| He points out that in a full scale world war, guerrilla warfare, however romanticized and dramatic, is seldom relevant. |
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| Even in the romanticized days of the Old West, folks were often required to check their guns with the sheriff. |
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| And then I realized the problem with libertarianism, like objectivism and liberalism, was that it required accepting a romanticized view of human nature. |
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| These plays are typical of his work in their use of the moralistic tone of traditional drama, in the rush of their prose, in their boisterousness, and in their mixture of realistic detail with a romanticized plot. |
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| Having no better food for our hungry imaginations, naturally we romanticized our teachers' mental acquirements and surely graded some of them higher than they deserved. |
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| In the first part, Chiquinho's home world is romanticized, which is a dynamic contrast with the second part of the story: São Vicente and the experience of aloneness and sadness. |
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| When not completely irrelevant, traditional literacy texts and illustrations may still be inappropriate because of the romanticized versions of reality they often portray. |
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| Both Avengerland and Curtisland are firmly rooted in an idealized, romanticized version of contemporary Britain. |
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| Although much romanticized by the Left, the Jarrow Crusade marked a deep split in the Labour Party and resulted in no government action. |
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| The myths, legends, and romanticized historical tales of this epic tradition were probably assembled into a continuous story in the early 7th century ce under the last Sāsānian king. |
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| The thievery was boasted about and romanticized until it seemed a kind of heroism. |
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| This type of classification, however, is based on a somewhat romanticized nationalist view of ethnicity and language. |
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| Some may hold a romanticized view of dying at home that can be quickly shattered when the realities of the intensive, 24-hour care requirements surface. |
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| Such chronicles continued to be written in later centuries, sometimes with critical and literary pretensions, as in the case of John Zonaras, or in vaguely romanticized form in verse, as in the case of Constantine Manasses. |
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| Veterans temper the romanticized view of soldiering and warfare and add a level of complexity and humanity that official histories seldom touch upon. |
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| The word Viking was introduced into Modern English during the 18th century, at which point it frequently acquired romanticized heroic overtones. |
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| It is evidently better to base this process on a cultural past, if one exists, since it is far easier to focus on continuity, even with a romanticized past, rather than create a popular culture from nothing. |
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| The word Viking was taken to refer to romanticized, heroic, idealized Norse seafarers and warriors. |
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| The Song of Roland, a highly romanticized account of this battle, would later become one of the most famous chansons de geste of the Middle Ages. |
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| This time period has been greatly romanticized in works such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms. |
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| Consciously or unconsciously, the family of the 1950s has been romanticized as the ideal family form, against which all other permutations of family are often compared and contrasted. |
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| She foolishly thinks the snake is a good-luck-bringing grass snake, an idea she derives from her mother's romanticized memories of Russia. |
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| Here doctors confront diseases that are obscure and vaguely medieval, the triumph over them further romanticized by the sheer bizarreness of the challenge. |
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| Though less famous and romanticized than Atlantic or Caribbean pirates, corsairs in the Mediterranean equaled or outnumbered the former at any given point in history. |
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