ideality
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Others upped the ideality quotient by trekking into the countryside, through farmlands and forests, down to the sea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
Lawrence's ideality of the "blood consciousness," Shaffer seems to agree with Freud that man's discontents are the high price of civilization.
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He wanted to sculpt modern life, but in terms of classical ideality; and in this task he was surprisingly successful.
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The silvery sea . . . lazy lagoons. . . endless canals winding through a labyrinth of loveliness . . . unite to make living here almost beyond realness in its ideality.
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We are now reaching a stage, however, where science has brought the ideality of the world into the foreground, where it may become as real and objective a material of study as molecules and vibrations.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
She has, the foolish child, the same wild longings, the same idealities that goad me.
From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood
As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
From Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Were it the mere creation of our fancy, it might receive many of those embellishments at our hand with which we scruple not to adorn the shadowy idealities of fiction.
From Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
Between the bitter, despairing, yet fundamentally romantic ratiocinations of Balzac, and the idealities of Goethe and Heine, the poor baker dwelt in the most unreal of worlds.
From The Quest by Isaac Goldberg
Nothing is uniform to a soul really set on the idealities of art.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
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