"There's a romanticizing the era of the 50s," Alverson said.
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Can't we appreciate the horse and buggy without romanticizing it?
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Everyone's reading books on organic food and it's romanticizing farming.
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But there is no point in romanticizing the Moscow-Washington dynamic.
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"You're romanticizing suicide and that's so messed up," one tweeter posted.
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How do you look back on older times without romanticizing it?
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As for romanticizing depression, I wish I had that kind of power.
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For generations, writers have warned about romanticizing the lives of the poor.
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There's a risk of over-romanticizing work that's demanding and occasionally fatal.
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Romanticizing is fun, but make sure you're also grounded in facts and figures.
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They were romanticizing women and trying to make women powerful and empower them.
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Hundreds of Sunni youths from Tripoli, romanticizing its mission, have joined its ranks.
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And, as with monks and children, people are romanticizing my phone-free life.
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So this is a video romanticizing about a special night out together — just us.
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More than anything, it's Musgraves's direct approach to celebrating nonconformity — rather than romanticizing tradition.
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Or maybe I'd been romanticizing my ability to "heal" them with the right book.
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Indeed, all the crowing about priceless love serves as a way of romanticizing exploitation.
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Or at least romanticizing the resources that were at the nation's disposal before its collapse.
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I could be romanticizing; I realize how easy that is to do with people online.
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There's no tip-toeing around depression and addiction; there's no romanticizing or demonizing them, either.
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How do we critique the idea of inevitable, upward progress without overly romanticizing the past?
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Was that just him going out in a blaze of glory, or am I romanticizing?
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The question is whether the sheer volume of coverage risks somehow romanticizing these infamous figures.
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Aside from weapons, Putin's speech was heavy on romanticizing the glory days of the Soviet Union.
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Then I think, I'm probably just romanticizing that, and that was probably really boring, pretty unpleasant.
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But that doesn't stop us nerds from romanticizing one of the coolest proto-computers ever made.
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If Zombie Formalism tended toward minimalism, Like Art is maximalist: bright colors, attention-grabbing, and romanticizing.
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Moreover, romanticizing the pursuit of the pure "life of the mind" risks alienating working-class students.
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Far from romanticizing the American expat community, Poirier gives us some unflattering portraits of visiting writers.
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"These plantations should not be romanticizing the history of what actually took place there," she said.
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They're romanticizing an era when Charlie Brown was already complaining that Christmas had gotten too commercial.
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Critics like Roxane Gay and others call this "slavery fan fiction" or argue that it's "romanticizing" slavery.
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Why do white people insist on romanticizing my Black female ancestors experiences with white men during slavery?
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My plea isn't a partisan one, nor am I romanticizing the Democratic Party, which has problems galore.
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That may sound glib, or as if I were romanticizing her struggles with schizophrenia, but I'm not.
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What would you say to people who say we are romanticizing, sensationalizing, or making light of the topic?
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Yes, it's nice that This Is Us is showing the realer aspects of marriage, beyond the "fairytale" romanticizing.
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"They're romanticizing the relationship after there's been distance, and they can no longer see your flaws," she says.
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For the most part, movies and TV have done a hell of a job romanticizing the Big Apple.
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But at what point do we stop romanticizing lost young men and start honoring women with real vision?
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Sarah, you are romanticizing office life far more than any cheesy movie about a co-worker meet-cute.
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But I think we should be careful when we start romanticizing "toughness" — either our children's or our own.
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"Everything that they were saying about plantations — romanticizing a plantation — I totally agree with that 100%," Lauren said.
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Venus might be romantic, but romanticizing the past, present, or future just isn't what it's about in analytical Virgo.
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But if that's the case, romanticizing his love for Cersei in the end did nothing to communicate that effectively.
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Lately, we've had plenty of practice romanticizing the skyrocketing valuations of mythical unicorns that have never actually made money.
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It hammers in the pointlessness of excessive, stylistic game violence, positing the romanticizing of honor and heroism as masturbatory.
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IF GOLDIN IS best known for romanticizing underground subcultures, there has long been a political subtext to her work.
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The idea was to create a film that felt romantic, without romanticizing the addiction and the violence in it.
