idealization
Example Sentences
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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
Their cultish idealization of him is an addictive drug.
From Salon ● Mar. 26, 2024
Waldstreicher, who teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is known for deeply researched, tightly written studies, which aim to complicate any comforting idealization of the founding.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023
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
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 Hecht, Ben
