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
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
Whether it’s because they harmonize adoring idealization with the shapes and textures of real women or because of Modigliani’s almost uncanny ability to evoke actual sensation, I can’t say.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
It does give a potency to the stories, otherwise hardly conceivable; and it adds to truth of character the allurement of music and picture, and the idealization of a magnified suggestiveness.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
