idealization
Example Sentences
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Lots of things get blamed on the ’60s, I think unfairly, and certainly slogans like “Don’t trust anyone over 30” helped feed the idea that the idealisation of youth was the ’60s’ fault.
From Salon • Jul. 3, 2015
Kynaston deprecates the idealisation of traditional working-class communities by sociologists and intellectuals.
From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2013
It is not idealisation of public service to say that the rewards are primarily satisfaction in being useful to people who need our help.
From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2011
It took me ages to unpick: was it an American idealisation of British culture?
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2011
Absence, distance, lent the last touch of idealisation and enchantment to his conception of Lucy.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Zangwill, Israel
