glamorize , also: glamorise BrE , also: glamourize

We're not trying to glamorize what the players are doing.

"At the moment, the media seem to glamorize everything," she said.

And he glamorized it himself, which is the sad thing.

If they feel that drug use or drinking is being glamorized, they'll have a problem with it.

"The women's wear industry has been really glamorized," he said.

At times, these films touch up and glamorize their subjects.

"There is an attempt to look at the 60's and glamorize them," he said.

Is it the very nature of movies to glamorize such extreme behavior?

Fashion is out to glamorize typing, too, of a sort.

Because the sound is not glamorized, phrasing becomes more important.

I've always loved all those old movies that glamorize smoking.

The filmmakers also did not want to glamorize the killer or tell the story through his eyes.

And some of them glamorize what a lobbyist job is going to be like."

When she'd thought about getting a job before this, she'd always glamorized working.

Violence and aggressive behaviour are too often glamorized in the film world.

"How come he was never glamorized by the newspapers or old pulp magazines?"

She warned me not to judge her or glamorize her.

The media and the tech blogs glamorize businesses that act big.

It is also promoted, glamorized and normalized through popular media.

The award helped glamorize a category whose films are rarely seen.

Other scenes glamorized high speed pursuits and running from cops.

It warns, too, against the temptation to glamorize the Shakers.

Included are many of the unusual spectator sports that the Olympics has glamorized.

American culture, especially youth culture, has always glamorized urban violence, black or white.

False stereotypes glamorise it with the use of violence and thrill.

I was tired of all the conversations I had had that day and wanted to glamorise my life.

This exhibition set out to glamorise convicted felons who have committed heinous crimes.

They are the bored imitators who glamorise violence and look to the controlling sociopath to fill their time.

Critically acclaimed and yet not even shortlisted, one suspects its absence merely confirms the old theory that Hollywood only likes mobsters when it can glamorise them.

I didn't want it to be unrealistic or disrespectful to people who suffer from the illness and I didn't want to glamorise it, either.

Some bands also glamorise the act in their songs, with Anthrax being an example, while others have voiced protests against it, such as The Smashing Pumpkins.

The frontman for the rave band has denied that the song, Ebeneezer Goode, is another name for ecstasy and that the lyrics glamorise the drug.

There was no attempt to glamorise her visually but by words and performance she really did become that desirable lady, one who would indeed swim naked with a Greek boatman.

Interviews with active or convicted criminals must not glamorise wrongdoing, celebrate the flouting of the judicial process or reveal the detail that would enable a crime to be copied.

The Youth Justice Board (YJB) said the word should not be over-used because it can glamorise what would otherwise be relatively minor anti-social behaviour.

The director told me he had shot the film in black and white because of all the blood there is in the film, and because he did not want to glamorise the violence.

The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorise the lives of the criminals they portrayed.

To glamorise the whole thing (the car obviously could not be kept at the camp), it was kept in some out-of-the-way garage, possibly in Aston Clinton, which was the nearest village to the camp at Halton.

As we packed up the next morning after a 15km hike up Van Heyningen's Pass and a dip in the river, we made a list of all the things we could invest in to glamorise our camping experience.

Many of the applicants who had looked suitable had been rejected and I deduced that I had been selected because I had not tried to glamorise my life history, and because I was medically and physically fit.

Since his release, and inspired by a television programme he saw inside about an ex-con in Glasgow talking to schoolchildren about jail, Young has used his experiences of prison life to steer young people who may idealise and glamorise the criminal lifestyle towards a more fulfilling existence.