idealization
Example Sentences
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Clare, too, receives frequent rhapsodic praise, but even accounting for the narrator’s grief-induced idealization, their relationship strikes me as too perfect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Their cultish idealization of him is an addictive drug.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
This is a young man’s idealization of a dying old man glorifying his final breaths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
As a man who’s always on the right side of history, he manages to embody the idealization of the American spirit while critiquing its difficult reality.
From New York Times ● May 24, 2023
It may have been merely a young man's fancy, born of a life bare of romance, but I think that idealization was good for me.
From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Bindloss, Harold
