Romanticization

By tapping into childhood fantasies and a seemingly golden era, turns the mirror towards us and the media, attacking our romanticization of serial killers with the weapon of realism.

They don’t always get along, as when Jesse pretentiously pokes holes in Céline’s romanticization of a palm reader they encounter.

Yes, the running of the bulls is about bullfighting, and bullfighting, for all its romanticization in Western culture, is a fundamentally cruel, indefensible practice.

Tamar's association with the period of political and military successes and cultural achievements, combined with her role as a female ruler, has led to her idealization and romanticization in Georgian arts and historical memory.

The perceived relaxation and contented nature of the local people and the characterization of the island as a paradise much impressed early European visitors, planting the seed for a romanticization by the West that endures to this day.

This was partly due to a romanticization of the organisation in the post-Stalin period, and also because they provided a useful action/detection template.