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Rovelli isn't the first author guilty of such romanticizing, and I don't want to take him alone to task.
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The end of Judy feels like it's taking the easy way out by romanticizing Garland's addiction for the audience.
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It's more interested in tensions between the desire to know an artist and the dangers of over-romanticizing them.
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It's not the most surprising style approach, considering she's been promoting and celebrating her Hollywood-romanticizing movie La La Land.
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Maybe I'm romanticizing that struggle to learn, and should be more grateful for slick new learning experiences like Swift Playgrounds.
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Though Mr. Junger cautions against romanticizing tribal cultures, he sometimes does exactly that, and in ways that can be annoying.
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I'm not interested in an entranced romanticizing of nature, as was the case in historical Romanticism in art, for example.
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" Alarm that "more of our fellow citizens seem to be flirting with authoritarianism and romanticizing it as our moral equivalent.
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By focusing on Hollywood, in particular, he avoids hoary "loss of innocence" narratives that risk sanitizing and romanticizing the past.
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And linking it to creativity – but not romanticizing it – helps show that there might be some kind of a silver lining.
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"It's not so much a love story as it is romanticizing self-harm and suicide and toxic relationships," she tells Refinery29.
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It is a way of romanticizing war, which is especially dispiriting when the war in question is the Spanish Civil War.
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You're nostalgic as hell, Cancer, but if you're over-romanticizing the past, cool Aquarius will encourage you to detach from it.
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I think when people say "romanticizing," they're referring to the power of humor to create a little distance from my condition.
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Receiving an extremely high frame rate GIF of a fictional character that you are fictionally romanticizing quite aptly recalls that sensation.
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By romanticizing white people's inherent connection to the land and nature, "blood and soil" also underscores notions of racial purity and nobility.
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Her oeuvre encapsulates Manhattan with an amazed, yet not romanticizing voice perhaps only comparable to that of EB White's Here's New York.
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He explains that we have a wonderful — but sometimes problematic — history of romanticizing personality traits that we often also associate with depression.
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"I like romanticizing the idea of growing up as a boy," said Ms. Ahlbom, who came out as a lesbian in college.
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Zola was also among five major websites that said they would cut back on promoting and romanticizing weddings at former slave plantations.
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Five major websites often used for wedding planning have pledged to cut back on promoting and romanticizing weddings at former slave plantations.
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Far less so is Samuel Morton (champion of the obsolete theory of polygenesis) or Thomas Dixon (author of novels romanticizing Klan violence).
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A desire to avoid romanticizing the landscape is fundamental to the shifts in landscape photography that occurred in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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This desire to avoid romanticizing the landscape is fundamental to the shifts in landscape photography that occurred in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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Again, Arnold isn't interested in romanticizing the situation: Their carnal attraction is nothing more than the hormones of two screwed-up young people.
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Or maybe I'm just romanticizing a bunch of extremely creepy, boring webcams and I should just, like, look out a window or something.
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" Majd added that with Bouazizi, "it's not only the over-romanticizing of the revolutions... it's also about this really significant moment in history.
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In short, The Civil War's use of Ballou's letter is something of a contentious issue, due to its inextricable associations with Burns's historical romanticizing.
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That show about a teenage girl (Katherine Langford) who leaves behind 13 tapes explaining why she ended her life was criticized for romanticizing suicide.
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For Ptonomy there can be no nostalgia — romanticizing your past requires its edges be dulled, impossible when every memory is sharp as a blade.
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One of these times is when people say that I am "romanticizing" mental illness, or that I shouldn't be joking about depression and anxiety.
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Luke Skywalker's arc in The Last Jedi is a perfect example: In the original trilogy he was moralistic, idealistic, and romanticizing the Jedi Order.
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His generation had actually lived in colonized Hong Kong, he said, arguing that young people are ignorantly romanticizing Britain as a paragon of democracy.
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"By romanticizing people who treated human beings as animals, you're playing along with the system as well," an indentured servant (Lisa Pakulski) tells Miranda.
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These stories mask the complexity and humanity of actual people and become their own kind of wall, obscuring truth, demonizing or romanticizing entire populations.
