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
The film’s idealization of a pared-down life might feel dated, but its do-something message is one that never goes out of style.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 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
He was always doing things he felt disinclined to do, as a result of his constant work of idealization.
From Gargoyles by Ben Hecht
