idealized
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We would like to leave no moment uncaptured, would like to at least try to become pearly, hairless, omniscient idealized beings, even if this desire lurks somewhere beneath what we’d consciously admit.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
His recessive Hig needs more charisma so we can care about him as a character, not just an idealized hero.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
Worried about its future and often nostalgic for an idealized past, it's fair to say that much of America saw itself in Dolly Parton.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Thatched-roof houses appeared in glossy renderings, selling an idealized vision of life along this stretch of the Atlantic coast, just over an hour south of Lisbon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Anthropologists formerly idealized band and tribal societies as gentle and nonviolent, because visiting anthropologists observed no murder in a band of 25 people in the course of a three-year study.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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