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
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
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
“There was an idealization and simplification of the problem that started in the economics literature,” said Robert Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
And he must now be careful not to give the lie to the idealization of himself created partly by him and partly by the activity of logic.
From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht
