idealization
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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
“There was an idealization and simplification of the problem that started in the economics literature,” said Robert Kopp, a climate scientist at Rutgers University.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 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
But no matter: idealization is a privilege, and all the more so compared to invisibility.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
Nevertheless, idealization of the past is evil in its consequences.
From A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution by Williams, C. M.
