How To Use Idealize In A Sentence

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.

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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.
They have thought constantly about each other, but will the real person live up to the idealized image that was burnished into their minds for ten years?
Perhaps because he had been a champion sportsman in Europe, he idealised the athletic male body in his early sculptures.
And Narnia idealises the simple things in life, while the more up-to-date, affluent Harry drools over the latest must-have broomstick, the Nimbus 2000.
War, of course, provided the readiest source for idealized displays of self-sacrifice. The Times Literary Supplement
This reading certainly invites us to look at Timon as an early modern critique of the growing and rapacious power of capitalism, which robs the aristocracy of its idealized form of patriarchy, based upon oligarchic, homosocial bonds.
Man is tempted to live up to woman's idealised conception of himself.
You portray the bucolic aspects of small-town life, and this idealized family, then slowly reveal the dark underside of such a life.
The problem of any classically educated writer's falling in love with Greece was how to reconcile the provincial reality with the idealized images.
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 diagrams in Appendix B assume an idealized listening environment in which every audience member shares the same point of audition.
If anything, it allows for a reverse form of cultural prejudice, through which critics idealize large groups of people they barely understand.
This trope is almost banal: we hate what we idealize -- be it power, fame, wealth -- because what we idealize we know deep down is not worth wanting and so we feel embarrassed and even dirty for wanting it so. Rabbi Irwin Kula: The Roasting Of Weiner And The Public Good
Here the art seems to idealize and ironize the past simultaneously.
Common ground/common problem: Both traditional and new stories are grounded in notions of autonomy and idealized notions of consent. WIPIP at Seton Hall part 3
So I want to treat this as a piece of realism rather than the picturesque tradition, which tends to depict an idealised version of English heritage.
They give idealized realizations of my work in the string quartet medium.
The Magnificat is one such example ... also the mystical poetry contained in the Song of Songs, with its idealized imagery of human love, a sustained metaphor for the nuptial love of Christ the Bridegroom for His Bride (the Church or, according to St. Bernard, the individual soul). Archive 2007-03-01
It was about faith, it was about feminism, it was about a lot of things, but ultimately, we were always showing that marriage was something valuable in a culture that often idealizes it in a spiritually unrealistic way or throws it away as a kind of disposable value, and I think we actually accomplished that. Big Love: A Series Finale Postmortem with Creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer
As we reflect and understand our resistance to a healthy diet, we start to develop a wise mind by learning to accept ourselves right here and now rather than anguishing in the idealized disparity of where we are now and where we want to be in the future. Ronald Alexander, Ph.D.: Mindful Reframing: A Pre-Diet Plan
For Rodney the imaginary hotel was an idealized vision of an elegantly-appointed hotel, aswarm with chic guests.
A formal tank would perhaps owe as much to landscape gardening as to an idealised stream bed.
No real computer possesses greater problem-solving capability than that of Turing's idealized machine.
It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality.
In an idealised society a man is singled out for the intellectual elite. Times, Sunday Times
He tends to idealize his life in the college.
Well-known film actresses often posed prettily in elegant cheongsams against the backdrop of idealized gardens or home settings.
These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. 'Belle de Jour' was produced in 2002/2003.
His figures are neither idealised nor recognisable; they tell no literal story, yet they leave indelible impressions on the viewer.
This idealized history had some effect, if not to stem the immediate social discord permanently, to produce a general desire for a more orderly world.
Thomas Kelly It's easy to idealize the Sadhus or mythologize them. Understanding the Sadhu's Mysteries
Every culture has its own unique Idealised Cognitive Model ( ICM ).
Yet the villagers are not idealized, but portrayed with all their faults and petty hostilities.
However, it is quite possible that there exist idealized solutions that do not lie close, in any sense, to non-idealized ones.
Man is tempted to live up to woman's idealized conception of himself.
Hincmar may have idealised ninth-century consensus politics; but his picture had a basis in reality.
Perceived as gender-neutral, these practices were rooted in old, idealised images of masculinity.
