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Only in the last 100 years has love been romanticized.

Romanticizing the past will not help us understand the present or plan for the future.

I'm not going to romanticize how things were before this started, but life was good.

Also, England was romanticized for me because of my mother.

They knew too much to romanticize the life of the artist.

We need to be looking at the future, and all this place does is romanticize the past.

But for all the war stories the men can share, they do not romanticize the experience.

But perhaps it had always been this way and he was simply romanticizing the past.

No time to romanticize a moment or put things in perspective.

Of course, it is crucial not to romanticize this process.

When she's unhappy in the present, she romanticizes the past.

He does not romanticize life close to nature but instead calls attention to its destruction.

The first fact has led many to romanticize the second."

They'd romanticized his relationship with a woman it turned out had lied to him about who she really was.

"I reflect their lives rather than romanticize them," he said.

None of the events or characters in the story are romanticized.

It is tempting to romanticize the democratic change under way.

I had been romanticizing, hoping that here at least there might be people to understand me.

I think that the white middle class romanticizes the ghetto.

This risk is greater in adolescents who may romanticize death.

Nor does he romanticize himself and his colleagues for their efforts.

It's a far cry from 50 years ago, when - perhaps I am romanticizing?

In recent decades, it has been the Indians' turn to be romanticized.

Please understand me: I'm not trying to romanticize slavery in any way.

Great Neck's geography has made it is easy to romanticize.

But people would rather romanticise her sexuality than acknowledge it.

His main appraisal is the fact that the film in no way attempts to romanticise any of the characters.

When I'm on tour, I always romanticise writing and forget that it's actually very hard.

Not all progress was down to altruistic motives, however we liked to romanticise ourselves.

We don't romanticise it - there could be no fade to black before he drank the poison.

Hull said that Lewis does not "doesn't romanticise it in any way" when committing suicide.

Although some aspects of the novel are quite romantic, I was always very determined not to romanticise the pit or the accident. "

I had relationships with men who were far away, whom I could romanticise but didn't have to actually be emotionally involved with.

"Politicians romanticise the market," says Ball.

Not even Russell could romanticise the inner life of a fish finger, and there was not a deranged nun in sight.

The "reason we purport to hate novelty records", he argued, "is because we continue to romanticise the creative process.

Pontecorvo resisted temptation to romanticise the protagonists.

This study must, of course, be carried out without any ideological prejudices that might demonise or romanticise any particular source of energy.

However the Chartils might romanticise expedience, it remained a death without honour, unheralded and unchallenged.

Tate considered Donna to be more equal to the Doctor because her character did not romanticise him, allowing her to question his morality more easily.

Said also suggests that Sjumandjaja had "fallen in love" with Lono, through whom the director could romanticise his memories of the revolution.

If you're standing on the spot where Marlborough or Wellington unleashed their redcoats you can romanticise the whole business with no one to say you nay.

It was confirmed in 1938 that this legend had no historical basis and seemed to have been fabricated by the rector's children to romanticise their Gothic-style red-brick rectory.

C Map Housed in Macau's most distinguished colonial building, with ceiling fans spinning lazily above, the Military Club is for those who romanticise about days gone by.

In Up The Country, Lawson had criticised "City Bushmen" such as Banjo Paterson who tended to romanticise bush life.

So my question is: what is the silk route nowadays except a way for travel agents to romanticise the ruins of ex-soviet republics and the lands of Turko-Persia?

(We might 'need' someone, cling to them, romanticise them, pity them, idealise them - but we cannot love them unless we love ourselves.)

They tended to romanticise the odd glorious victory, but gloss over or ignore the numerous times that they were ran; Nairn County (pre-season friendly), Forfar, Montrose.

He explained he had no intentions to "romanticise the era", rather he wanted to pay tribute to Brisbane's bands of that period who were not given due recognition in Australia's music industry.

There have been many valiant attempts to romanticise the assumed incessant violence, starting with Sir Walter Scott and continuing to the 21st century farrago of Hexham Old Gaol.