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It raises the question of whether popular culture is overly romanticizing the stark realities of outer space — and all that's involved in living off Earth.
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And Kelly once again proved that she's a lightweight reporter by failing to point out that the couple was describing, and even romanticizing, marital rape.
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I'm really romanticizing what a TV dinner is right now, but there's these delightful little compartments of all these different components that you could have.
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I wonder if I'm romanticizing KBO, a league that underpays most of its players in the name of playing for the love of the sport.
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With society still making sense of 2008's wreckage, have we already gone back to romanticizing well-heeled white men and their fuck-you money?
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They would be alarmed that more and more of our fellow citizens seem to be flirting with authoritarianism and romanticizing it as our moral equivalent.
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But at the same time, with the track over-romanticizing what can only seem like a seriously tumultuous relationship, I also hope it's more abstract.
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There has been a thread of Helen romanticizing her relationship with Noah through the last few episodes that come to a climax in this episode.
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These considerations failed to dampen the firestorm of arguments the video set off about whether Swift was romanticizing colonization and erasing Africans from the African setting.
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Seen out of context, the photographs run the risk of romanticizing the communist leader, in the vein of Che Guevara posters in American college dorm rooms.
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Many viewers have been romanticizing Penn Badgley's stalker character Joe Goldberg, which has made Badgley a new Twitter hero as he calls out fans' problematic fascination.
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If you're into romanticizing carnivals, you're going to flip for GlamGlow's "Let it Glow" holiday collection, and the aptly-named Big Wheel of Sexy in it.
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When asked about how she feels about romanticizing America in her songs considering the current administration, Del Rey discussed how she's become uncomfortable with it all.
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Sick lit has been criticized for "romanticizing" illness, and the trope of the dying girl redeeming a broken man is one that recurs throughout pop culture.
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The last thing I wanted was to replicate that experience, but still I found myself romanticizing unhealthy power dynamics, usually while listening to Lana del Rey.
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Even when I was looking for a proper Coca-Cola crate, it was like $200 on eBay—this is how much people are romanticizing [this culture].
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So I wanted to write this song romanticizing this idea of the American dream and some of these characters coming to realization that it doesn't exist.
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America has a habit of romanticizing the playboy as much as the cowboy, but there is often something untoward about the playboy, unseemly, predatory and broken.
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When Washington flew two bombers close to North Korea's coast recently, a segment of the domestic news media labeled them "swans of death," romanticizing their firepower.
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So, really, our job was to try and create as accurately as possible, a sensitive dialogue around the subject without over-romanticizing the nature of cystic fibrosis.
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The characters long for a sense of community and continuity, which leads to selectively romanticizing the customs of others and the connection to the past they represent.
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It took years to get over my love affair with heroin, years to stop romanticizing our time together, and years to stop participating in countless illicit rendezvous.
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We seem to spend a lot of time romanticizing and exaggerating the differences between the coasts, so yeah, I actually was anticipating some kind of major shift.
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Reagan was inclined to respond to emotional traumas with denial and by romanticizing his life, which, from Nancy's point of view, left him dangerously vulnerable to exploitation.
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"Romanticizing my adventures from crack houses, hanging out with taxi boys, or accumulating sexual fiascos was the key to exorcise myself from all of it," he says.
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"We should not be romanticizing Fidel Castro, who was a ruthless dictator who imprisoned and tortured and had murdered many Cubans," Conway told Bash in a separate interview.
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Bong's sense of class solidarity, which threads through every one of his movies, doesn't involve romanticizing the people on the losing end of an increasingly ruthless economic competition.
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Netflix on Monday did its best to dissuade people from romanticizing serial killer Ted Bundy, whom several people online apparently consider to be attractive because y'all need Jesus.
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Either we continue romanticizing about the bygone days, or we embrace innovation and lead our country down a path of resource security and economic prosperity with solar energy.
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It's music that offers joy and catharsis—not through romanticizing or escapism, but through the power it reclaims by looking the absurdity of modern life in the eye.
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But Previn's interviews become just another layer, another conceit that rehabilitates the image of a disgraced man by romanticizing his relationship and vilifying Mia Farrow as an abuser.
