This is to "idealise" in the right sense of the word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry] Reference

Men often, perhaps always, idealise what they have not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watts (1817-1904)] Reference

Separate people's minds from their bodies, idealise the mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

To idealise, therefore, is not to be blind, but to be far-seeing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference

I hope never to idealise poetry - it has suffered enough from that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetry] Reference

He said there is no reason to idealise the Maoists or the Communists.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Maoist movement symbolises urban-rural divide'] Reference

If we call it beautiful, then we seek to idealise poverty and coercion.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Herta Müller « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

'Many young people idealise marriage', said researcher Anastasia de Waal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-05-01] Reference

For years the Tories used to idealise the Whitehall system they left behind in May 1997.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Cameron is planning a government of GOATS and Dragons] Reference

German philosophy — the tendency to universalise and idealise the I and consciousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul] Reference

It is my own fault if I idealise a thistle until the thistle and I both think it is a vine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Pottage] Reference

But of course Hollywood is going to idealise and romanticize Chancho Guevara or else it wont be profitable, right?.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Photos of Benicio Del Toro in Steven Soderbergh's Che « FirstShowing.net] Reference

The Mother and the biographer's dilemma Biographers tend to idealise their subjects or portray them as all too human.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference

I am saying that it has been the regrettable role of the modern left to idealise and render heroic those catastrophes.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

You want to overthrow the right of ordinary folks to idealise and support what they regard as ideal and worth supporting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Must we talk about Mary Cheney's pregnancy?] Reference

It would be a mistake to idealise traditional animal husbandry as the standard by which the animal products industry falls short.    From Wordnik.com.  [COETZEE ON ANIMAL RIGHTS] Reference

If our dramatists must idealise at all in representing life, let them idealise upon the positive rather than upon the negative side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference

An illustration of how little Boldrewood was inclined to idealise either his characters or their surroundings is afforded by the account of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Writers] Reference

It was the author's first essay in pure romance, and, with Henry Kingsley, to build character from imagination was always largely, sometimes extravagantly, to idealise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Australian Writers] Reference

He told the Palestinian daily Al Hayat Al Jadida: "We cannot expect a people under occupation to have textbooks which idealise, praise and express love for their occupiers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Daoud Kuttab: Israeli Tourism Maps Annex Palestinian Lands and Omit Palestinian Cities] Reference

It is very easy to allow religious sentimentality to get the better of one and idealise an ancient society in which one does not have to live as the fount of all the virtues.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

I cannot either idealise rebellion or make treason tuneful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Kilgobbin] Reference

Murillo had neither the power nor the desire to idealise his models.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia] Reference

She had begun to idealise Fritz, but how could she go on idealising him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woman with the Fan] Reference

'If you cannot realise your Ideal, you can at least idealise your Real.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Princess in Calico] Reference

And yet, although we know it to be a mere delusion, we all idealise and idolise our childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eric, or Little by Little] Reference

The Athenians killed Socrates, but they produced a Plato to idealise and even to immortalise him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impressions and Comments] Reference

Sargent painted them he would idealise them, would give to them a beauty such as Nature never yet gave to anything.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Green Carnation] Reference

'I do not idealise either the Guard' -- she paused, then went on without taking her eyes from Elmur's face -- 'or the cavalry.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Modern Mercenary] Reference

After generations were inclined to idealise these two reigns, especially the former, and to look upon them as a kind of golden age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Theology] Reference

I suppose that I tended to idealise him; but he certainly seems to me, in retrospect, to have then been invested with a singular charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Altar Fire] Reference