I was going to say... that sounds like some kind of idealisation if I ever saw it :P. From Wordnik.com. [Archive Monday: Influx] Reference
But the true "idealisation" and the first business of the poet is a. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry] Reference
A idealisation of community must be fostered and allowed to grow. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-28] Reference
West, such idealisation is easy to understand; and we find not only that. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Art in Ancient Greece] Reference
It might plausibly be urged that by pushing unreality to its extreme you get idealisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
In degree and mode, however, the idealisation varies infinitely in the various kinds of art. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
Infinitely precise laws are an extreme idealisation with no shred of real world justification. From Wordnik.com. [A Self-Creating Universe Based in Teleological Backward Causation] Reference
Public space was not thought to be dangerous then, and this is not just nostalgic idealisation. From Wordnik.com. [The Map That Came to Life] Reference
I see this as a separate issue though -- misrepresentation or, worse still, demonisation/idealisation. From Wordnik.com. [Cultural Appropriation] Reference
Were these tribal customs of the Persians, as doubtless of the Dorians, or is it all a Dorian idealisation?. From Wordnik.com. [Cyropaedia] Reference
Thus restored, he is emotionally ready to embark on another round of idealisation (the Approach-Avoidance Repetition Complex). From Wordnik.com. [The Narcissism of Differences Big and Small] Reference
It should be noted that a quasistatic reversible path is an idealisation that is reachable only in the limit of infinitely slow processes. From Wordnik.com. [Information Processing and Thermodynamic Entropy] Reference
The brand new GI-BRONCH Mentor combines a practical with a physical to create a idealisation precision solution for flexible bronchoscopy. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference
I find the idealisation of mysticism over scientific explanation an odd feature in someone whose 'educational background is in philosophy'. From Wordnik.com. ["Nation" by Terry Pratchett] Reference
Unless it's an idealisation of "Other" it must be bad. From Wordnik.com. [Covenant Zone] Reference
At his time of life idealisation is still not a difficult or a long process. From Wordnik.com. [The Great God Success] Reference
Many strong men are holding to this hope, with steady and splendid idealisation. From Wordnik.com. [Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation] Reference
Now visitors to Branson Missouri have a possibility to try a idealisation Titanic Museum. From Wordnik.com. [Blogbot - forsiden] Reference
Tower of "Childe Rowland," allowing for a little idealisation on the part of the narrator. From Wordnik.com. [English Fairy Tales] Reference
No doubt Isopel is an idealisation of the class; but the class, with all its drawbacks, has. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest] Reference
Product DescriptionAcai Berry Extreme is the idealisation all-natural weight loss and peaceful clean formula. From Wordnik.com. [We Blog A Lot] Reference
After all, saintliness is never a reality; it is always more or less an idealisation of the image by the mirror. From Wordnik.com. [The Saint] Reference
Self-development and self-idealisation as ends in themselves would have struck Diderot as effeminate drolleries. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2)] Reference
But the essence of his system lay in the idealisation of poverty as good in itself and the best of all good things. From Wordnik.com. [The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304] Reference
Emmy's vehemence had thus the temporary effect of creating a fresh reality out of a common idealisation of circumstance. From Wordnik.com. [Nocturne] Reference
Chinese characteristics, -- has become artistically an idealisation of all that is sweet and beautiful in the woman of Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series] Reference
Faith in the probable idealisation of the Calophyllum is justified by reference to the "Prefatory and Other Notes" to the late. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
So that the question as to soliloquy must be one as to the degree of idealisation and the balance of advantages and disadvantages. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth] Reference
I can compare it only in appearance and habit of growth to our Irish, or evergreen, oak, but it is an idealisation of that fine tree. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
But it may be well for us to remember that the era which has recently closed was itself marked by a mad idealisation of all novelties. From Wordnik.com. [Young Adventure, a Book of Poems] Reference
It therefore calms the passions in expressing them, like all idealisation, and tends to make the will conformable with reason and justice. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
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