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glamorization

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glam·or·ize also glam·our·ize  (glm-rz)
tr.v. glam·or·ized also glam·our·ized, glam·or·iz·ing also glam·our·iz·ing, glam·or·iz·es also glam·our·iz·es
1. To make glamorous: tried to glamorize the bathroom with expensive fixtures.
2. To treat or portray in a romantic manner; idealize or glorify: a show that glamorizes police work.
glamor·i·zation (-r--zshn) n.
glamor·izer n.
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Noun1.glamorization - the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way)
glamorisation, glamourisation, glamourization
beautification - the act of making something more beautiful


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``He wanted the glamorization and, in some sense, the individuality to go away.
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While, for example, most of the artists who worked outside and against the nationalist continuum of Serbia in the '90s avoided dealing directly with the mass-media imagery that enforced the regime's glamorization of violence, the artist and well-known actor Uros Duric chose to directly address and satirize the linked cultures of war and pornography.
The new normal: Tom Holert on contemporary art in Belgrade by Holert, Tom / Artforum International
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