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Definition of Glamorizes
1. glamorize [v] - See also: glamorize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glamorizes
Literary usage of Glamorizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Prevention Plus II: Tools for Creating and Sustaining Drug-Free Communities (1994)
"... structure of certain drugs, underground chemists have been able to create what
are called "designer drugs"—a label that incorrectly glamorizes them. ..."
2. Drug Abuse Prevention for the General Population by Severin L. Sorensen (1999)
"This introduction also provides an opportunity to discuss the ways in which the
media glamorizes substance abuse and explore ideas about how to change the ..."
3. Preventing Interpersonal Violence Among Youth: An Introduction to School by William DeJong (1994)
"... taught through example and reinforced by a culture that glamorizes violent
responses to conflict. Conflict itself, with its roots in competition, ..."
4. Fires Across the Water: Transnational Problems in Asia by James Shinn (1998)
"The effect of media coverage cuts both ways. Stephen Flynn complains that the
mass media glamorizes the wealth and power of drug ..."
5. Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities: Poverty, Inequality and edited by Mary Frances Berry (2000)
"... you know, any story that exploits or romanticizes or glamorizes a story, you
will have the impact to be told to the community that watches that medium. ..."
6. Report to Congress on Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing (1997)
"... in which the media could be involved in indirectly helping to reduce nonmarital
childbearing by promoting programming which de-glamorizes nonmarital sex ..."
7. Healthy People: The Surgeon General's Report on Health Promotion & Disease by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"People must make personal lifestyle choices, too, in the context of a society
that glamorizes many hazardous behaviors through advertising and the mass ..."
8. School Safety: Promising Initiatives for Addressing School Violence by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"RCCP officials stated that the major barrier they encountered was struggling to
work within a culture that glamorizes violent responses to conflict. ..."
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