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How two nonprofits took on Amazon and won, hand-clapping games from around the world and wedding websites that promise to stop romanticizing weddings at former slave plantations.
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If you catch yourself romanticizing the past — perhaps thinking about all those great things your ex always did for you — remind yourself of all the bad things, too.
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It's deeply disturbing that 13 Reasons Why's official Twitter account is romanticizing this relationship, especially given the massive number of impressionable teens who are major fans of the show.
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What might sound like cute cosplay for bread nerds also sums up the spirit of "Modernist Bread," a book that demands bakers look into the past without romanticizing it.
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I catch myself romanticizing my family's "legacy," feeling both pride for what they built and regret that the land that defines my family was stolen from the Dakota people.
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The question lingers, however, whether it's possible to spend so much time examining what makes serial killers tick without slipping from natural curiosity into romanticizing them through sheer overexposure.
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Noir has always had a complicated relationship with nostalgia, alternately rejecting the past as a psychological prison and romanticizing it as the lost Eden that predated our fallen present.
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Pinterest and The Knot Worldwide, two major wedding planning websites, are making changes to stop romanticizing plantations, many of which have taken on a new life as wedding venues.
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The grim details are arguably necessary to tell Hannah's story without romanticizing it -- always a danger when dealing with teen suicide -- and help viewers understand why she felt so hopeless.
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For more than a century, "for love of the game" propaganda romanticizing amateurism in NCAA Division I sports has been force-fed to fans, coaches, administrators, and college athletes alike.
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Far from romanticizing this community, his photographs simply offer insight into the lives of LGBTQ individuals, allowing them to present their stories on their own terms to an international audience.
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The great irony is that, by romanticizing the feminine and the erotic, avowed anticapitalists like Baudrillard, Bourdieu and Zizek end up perpetuating one of the founding lies of modern capitalism.
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Somehow, hearing lyrics of his quoted by Bolton, the former national security adviser, and Senator Klobuchar seems to put a romanticizing distance around events that usually have my stomach churning.
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Unfortunately, with comments like these, The Bachelorette falls into the trap of romanticizing the "intensity" of an abusive connection, though it's hardly the first work of pop culture to do so.
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They made me realize that what I was actually craving or romanticizing all these years wasn't the completion of any one specific creative project, but rather to find a creative community.
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In a memoir, "Reunion" (1988), he described himself as a "born-again Middle American" and expressed regret for "romanticizing the Vietnamese" and allowing his antiwar zeal to turn into anti-Americanism.
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We spoke with Åkerlund about the struggles of balancing truth and fiction while trying to make a compelling movie, and the risks of romanticizing fascism at this moment of international strongmen.
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Like the Rachel Dolezal gifted post-racial Green Book after it, BlacKkKlansman felt like another movie romanticizing a deeply racist time for the sake of its award-giving audience—white folks.
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In his "The Joy of Mixology" (originally published in 2003), he meticulously cataloged cocktails and elaborated his occupation's plusses and minuses without romanticizing or disregarding overindulgence by bartenders or their customers.
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Thirsting for the past, accessing it through memories of games and technology, and romanticizing all three— Stories Untold, by Glasgow studio No Code, tactfully dismantles this automatic response to everyday life.
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Living Single was particularly convincing at romanticizing Brooklyn as the site for young adults to grow into full adults because Khadija, Max, Regine and Sinclair were all relatively successful in their fields.
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An adult re-read reveals several characters, including Wilder's mother, saying things like "The only good Indian is a dead Indian," as well as romanticizing themes of American supremacy and manifest destiny.
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Romanticizing entrepreneurship is a common malady — yes, a malady — because successful entrepreneurs are few and far between, and the ones that succeed spectacularly are often set up for it from the start.
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And so when you go from reading a book romanticizing the system of farming, to having to dig a hole in the tropical Sun, the physical labor wears out people pretty hard.
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What happened was that he put at least one fan "on blast" for romanticizing the character — his tweets received as many as 100,000 favorites, the trolls arrived and he tweeted a clarification.
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You're probably thinking I'm romanticizing a cheap dish you can buy at your local dive bar for less than 10 bucks—and make no mistake about it, my friend, I absolutely am.
