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
Their cultish idealization of him is an addictive drug.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
The film’s idealization of a pared-down life might feel dated, but its do-something message is one that never goes out of style.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
Rubens, raising the temperature of the scene, amplifies the idealization by transforming the almost stately frieze into a blockbuster drama of good supplanting evil.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2021
Some idealization there is, by the general confession of unprejudiced men.
From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
