Romanticized

Of course it’s romanticized from the point of view of a southerner, but that’s nowhere near any “propaganda for the slave system”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tinariwen's lyrics are romantic because they pay homage to their people, their land, their desires and loves; they are not romanticized, which is the difference between a lot of folk music and pop. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Taleban did, at least initially, gain the trust and support of peace-thirsty Afghans, and members of the international community were also 'romanticized' by the Taleban's approach for bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan - although the Taleban's methods for bringing stability included the implementation of a very harsh form of Sharia Law. ❋ Michael Hughes (2010)

The Taleban did, at least initially, gain the trust and support of peace thirsty Afghans, and members of the international community were also 'romanticized' by the Taleban's approach for bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan - although the Taleban's methods for bringing stability included the implementation of a very harsh form of Sharia Law. ❋ Michael Hughes (2010)

You know, the bad boy behavior is kind of romanticized in the tabloid press. ❋ Unknown (2003)

USA Today article on this trend noted, there are also those both inside and outside the Amish community who find these books - particularly when they are written by non-Amish writers like Gray - to be inaccurate or "romanticized" portrayals of a real way of life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In his novels, Burke added, Quarrington "took real characters and made them somehow larger than life, a kind of romanticized version of the people around him." ❋ Unknown (2010)

But I think it’s a serious mistake to take that kind of romanticized counter-history, and simply endorse the mirror image of it; we have to be very careful to look at the facts on the ground, and to disrupt the prevailing narratives where those narratives tend to distort or obscure them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"romanticized" life itself, and not myths, those eternal legends that stray through the highways of the world. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)

It’s still theft, regardless of what kind of romanticized view of piracy people have managed to sell themselves. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He and his family left America to become the first ethnographers of this romanticized culture. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

It is not the simple, sugarcoated filmed rerun of a graphic, romanticized scene. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

Or it could be because of a more romanticized notion of marriage among young people. ❋ Robert D. Putnam (2010)

He converted to Islam when he was 18, and to him it was a faith of languorous government and ethnic diversity, represented by a romanticized view of his native Caucasus and even more so by his time spent in the last gasps of Ottoman Constantinople. ❋ Unknown (2010)