idealization
Example Sentences
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Clare, too, receives frequent rhapsodic praise, but even accounting for the narrator’s grief-induced idealization, their relationship strikes me as too perfect.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
This is a young man’s idealization of a dying old man glorifying his final breaths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
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 ● May 24, 2023
But no matter: idealization is a privilege, and all the more so compared to invisibility.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
Its family spirit and idealization of common objects and joys make it a classic which reaches the hearts of boys and girls.
From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by Charles A. (Charles Alexander) McMurry
