Someday I also want my sons to know the real — that he was not just a nice man who wanted us all to love one another, a romanticized vision that threatens to overtake this annual holiday.
In China today, however, the practical reality seems to have a hard time living up to this romanticized ideal.
The age of civil wars and disunity began with the era of the Three Kingdoms (Wei, Shu, and Wu, which had overlapping reigns during the period a.D. 220-80). In later times, fiction and drama greatly romanticized the reputed chivalry of this period.
The romanticized notions that so many people have about how brilliant ideas are conceived are keeping them from unleashing their own.
Like the French and the British, whose industrial societies have deep (if distant) rural roots, the Japanese have long romanticized life in the countryside.
My biological family might not be whom I romanticized them to be and finding such strangers would not instantly conjure love.
The smell of sea salt in the air is a romanticized feature of life along a seacoast.
The designer romanticized the little black dress.
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