Word: romanticized
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All right, all right - RV is no Dumb and Dumber, that masterpiece of the moronic (which also featured the redoubtable Jeff Daniels), but it is also a nicely dishonorable addition to the small but often hilarious tradition of comedies in which the bourgeoisie get their comeuppance while navigating large vehicles...
Once you have done enough awkward talking with a girl while looking at your shoes, your next move should be to ask her on a date, somewhere that is meaningful for both you and her. But while taking a girl to a Red Sox-Yankees game in the third row...
RC: I would discuss with her the emotional and romantic situations in my life, and we’d talk about ways to express that in art, and what ways other artists have expressed that. [Pause] I can’t be too specific, because it involves other peopleâ?...
THC: But I assume you do feel romantic affection for your fiancée? How would you characterize your relationship? Do you have to justify it?
In Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism, essayist Daniel Harris wrote about the tendency for "cute" to veer into a fetishization of helplessness or even the grotesque. Writing about a line of dolls from the toy company Galoob, Harris observed that most cute dolls, were they to...