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
He wanted to sculpt modern life, but in terms of classical ideality; and in this task he was surprisingly successful.
From Time Magazine Archive
The silvery sea . . . lazy lagoons. . . endless canals winding through a labyrinth of loveliness . . . unite to make living here almost beyond realness in its ideality.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lawrence's ideality of the "blood consciousness," Shaffer seems to agree with Freud that man's discontents are the high price of civilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
But with the development of intelligence and the growing ideality of the motives, the ends to which the acts are adjusted cease to be exclusively immediate.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by C. M. Williams
We may, perhaps, consider the Grecian gods as mere personifications and idealities, but those of the North are essentially real.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
It is rather a means of universalizing the refinements of the intellect, the substantive idealities of imagination, by enveloping them in an elementary, primitive feeling which they call forth.
From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry
Esther had dealt a blow to his fastidious idealities.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
It was the genuine offspring of a young imagination, urged by the "strong necessity" of giving utterance to its bright idealities, the sighings of a heart looking beyond its lowly and lonely destiny.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
His metaphysical sense did not spring into life, so that his mind could leap the bars of German expression into sympathy with the idealities of Kant and Hegel.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams
