idealization
Example Sentences
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“Obsession” has ideas about our age of instant gratification and parasocial idealization fueled by social media that the film never manages to do anything more than wag a finger at.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
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
This is a young man’s idealization of a dying old man glorifying his final breaths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
“There was an idealization and simplification of the problem that started in the economics literature,” Dr. Kopp said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
And he must now be careful not to give the lie to the idealization of himself created partly by him and partly by the activity of logic.
From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht
