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
Waldstreicher, who teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is known for deeply researched, tightly written studies, which aim to complicate any comforting idealization of the founding.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
However, linguists often point out that the concept of a standard accent is better understood as an idealization rather than a reality.
From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2023
The point lies exactly in the fusion of two elements—in the truth of the passion, the truth of the idealization, and the spontaneity of the artistic form combining them.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
