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Definition of Glamorizing
1. glamorize [v] - See also: glamorize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glamorizing
Literary usage of Glamorizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cocaine Use in America: Epidemmiologic and Clinical Perspectives edited by Nicholas J. Kozel, Edgar H. Adams (1996)
"By publicizing and glamorizing the lifestyle of affluent, upper class drug dealers
and the use of cocaine by celebrities and athletes, all forms of mass ..."
2. Youth & Drugs: Society's Mixed Messages edited by Hank Resnik (1994)
"The original language of the bill urged the media to refrain from producing
material glamorizing drugs and to produce materials "which encourage rejection" ..."
3. Parents, Peers and Pot II: Parents in Action by Marsha Manatt (1996)
"The teenagers of Tipton, Indiana listened to the same acid-rock music, watched
the same drug-glamorizing movies, and bought the same double-wide rolling ..."
4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... in England also had the capacity of glamorizing himself —Victor L Albjerg,
Current History, September 1952 When capacity is used to designate volume, ..."
5. Identifying and Responding to New Forms of Drug Abuse: Lessons Learned from by Marcia R. Chaiken (1994)
"Rather than glamorizing ice, the message they conveyed was clear: '"Speed kills,'
and it's back to wreck Uves."73 As discussed in the next chapter, ..."
6. American Vulgar: The Politics of Manipulation Versus the Culture of Awareness by Robert Grudin (2006)
"At the same time that he was diverting mass frustration into hatred towards Jews,
gypsies, and foreigners, he was glamorizing his war machine until it ..."
7. Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movementby Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen by Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen (2002)
"... the heavy burden of having to represent the unity of the nation and reinforce
the national will by way ofa rhetorical glamorizing ofits faded glory. ..."
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