idealize

Historian Quinn Slobodian joins Felix Salmon to discuss the tech billionaires who idealize a world without democracy.

From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2025

I know “quiet” is loaded — a synonym for normalcy, or what we idealize as normal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2023

“What’s important is to not make a myth or idealize anyone, including our founder. If we made a myth out of him, we were wrong,” she said.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 28, 2023

“They idealize a world where the right kinds of people participate,” Perry said.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2022

Many, including Enrique, begin to idealize their mothers.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

Called "splitting," Behr defined this as "the person devalues and idealizes you or others."

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2023

Nora idealizes Edmund’s “perfect” life — attending an elite school, working at high-paying tech jobs, living away from home — without realizing that he’s as unhappy as she is.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2021

Unlike the critic George Saintsbury, who looked to 18th-century literature for “repose and refreshment,” Damrosch never idealizes or whitewashes.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 17, 2019

Though loneliness can be devastating, the contention that our society is suffering from an epidemic of loneliness not only idealizes relationships of the past but also oversimplifies what it would actually take to combat it.

From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2018

Just as he idealizes Caroline, he paints the Loyers as the perfect mother and daughter.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

In an idealized plasma containing only pure fusion fuel, the Cordey saddle occurs at approximately Q = 5.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

We would like to leave no moment uncaptured, would like to at least try to become pearly, hairless, omniscient idealized beings, even if this desire lurks somewhere beneath what we’d consciously admit.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

Worried about its future and often nostalgic for an idealized past, it's fair to say that much of America saw itself in Dolly Parton.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Thatched-roof houses appeared in glossy renderings, selling an idealized vision of life along this stretch of the Atlantic coast, just over an hour south of Lisbon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Over the next several months, as it often happens, I managed to erase the story’s flaws from my memory, taking pride in a shadowy, idealized recollection of its virtues.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

This verdict is in keeping with the tenor of the last 50 years of classical scholarship, which has moved past—perhaps too far past—any idealizing visions of Pericles and Athens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

By stigmatizing high art and idealizing popular taste, they claim to be striking a blow for true democracy — and not just pandering, as advertisers, politicians and the media do as a matter of course.

From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2021

As Eloise gets pulled more into Sandie’s life, things get progressively darker, and the film becomes a cautionary tale about the dangers of idealizing a time and place, and about female rage.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2021

Nor should any of this be read as idealizing the military.

From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2020

Not a lot, but enough to keep a dreamer from idealizing the object of his long fascination.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor