idealization

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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

The film’s idealization of a pared-down life might feel dated, but its do-something message is one that never goes out of style.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022

Men and women were enthusiastically martyring themselves—passing laws and formulating conventions in opposition to their appetites and desires—in an excited effort to overtake this idealization of themselves.

From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben