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
Their cultish idealization of him is an addictive drug.
From Salon • Mar. 26, 2024
Rubens, raising the temperature of the scene, amplifies the idealization by transforming the almost stately frieze into a blockbuster drama of good supplanting evil.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2021
And the production, with set and lighting design by the French wizard Willy Cessa, is less about sensory overload than theatrical idealization.
From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2021
Its idealization of character, its revelation of beauty and power even in distress and downfall, may bring a reassurance that turns pity to exhilaration.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
