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
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
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 Symonds, John Addington
