idealization

Example Sentences

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Such failed attempts at art also echo earlier artistic idealizations of authoritarian leaders.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2023

To a degree, the same can be said of most theoretical models, but this one makes idealizations that are not at all innocent, these authors say.

From Scientific American • Aug. 20, 2022

Rogue Machine’s “Ready, Steady, Yeti, Go,” has no yeti, but a storyline that looks at “the ugly truths behind nostalgic idealizations of America in the 1960s,” writes Margaret Gray.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2019

That cultural liminality allows Ansari to be one of “us,” whoever that entails, and for him to operate not just as a mirror but as a screen for projected idealizations.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2015

They are lofty idealizations of certain virtues and powers of mind.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William