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
The silvery sea . . . lazy lagoons. . . endless canals winding through a labyrinth of loveliness . . . unite to make living here almost beyond realness in its ideality.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wanted to sculpt modern life, but in terms of classical ideality; and in this task he was surprisingly successful.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lawrence's ideality of the "blood consciousness," Shaffer seems to agree with Freud that man's discontents are the high price of civilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dewey had always kept in mind the idea that the synthetic activity whereby self-consciousness evolves the ideality of the world must operate through the human organism.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Delton Thomas Howard
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
Were it the mere creation of our fancy, it might receive many of those embellishments at our hand with which we scruple not to adorn the shadowy idealities of fiction.
From Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton
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
She has, the foolish child, the same wild longings, the same idealities that goad me.
From Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale by Ida Glenwood
It is rather a means of universalizing the refinements of the intellect, the substantive idealities of imagination, by enveloping them in an elementary, primitive feeling which they call forth.
From Heart of Man by George Edward Woodberry
