Thesaurus / idealize
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Despite being aware that I was prone to cognitive biases, I still idealized Taiwan, ignoring the unbearably hot summers and the concrete buildings stained from countless rainstorms.
AM I STILL CHINESE ENOUGH?VIVIAN HIR ’25FEBRUARY 23, 2022MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWLooking back at the fevered pace of our footprints over the past 175 years, we tend to idealize the modesty of theirs.
HOW WE DRAINED CALIFORNIA DRYMARK ARAXDECEMBER 16, 2021MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIt’s part of the function of a very active imagination, to sort of idealize your world and to think yourself into this romance.
THE MOM WHO STOLE THE BLUEPRINTS FOR THE ATOMIC BOMB (THE FREAKONOMICS RADIO BOOK CLUB EP. 11)SARAH LYALLSEPTEMBER 25, 2021FREAKONOMICSTake note of the characteristics which are peculiar to your model, and use them; do not change them nor idealize them.
THE PAINTER IN OILDANIEL BURLEIGH PARKHURSTOnce settled on the new land, however, immigrants inevitably remember and idealize the home they have left.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGYROBERT E. PARKWhen Dora is married he will idealize her, and assure himself that her marriage is the tragedy of both their lives.
THE MAN BETWEENAMELIA E. BARRLove is their chief motive,they either idealize or degrade it,and of the love we women long for most, they have no conception.
THE SORROWS OF SATANMARIE CORELLIThe bubble of her imagining of Lawson was pricked for the moment by it; it is hard to idealize what another despises.
THE WAYFARERSMARY STEWART CUTTINGWe idealize in fancy because our idealizations in fact are balked.
HUMAN NATURE AND CONDUCTJOHN DEWEYOf course, I elaborate and idealize, but the actual facts are always drawn from real life.
E.P. ROE: REMINISCENCES OF HIS LIFEMARY A. ROEWORDS RELATED TO IDEALIZE
- be delirious
- be moonstruck
- be up in clouds
- brainstorm
- build castles in air
- conceive
- concoct
- cook up
- crave
- create
- daydream
- devise
- envisage
- fancy
- fantasize
- formulate
- hallucinate
- hanker
- hatch
- have a flash
- have a nightmare
- have a notion
- have a vision
- hunger
- idealize
- imagine
- invent
- long
- lust
- make up
- picture
- pine
- search for pot of gold
- sigh
- stargaze
- sublimate
- think
- think up
- thirst
- visualize
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