idealize

How To Use idealize In A Sentence

• Yet Walter so idealised the pretty child whom he had found wandering in the rough streets, and so identified her with her innocent gratitude of that night and the simplicity and truth of its expression, that he blushed for himself as a libeller when he argued that she could ever grow proud. Dombey and Son
• The coloured border pattern of geranium or ivy leaf is not one whit better drawn, or more like geraniums and ivy, than the figures are like figures; but you call the geranium leaf idealized -- why don't you call the figures so? The Two Paths
• She was idealized as a martyr's daughter and a symbol of Palestine.
• Here your backdrop is an ultimately idyllic secondary world reconstructed from our myth, folklore and fable (childhood and the past idealised). Of Genres and Sub-Genres
• In taking the nationalistic, idealized and ancient form of the epic and combining it with a narrative of mercantile discovery, Camões embodies early modern epistemological anxiety.
• Moral values at the national level are idealized family values projected onto the nation.
• Girls and young women may experience lowered body satisfaction and self-esteem after viewing idealised images of thinness in magazines, soap operas and music videos.
• It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality.
• In the solvent-permeable and ion- penetrable porous surface layer of the particle, idealized hydrodynamic frictional segments with fixed charges are assumed to distribute at a uniform density.
• Conscious through close observation of nature of changing patterns in the landscape, especially at sunrise and sunset, he found a beauty that was atmospheric and objectively perceived as well as poetic and idealized.