glamorize

Verb

Meaning

make glamorous and attractive

interpret romantically

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I think movies glamorize violence, in the sense that they make it in a way that it's either cool or funny. Matthew Vaughn

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night. Beth Ditto

The public is eager for stories of True Cybercrime, and the media is happy to glamorize the subject. But when teenagers take the bait and live out our fantasies for us, we punish them for frightening us too much. Charles Platt

There are a lot of movies about misfits that are quite cool, that kind of glamorize it on some level. I think there are fewer films, certainly with a lady at the center, about the agony of what it's like to feel like you're not accepted, and you're different, and somehow you're weird. Rebecca Hall

His greatest fear, or nightmare, is not to be thought hip or cool, and if to avoid that terrible fate it means that he has to glamorize evil--well, so be it. Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

It's the rich and powerful, by and large, who glamorize immorality, but it's the poor and vulnerable who pay the price. Robert P. George

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