idealization

Example Sentences

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Their cultish idealization of him is an addictive drug.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2024

That shared soil—this idealization of an imaginary past with greater freedom—creates a way for members and even some entire units to move across this spectrum.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2022

Rubens, raising the temperature of the scene, amplifies the idealization by transforming the almost stately frieze into a blockbuster drama of good supplanting evil.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2021

The sine wave is a smooth, periodic undulation, a mathematical idealization of waves found in nature: energetic seismic waves produced by earthquakes; sonic booms propagating through air; tsunamis spreading across water.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021

As spokesmen of the people these commissioners were concerned with furthering the great idealization of themselves which the people worshipped as their god.

From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben