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According to her, it is not a question of romanticizing the past but rather reaffirming Mexican identity.

Certainly there is no romanticizing of drug use in these poems, no exotic allure just beneath the squalor.

He has been much criticised for romanticizing Évariste Galois.

He is credited with romanticizing trap shooting and he invented the first practical glass ball trap in 1877.

It carries to its ultimate absurdity the fashion for romanticizing gangsters, for even in defeat the public enemy is endowed with grandeur."

At the same time, Balzac accused the Scottish writer of romanticizing history, and tried to distinguish his own work with a more balanced view of human nature.

There is no sentimentality to Ms. McDermott's portrait of the Keane family, no romanticizing of their story.

A humorous new campaign for Chock Full o' Nuts, for instance, romances the coffee drinker by romanticizing the coffee bean.

For Powers, going home again uncovers a collective romanticizing of Hannibal that matches a selective reading of Twain, one that blots out darker memories.

Though Rosie's and Henry's way of life was hard, and we shouldn't go too far in romanticizing it, their story helps us put the contemporary time bind in perspective.

In addition, the late 1800s saw the last of the American Indian Wars, thus romanticizing the Native Americans and their cultures, which, in most accounts, included expert archery.

Isserman has also criticized the new Students for a Democratic Society for romanticizing the leadership of the Weatherman faction of the old SDS.

Written on the eve of the 20th century, "When We Dead Awaken" is almost embarrassing nearly 100 years later in its unabashed romanticizing of the aging artist questioning his life.

The New York Times praised the film and especially Khan's performance, saying "Without romanticizing Paan Singh Tomar, he shows his basic honesty and gives him real depth.

And of course "Off-Key" runs smack into the pitfall of romanticizing the impaired - an old tendency of playwrights long before the "Forrest Gump" syndrome - as against the villainous establishment.

But those same westerns are part of a selective romanticizing of the supposed old ways, which in retrospect seem to have constituted a life not only more brutal but more vivid, more passionate, more satisfying.

INSTEAD of romanticizing the homeless or vilifying the Amtrak officials who evicted them, the film reminds us that the people on the street - or under it - want nothing so much as a home.

Aside from some blatant romanticizing of the hard (and marginally criminal) lives of travelers like Biddy, this brave, bold woman makes a worthy folk hero for the Irish subculture that Gill views with such sympathy.

"It was really an attempt at historicism - a desperate gasp at historicism," Mr. Cloepfil said, as if Mr. Stern were bent on romanticizing the recent past, as opposed to rethinking it.

Some of these concerns are legitimate - we are certainly not living at a cultural or esthetic high point - but beneath them lurks a familiar romanticizing of the world as it is imagined to have existed before rapacious capitalism and its ideological handmaiden, individualism, got to it.

This was due in part to his romanticising of his subjects.

But this romanticising of medieval Islamic culture is pretty tiresome.

The song rails against the romanticising of war.

It set out to counter the saccharine romanticising of the Irish literary establishment in its view of peasant life.

In contrast, other nineteenth-century adaptations often expanded the rape scene, romanticising it and turning it into a scene of courtship.

Sometimes I feel the romanticising of natural childbirth is yet another example of the seemingly worldwide conspiracy - aided and abetted by many women - to make us all feel guilty for not suffering enough.

IFFLEY LOCK, OXFORDSHIRE 'Beware of romanticising the brigade, Weeks.

For many critics its radical social message, its sympathy with the poor and marginalised, its tendency to convey urban life honestly and fairly and its avoidance of romanticising rural life in comparison to urban life makes it the outstanding novel of the Gaelic revival.