The artist is said to "idealize" his subject when he represents it as a fairer, nobler, more perfect than it is in reality. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Part of the reason we get disproportionately excited sometimes is because we tend to "idealize" a person in the very beginning. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Care is also required not to idealize the teacher. From Wordnik.com. [Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� 16 Blocks in Opening Oneself to a Spiritual Mentor] Reference
"Most women idealize the men they love, honey-girl.". From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
If you cannot realize your ideal, idealize your real. From Wordnik.com. [Supreme Personality] Reference
Still, Burns doesn't idealize the home front of the 1940s. From Wordnik.com. [War and Remembrance] Reference
The last thing I want to do is idealize state legislatures. From Wordnik.com. [Are You Experienced?] Reference
The fact is that many innocent girls idealize their seducers. From Wordnik.com. [Sex Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English] Reference
But you do not need to idealize a place merely to take action. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Why We Hate and Why We Fight - January 3, 2000] Reference
She told me that many women idealize their relationship partners. From Wordnik.com. [Pam Atherton: Why Some Smart Women Think Palin is a Good Choice] Reference
You idealize her, and are proud of her; and she is worthy of it all. From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
Don't all the diets idealize letting you eat the way you are used to?. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Jarecki: Real Change Trickles Up] Reference
We all have a tendency to idealize an individual when we are hurting. From Wordnik.com. [Mona Ackerman: Taking Responsibility For Yourself (And Your Country)] Reference
You idealize your captures because they are kind of taking care of you. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2009] Reference
You know you were one of those girls I idealize a long time ago anyway. From Wordnik.com. [ronin622 Diary Entry] Reference
I shall idealize mine, and in it I shall sketch you as you appear to me. From Wordnik.com. [Dawn] Reference
But you also don't want to idealize or be blind to issues your child has. From Wordnik.com. [Mona Ackerman: Mean Girls And The Parents Who Love Them] Reference
Sometimes you idealize relationships too much - and end up being let down. From Wordnik.com. [bluemeany Diary Entry] Reference
They wanted to idealize the geographic space in order to want to take action. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Why We Hate and Why We Fight - January 3, 2000] Reference
Do I idealize this teacher or am I moved to reduce him or her to my own level?. From Wordnik.com. [Mariana Caplan, Ph.D.: How to Find a Spiritual Teacher] Reference
People who idealize their mates may be quicker to forgive small transgressions. From Wordnik.com. [How To See The Glass Half Full] Reference
Many women idealize their fathers and are crushed when they fall short of ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Drexler: Fathers: An Instruction Manual -- Who Is This Man? If You Think You Know Dad, Think Harder] Reference
The question was whether he was smart enough to idealize the stupidity of retreat now. From Wordnik.com. [Greylorn] Reference
The world thinks we idealize our friend, and tells us that love is proverbially blind. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
When you live outside of the place where you were born, there is a tendency to idealize it. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Book Finds Hope In Haiti's Rubble] Reference
To the show's credit, Alicia's husband, children, and mother-in-law don't idealize or pity her. From Wordnik.com. [Catie Lazarus: TV Review: The Good Wife Goes to Better Heights] Reference
We are apt to idealize the past; we sigh for a "return to nature," or to the golden age of Greece. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
It's a price you pay when, instead of respecting life, you glorify death and you idealize martyrs. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2002] Reference
Of course, it would be as damaging to idealize the legislative branch as it is to hero-worship a president. From Wordnik.com. [Glenn W. Smith: The Dangerous Framing of Congress as an Inept Community] Reference
It is a familiar criticism of idealists and other young hearts, that it is easy to idealize what one does not know. From Wordnik.com. [The Jesus of History] Reference
And there are fans that are willing to idealize and have a need to idealize the fan (ph) that they are attached to. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2004] Reference
I was so successful that gradually I began to idealize the Moro, weaving around him, not the "might have beens," but the. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old] Reference
We need to be careful not to idealize the man we just elected nor make him a vessel of all our aspirations or our frustrations. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Irwin Kula: The Change We Seek] Reference
French delight to idealize Fénelon an archangel Raphael, affable and mild, as it is to glorify Bossuet a Michael in majesty and power. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The aim seems rather to idealize the life of obscure men, who have achieved merit in applying themselves to the ordinary duties of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920] Reference
When we are young, we develop a tendency to exalt and idealize the common-place phases of life beyond all limits of reason or possibility. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
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