as in to idealize
to represent or think of as better than reality would warrant
a movie that does its best to glamour up the field of archaeology
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California Adventure, at its most idealized, stood for more than an assortment of film properties.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2026 -
Many love songs idealize; here, John Prine and Iris DeMent sweetly rattle off a list of each other’s endearing imperfections.—
Rachel Syme,
New Yorker,
13 Feb. 2026
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By night, the scene softens with storm lanterns lit by hotel staff, who also patrol the premises.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Mar. 2026
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To be more sensitive to modern audiences, O’Brien said that Howl’s revival would take fewer song requests while softening the onstage comedy bits, adding that its modern music and food menu of wings and flatbreads would also drive the bar’s success.—
Phillip Valys,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Mar. 2026
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The song was seen as glamorizing Nazi ideology, antisemitism and Hitler.—
Kevin Dolak,
HollywoodReporter,
26 Jan. 2026
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Often, fires are depicted in an overly dramatic or glamorized way, but each home represents a person’s life.—
TIME Photo Department,
Time,
23 Dec. 2025
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In the fight to save Wikie and Keijo, the idea of a sanctuary is the enemy of the existing marine park — both options are still captivity, yet one is romanticized and one vilified — and more importantly one form is a fantasy, the other a reality.—
Valerie Greene,
The Orlando Sentinel,
14 Mar. 2026
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While the rest of the world romanticizes drifting in Japan, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has had its fill of smoky skids.—
Caleb Jacobs,
The Drive,
4 Mar. 2026
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As with so many of his generation, Adebayo, 28, grew up idolizing the late Bryant.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
11 Mar. 2026
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That combination of down-home tradition and larger-than-life ambition makes Fuerza Regida the type of band young Mexican boys idolize.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Glamour (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glamour%20%28up%29. Accessed 16 Mar. 2026.
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