ideality
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Others upped the ideality quotient by trekking into the countryside, through farmlands and forests, down to the sea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
He wanted to sculpt modern life, but in terms of classical ideality; and in this task he was surprisingly successful.
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The silvery sea . . . lazy lagoons. . . endless canals winding through a labyrinth of loveliness . . . unite to make living here almost beyond realness in its ideality.
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Lawrence's ideality of the "blood consciousness," Shaffer seems to agree with Freud that man's discontents are the high price of civilization.
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Shakspeare gives us the England of the 16th century, with the added qualities of beauty, ideality, and order.
From The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature by Frank Parsons
She had nothing but actualities to offer in return for the idealities which were Lettice's mental food and drink.
From Name and Fame A Novel by Adeline Sergeant
As it had grown too dusky without, to see the sign, and as it had not grown light enough within to see the picture, Mr. Gradgrind and Mr. Bounderby received no offence from these idealities.
From Hard Times by Charles Dickens
When the senses fall away, it is left, imperishable denizen of its own appropriate world of idealities.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
This had been cast in plates having sculptured symbols in high relief of the sublime emblems of Harikar, and portrayed scenes from the idealities and mysteries of Egyplosis.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw
His metaphysical sense did not spring into life, so that his mind could leap the bars of German expression into sympathy with the idealities of Kant and Hegel.
From The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams