idealization
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This is part of what makes ’90s-summer idealization so pernicious, says Erika.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 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
Whether it’s because they harmonize adoring idealization with the shapes and textures of real women or because of Modigliani’s almost uncanny ability to evoke actual sensation, I can’t say.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 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
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