idealize

Nearly every story of demonic menace requires a young, helpless woman — or better yet, a girl — as the idealized victim the devil wants to possess.

Films are often supposed to represent the idealized version of the narrative.

TWA is one such semiclassical approach that dates back to the 1970s, but is limited to isolated, idealized quantum systems where no energy is gained or lost.

She maintains a nuanced sense of humanity’s transgressions and innocence, without demonizing or idealizing either side.

In a sense, Sweeney writes Dennis as someone also mourning the death of an idealized situation he thought would fix him.