heroicize

Among them are several seated male figures, who are depicted with a thrilling refusal to heroicize their body language.

These Instagram images fail to heroicize but they try to normalize—even humanize.

Duelist�s hyper-romantic impulses and lush symphonic music, plus the backlighting, the stately swordplay, the fat snowflakes, not to mention more slo-mo shots than in a Wong Kar-wai retrospective � all these effects heroicize the enterprise, making it something to gaze upon but not enter into.