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ideality

[ahy-dee-al-i-tee] / ˌaɪ diˈæl ɪ ti /




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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

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

He wanted to sculpt modern life, but in terms of classical ideality; and in this task he was surprisingly successful.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Italians, in particular, glorified beauty,—it is true, somewhat at the expense of spirituality,—and raised themselves aloft to an ideality which reached its perfection in the many representations of the Madonna.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine

It was the genuine offspring of a young imagination, urged by the "strong necessity" of giving utterance to its bright idealities, the sighings of a heart looking beyond its lowly and lonely destiny.

From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz

Nothing is uniform to a soul really set on the idealities of art.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard

They say, Love is his own avenger: and perhaps I shall be punished by finding my idealities realised in one who will not care for me.

From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock

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

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


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