idealization

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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

That shared soil—this idealization of an imaginary past with greater freedom—creates a way for members and even some entire units to move across this spectrum.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 2022

But no matter: idealization is a privilege, and all the more so compared to invisibility.

From Salon • Oct. 10, 2021

The sine wave is a smooth, periodic undulation, a mathematical idealization of waves found in nature: energetic seismic waves produced by earthquakes; sonic booms propagating through air; tsunamis spreading across water.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2021

The idealization of itself before which the crowd had worshipped became now a Frankenstein.

From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben