idealization
Example Sentences
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With "Yoko," Sheff eschews “filtered idealization” in favor of crafting Ono’s biography with all of the artist’s foibles and failures in candid relief.
From Salon
This is a young man’s idealization of a dying old man glorifying his final breaths.
From Los Angeles Times
As a man who’s always on the right side of history, he manages to embody the idealization of the American spirit while critiquing its difficult reality.
From New York Times
Waldstreicher, who teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is known for deeply researched, tightly written studies, which aim to complicate any comforting idealization of the founding.
From New York Times
Such failed attempts at art also echo earlier artistic idealizations of authoritarian leaders.
From Salon
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