ideality
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Others upped the ideality quotient by trekking into the countryside, through farmlands and forests, down to the sea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023
Lawrence's ideality of the "blood consciousness," Shaffer seems to agree with Freud that man's discontents are the high price of civilization.
From Time Magazine Archive
The silvery sea . . . lazy lagoons. . . endless canals winding through a labyrinth of loveliness . . . unite to make living here almost beyond realness in its ideality.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wanted to sculpt modern life, but in terms of classical ideality; and in this task he was surprisingly successful.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Italians, in particular, glorified beauty,—it is true, somewhat at the expense of spirituality,—and raised themselves aloft to an ideality which reached its perfection in the many representations of the Madonna.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich
She had nothing but actualities to offer in return for the idealities which were Lettice's mental food and drink.
From Name and Fame A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline
We may, perhaps, consider the Grecian gods as mere personifications and idealities, but those of the North are essentially real.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
It is rather a means of universalizing the refinements of the intellect, the substantive idealities of imagination, by enveloping them in an elementary, primitive feeling which they call forth.
From Heart of Man by Woodberry, George Edward
It was the genuine offspring of a young imagination, urged by the "strong necessity" of giving utterance to its bright idealities, the sighings of a heart looking beyond its lowly and lonely destiny.
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Hentz, Caroline Lee
This had been cast in plates having sculptured symbols in high relief of the sublime emblems of Harikar, and portrayed scenes from the idealities and mysteries of Egyplosis.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard
