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It's a bit of a paradox that the "romanticized" idea of the warfare is one that can be interpreted as dull.

Forget the romanticized image of your cheery teen coming home from an idyllic semester away at school, ready to offer lots of holiday help.

Yet the true nature of that tradition has been often romanticized, exaggerated, or distorted.

In China today, however, the practical reality seems to have a hard time living up to this romanticized ideal.

By the time Marcus Gorman, the novel's narrator, became Jack's lawyer, the era of romanticized gangsters had begun to fade.

Chickens might not be like the romanticized version of extinct birds we'd see in a museum, but they're still birds.

Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools.

I thought it would bring me freedom, and yes, I too romanticized what that reality would be like once I "escaped. "

I want the romanticized version, where we go to lunch and lean across the table and say how much we will miss each other.

Whatever the name, this romanticized version of motherhood takes many forms, secular and sacred.

Getting yourself out of poverty is admirable, said Rowling, "but poverty itself is romanticized only by fools. "

There is also an over-romanticized fantasy of the American dream at the end, spoken by Brian Cox as he drives his son to prison.

Its romanticized heroism had a huge and decisive impact on the young people who grew up with New China.

His earlier novels invoke a romanticized picture of life in the countryside.

Unfortunately, this romanticized and sanitized vision of the economy led most economists to ignore all the things that can go wrong.

Chaucer and Shakespeare romanticized it in their work, and it gained popularity throughout Britain and the rest of Europe.

The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast.

The image you have of me is fanciful and romanticized.

The romanticized notions that so many people have about how brilliant ideas are conceived are keeping them from unleashing their own.

A lot of people here have a romanticized view of communist times and we need to show the unvarnished truth.