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Think piece after think piece by turn celebrated Twilight's cultural dominance, mocked its shimmery vampire mythology, and feared the effects that romanticizing its tortured, dysfunctional love story might have on its teen readers.
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It's not interested in examining the complications of relying on travesty and violence to build community, and it's certainly not concerned with what has become a sinister pattern of romanticizing and exploiting resilience.
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When 20-year-old Bekkah came across a tweeted gif of a man scooping a woman up into his arms alongside text romanticizing her small size, she decided to respond by challenging the stereotype.
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For as long as I can remember, I've been guilty of romanticizing brooding, unhealthy male behavior—the drinking, the doomed romances, the nodding acknowledgment of the problems of both—something Scott sang about constantly.
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Just as striking as his call to arm some teachers — "only the best," he tweeted — is his inflated estimate of how many of them are adept with firearms and his romanticizing of that group.
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The international television hit "Fauda," a drama loosely focused on an Israeli undercover counterterrorist team, has been accused of whitewashing the plight of Palestinians in the occupied territories and romanticizing the Israeli security forces.
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"Given the current climate around sexual assault and allegations that become more public each day, in showcasing this work for the masses, The Met is romanticizing voyeurism and the objectification of children," it reads.
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I kept telling myself, "I don't want to be part of that"—putting a woman on a pedestal of beauty, artifice, and romanticizing how women can create life (although, Hmm, well it's hard not to...) .
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The pitfalls of romanticizing a decade known for culinary mediocrity aside, you can manage to have a good time if you order your drinks from the upstairs bar, where they are made with greater care.
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Others … I don't know if the word "romanticizing" is exactly right, but just this idea that people want to watch shows about white-collar lawyers, even though the friends they have who are lawyers are miserable.
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This is the premise of From Lagos, a traveling dinner series created by Tunde Wey that aims to get people talking about pressing matters—beyond just romanticizing about his delicious, homestyle Nigerian food over the dinner table.
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As a former lawyer, I know all too well that no one has ever written a revolutionary ballad romanticizing the heroism of a lawyers association's participation in a series of meetings, and I suspect no one ever will.
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Minervini avoids romanticizing the suffering of his addiction-riddled subjects—especially the central ones, Mark and Lisa, a local dealer and his girlfriend—while still capturing the beauty, darkness, and anger that pervades small-town Louisiana around them.
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Against this tendency, Joyce's exhibition — despite perhaps over-romanticizing the indigenous "spiritual and mystical connection with the land" in its text — does not present these Native artists as environmental saviors, but rather emphasizes their probing inquiries into contested landscapes.
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Monster and villain fandom sometimes seems to blur the line between liking a character who's done bad things but could be rehabilitated by love, intentionally reveling in a kind of BDSM power dynamic, and outright romanticizing an abusive relationship.
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Part of what Linklater is doing here is romanticizing and mythologizing his own collegiate experiences, and all of the elements I've talked about are de rigeur for any college movie, whether it's Revenge of the Nerds or Old School.
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" While others made more conceptual remarks like, "to me it kind of represents how the media is normalizing and romanticizing the idea of self-destruction," and "An individual must devour and destroy oneself to truly know and understand themselves.
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Romanticizing Bush's supposedly charming moments is more than irksome ahistorical blather: It illustrates that in the Trump era, there's no figure so noxious they can't be turned into a Resistance hero and a symbol of a more civil era.
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These are questions that relate to the value of allyship in general — what purpose does it serve, exactly, for a pop star who has built a career on breathlessly romanticizing straight relationships to take on the mantle of gay rights?
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"To have the president of the United States talk about it in a State of the Union message illustrated that, without romanticizing the past, our politics is fundamentally changed from what it was, and in very disturbing ways," Mr. Weber said.
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Art that is about suffering is always at risk of romanticizing that suffering, because the act of telling a story imposes beginnings and middles and ends, not to mention stirring soundtracks, upon experiences that in real life have no such punctuation.
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Goldin's legacy is of capturing a gritty and louche New York in its most intimate moments, of romanticizing lawlessness and unconventionality, and it is that legacy that aided her comeback in the 1990s, when she began to take more commercial pictures.
