Word: romanticized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
At one point in the winning new romantic comedy "Chutney Popcorn," Meenu (played by Madhur Jaffrey), the not-so-understanding mother of two squabbling sisters in an Indian-American family, points to the Statue of Liberty and observes "Look - even she's wearing a sari." And that's the way...
The pleasure in watching the Olympic kids on TV was their full-tilt surefootedness. "It was awesome! I was totally psyched!" Sports are what happens years ago, except for the attitude they engender--that one may live in a perpetual state of happy expectation, even at an age when victory...
They enable you to see life as a romantic matter--just as Gatsby did, and America always does. I don't recall a single basketball game I ever played in as a kid. What I do remember is the romantic matter: Saturday-morning practices; walking, loping four blocks to the...
And yet, rising above all that, and above all the disappointment of time and reality, as from the bottom of a swimming pool, is Gatsby still, better than the rest of them, and, I suppose, Bloom too, for whom life remains a romantic matter.
TM: No, no. Not at all. Believe me, I've never been as cocky as Leon is. During high school I had one girlfriend, and she broke up with me to go out with a dude that was in college. My romantic life has been up and down. Even after...