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
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
In such a state of society—a state of nature—and in its supreme form, the family, there is no adequate principle which though real shall still give ideality and unity to the self-isolating aspects of life.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
In dressing, she moved about in a mental cloud of many-coloured idealities, which eclipsed all sinister contingencies by its brightness.
From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Esther had dealt a blow to his fastidious idealities.
From The Prisoner by Alice Brown
Between the bitter, despairing, yet fundamentally romantic ratiocinations of Balzac, and the idealities of Goethe and Heine, the poor baker dwelt in the most unreal of worlds.
From The Quest by Isaac Goldberg
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
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
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