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Tom Rice, author of "White Robes, Silver Screens: Movies and the Making of the Ku Klux Klan," said American filmmakers have wrestled with how to depict the extravagance and elaborate rituals of the Klan without romanticizing or evading its hyperviolent culture.
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That strategy has paid off: After receiving the letter from Color of Change, Pinterest, The Knot Worldwide, and Brides have since taken down or are in the process of removing references of plantations and language romanticizing them from their websites.
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But it's hard to imagine anyone romanticizing Camille and her darkness — certainly not the way some fans romanticize the darkness of her male TV drama counterparts, the Walter Whites and Rust Cohles and Tony Sopranos that have littered the cable and streaming landscape.
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"Far from romanticizing creativity and the artistic process, Mr. Baumbach's films portray the world of painters, filmmakers and literati as an overcrowded, amoral jungle of viperish entitled narcissists stealing from one another for fame and profit," Stephen Holden wrote in The Times.
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As a Miami resident, I wonder if other cities lend themselves to a narrative that intersects sexuality, myth, and fears of a coming deluge, and I chide myself for romanticizing it, for seeking kernels of those themes in work by Miami artists.
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The other part, the longer notes—one of the things I was really concerned with was I knew I wanted to write for strings, and I knew I wanted to write something beautiful, but strings have an automatic way of romanticizing things.
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" On romanticizing mental illness: You hear a lot about the benefits of insanity or whatever — like, Dr. Karen Singh had once told me this Edgar Allan Poe quote: "The question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
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Only "The Death of Klinghoffer," which hasn't been seen in Germany since 2006, lags behind, possibly because of continuing controversy over its politics; a Metropolitan Opera staging in 2014 brought virulent protests that accused the work of romanticizing terrorism and anti-Semitism.
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This month brings a lot of stop-and-go energy that can be incredibly annoying—especially in your partnerships—but you have to get through it to figure out what's really working and what just seems to work because you're romanticizing a situation.
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Other well-coiffed bros have adopted the scene's sappy romanticizing and 100-watt electronics—both of which our masked marauder also uses to single-tear-jerking effect on his breakout hit "Alone"—but few make aesthetic choices as unselfconsciously as he does.
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I ask Drew, Spearin, and Canning if the group can be deemed somewhat of a legacy in their genre—having been at this for over 15 years—because both arts media and millennials romanticizing the joys of their youth and prioritizing nostalgia love legacy narratives.
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Gbenga Akinnagbe, an alumnus of The Wire, plays Larry Brown, a slick dresser who constantly holds the threat of physical violence over Darlene; there is no romanticizing his role in her terror, even as Akinnagbe brings an undercurrent of grief to his verbal lashings.
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But Sayles is clear in his message that romanticizing a lost status quo is disingenuous, particularly as it affects marginalized groups in the US. Yellow Earth is a return to form for Sayles, hitting his sweet spot of historical fiction that is dense and compelling.
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And yet that very act of specifically connecting the past to the human beings who lived in it has gotten Burns in trouble here and there, even causing some to question his breakthrough project, 1990's The Civil War, for too heavily romanticizing the Confederacy.
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Instead of actually honoring tradition, romanticizing the singlet is just nostalgia for an incidental, inconsequential, and not particularly old article of clothing while diminishing the transformative power of the sport for kids who would benefit the most: the kids who are too shy to wear it.
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It's certainly not that I long for a time passed, because I have enough common sense to know that the things I am romanticizing are not any better than the now, but in looking back and seeing that beauty retrospectively, I have hope for a better future.
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" And a student at another university states: "When you teach works like Woody Allen's you're normalizing and romanticizing the culture of abuse he was part of," she said, noting the parallels between accusations against Mr. Allen and the relationships his characters have with younger women in films like "Manhattan.
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It wasn't really Russian, but rather a fantasy of Russia, just as Diaghilev's ballets idealized Russia, proposing not the reality of a country then teetering on the brink of a revolt, but the richness of a czarist past, romanticizing peasants (and serfdom), ignoring the harsh realities of the present.
