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

However, linguists often point out that the concept of a standard accent is better understood as an idealization rather than a reality.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 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 the production, with set and lighting design by the French wizard Willy Cessa, is less about sensory overload than theatrical idealization.

From New York Times • Sep. 24, 2021

It does give a potency to the stories, otherwise hardly conceivable; and it adds to truth of character the allurement of music and picture, and the idealization of a magnified suggestiveness.

From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.