idealization
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Idealization, he found, disappeared in favor of the sheer fatigue of his models.
From Time Magazine Archive
Idealization would degenerate into indistinctness, and, by the dulling of our memory, we should dream a world daily more poor and vague.
From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by Santayana, George
Idealization consists in the conception or the intuition of ideals and in the pursuit of them.
From Manhood of Humanity. by Korzybski, Alfred
Henceforth the Imitation theory lived on only in the weakened form of Idealization.
From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen
The confusion arose when the nation found itself attached as if by some gruesome umbilical cord to this crazed Idealization, off with a Tin Sword on its shoulder.
From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben
