idealization

Example Sentences

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Their cultish idealization of him is an addictive drug.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2024

As a man who’s always on the right side of history, he manages to embody the idealization of the American spirit while critiquing its difficult reality.

From New York Times • May 24, 2023

That shared soil—this idealization of an imaginary past with greater freedom—creates a way for members and even some entire units to move across this spectrum.

From Scientific American • Jun. 16, 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

This fact is nothing against idealism taken as a moral energy, as a faculty of idealization and a habit of living in the familiar presence of an image of what would, in everything, be best.

From Three Philosophical Poets Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe by Santayana, George