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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

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

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

But I prefer to congratulate them on their emancipation from the ideality of Petrarch's age.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Carlo Gozzi

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

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

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard

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

Still, I can scarcely tell why, he does not complete my idealities.

From Gryll Grange by Thomas Love Peacock

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




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