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Yet Birch's choices, from the 2013 Rolling Stone cover that drew ire for supposedly romanticizing Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to Vanity Fair's 2015 cover introducing the world to Caitlyn Jenner, emit an aura that promises the same longevity in the collective memory as the covers from the 1960s.
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The way women carry burden is singular enough to become mythologized, and if there is any truth to Deutsch's quote — that periods are moments to release repressed feelings — it is that, without romanticizing the very basic process of shedding the uterine lining, there's a sense of renewal that comes with menstruation.
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This straight-ahead genre exercise is decidedly "not tongue-in-cheek," said Jeremy Saulnier, the film's writer and director, who combined his youthful interests in John Carpenter and the brash, underground rock of his local Washington scene into a movie that uses an esoteric music subculture for texture without romanticizing it.
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The fact that you can't pin down, at first glance, how and why Lawson produces the images gives them power and calls into question our romanticizing the still image, our wanting poor black people to go away, and the problematic history of suggesting a single picture can frame an entire culture.
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Richard Florida, a professor at the School of Cities at the University of Toronto and the author of "The New Urban Crisis," cautions against reflexively dismissing these fastidious private developments, and romanticizing New York City's grittier past, even if it was chockablock with authentic "third places" like seedy bars and diners.
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Judging from the number of Blue Hill devotees, it seems that, as much as New Yorkers are creatures of cosmopolitan convenience, we might also, on occasion, wish to play country mouse, romanticizing a relationship to food we did not grow ourselves by cultivating a quiet, pastoral fantasy on the surrounding slabs of concrete.
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The revolution, and Hamilton's life are the narrative subject, but its purpose is not to romanticize real American history: rather, it is to reclaim the narrative of America for people of colour … If you're watching/listening to Hamilton and then going out and romanticizing the real founding fathers/American revolutionaries, you're missing the entire point.
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The book offers no sop to well-meaning, romanticizing white parents: The text pointedly notes that John F. Kennedy was slow to embrace the Civil Rights movement, and the informative back matter states that after the murder of four little girls in a Birmingham church, Martin came to feel more skeptical, as Malcolm X did.
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Then, last week, the discussion hit at the intersection of business, social media, and America's reckoning with its horrific past and its ramifications to this day when the civil rights advocacy group Color of Change successfully pressured Pinterest, the Knot, Zola, and other wedding planning websites to stop promoting and romanticizing plantations as wedding venues.
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This enjoyment — yes, actual typing enjoyment — was increased by the gestures, whether it was swiping away a misspelt word or sliding up and down to scroll through a webpage, the multifunction keyboard works as a coherent part of the phone, rather than a tacked-on nod to the past, at the risk of romanticizing it too much.
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Romanticizing that period, which for some of us doesn't seem all that far away, is very in these days: be it the excellent oral history of New York rock music (some of which ended up on the show's soundtrack) to almost every band from the period having some sort of resurgence in the last couple of years.
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And if he has traveled across a thousand years to two very different cultures — which I am convinced he has — his paintings do not strike me as the least bit nostalgic: he is not romanticizing the past, but has found a way to be in tune with a rapidly disappearing realm, that of nature not despoiled by humankind.
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Kluger's last venture into the history of American journalism was "The Paper," his monumental 1986 autopsy of The New York Herald Tribune, and he brings the same gifts to this more modest book: vivid storytelling built on exacting research, a knack for animating the context and an exquisite sense of balance that honors this country's essential press freedom without romanticizing its champions.
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Christmas past is no longer a time before industrialism or a time before World War II. It's a time when everybody was watching the same thing on TV. So when Hallmark Christmas movies explicitly romanticize Christmas past, they're romanticizing an era of popular entertainment that didn't question for a second that the leads of a romantic comedy would be white, straight, and cis.
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Behaviors that signal a substance abuse relapse: Previous behaviors emerge Shows signs of slipping out of daily routines Romanticizing periods of prior substance abuse Distancing oneself from friends or support groups "If you see someone who's healthy and then all of sudden not showing up for work and [they] look miserable and unhealthy, be there to listen, go for a walk with a friend, suggest professional treatment, bring them to therapy, bring them to an AA meeting, [and] get them to have a hobby," Dr. Kathryn Smerling, a psychotherapist in New York City told Fox News.
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