Technology has, it seems, transformed entirely academic discussions concerning idealized computing devices into matters which directly affect all our lives!
Feminist as opposed to macho, subjective as opposed to objective; fetishising celebrity, brands, names, forms of real identity, comment and chat as opposed to fetishising the physical form, idealised beauty and decontextualised pure information. The dilemmas of thinking about porn within a civil liberty perspective « My Liberal Democrat Political Ramblings…
Even the weather is idealized in consistently sunny, warm conditions, unlike typical mountain weather.
I would caution that it is easy to idealise another when you are not living the daily grind with them. Times, Sunday Times
A bold assertion of reality indeed and very far from the idealised approach to love in adventure in another collaboration.
His figures are neither idealised nor recognisable; they tell no literal story, yet they leave indelible impressions on the viewer.
In the depths of romantic love we idealise our partners; they take on unique, mythic qualities. Times, Sunday Times
And finally, all cultures, I suspect, idealize and prettify some forms of sin.
Translated into international relations, this millennia-old discourse represents a tradition that is suffused with a monist political ideology that conceives of world order in fundamentally hierarchical terms, idealizes interstate order as tending toward universal hegemony or actual empire, and lacks a meaningful concept of coequal, legitimate sovereignties pursuant to which states may coexist over the long term in nonhierarchical relationships. Christian Caryl On China: The New York Review Of Books
As Larsen-Freeman and Cameron comment, “In order to address their goal, many lingustis have sought to represent the language system in idealized elegance, often stripped of the disorderliness of what had been called the noisy ‘remainder’ … To do so, they have had to make certain concessions that do not cohere well with the demands of applied linguistics”. X is for X-bar Theory « An A-Z of ELT
Transformational leaders, on the other hand, tend to be idealized, and oriented to change.
We crave for shows that idealize wealth -- MTV's Cribs or Real Housewives of some wealthy neighborhood in America -- just so that we don't have to think about the struggles of poverty in our country. Joel John Roberts: Is Homelessness the Seeds of a Future American Uprising?
There was no sense in destroying their idealized visions of romance.
The Realist movement expounded the idea that art should rebel against the traditional historical, mythological and religious subjects in favour of unidealised scenes of modern life.
It's easy to imagine idealized law schools, places full of vigorous debate.
It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality.
Similarly, the organisation chart is an idealised guide.
After such an idealized process, dandy became the 19th century bourgeois ideology, anti-intellectual image of the most representative.
The artist is said to "idealize" his subject when he represents it as a fairer, nobler, more perfect than it is in reality. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
Beyond some point, the disutility of additional work surely offsets the value, both internal and external, of this work, even in the idealized felicific calculus.
Idealized, regressive myths of a better, more magical time and place are a poor platform for making art.
Moved by what he called "idealized illustrations of Hawaii from the '50s, postcards and Hawaiian shirts," Parisian Joseph Altuzarra sent digital tropical prints down his spring runway against a backdrop of live palm-frond foliage, while Suno, a house that usually sets its compass to Africa where many of its batik fabrics are made, was also taken with alohawear. Endless Summer
What comes to light makes it clear that certain pursuits or individuals you've idealised aren't as perfect as you thought. Times, Sunday Times
I'm not sure I see where the "rosiness" and "idealisation" of his home culture are coming in -- it's his home culture, after all, so he's probably not "idealising" it, the way, say, an American might idealise foreign cultures of which he has limited experience. Qutb's bad hair day.
The film breaks down idealized visions of family and religion, for in this house, they offer not consolation but despair.
These and other documentaries take the shape of his romantic worldview: idealised individuals try to overcome something or make order from chaos.
She idealized her husband after his death
Women were idealised in the home, but homes were often squalid. Times, Sunday Times
Of course the conspiring farmers are idealized and their enemies are diabolized; but all this is so in the saga. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
It may be that the position of her uncle's house (which was her home) at the corner of West Street nearest the barracks, the daily passing of the troops, the constant blowing of trumpet-calls a furlong from her windows, coupled with the fact that she knew nothing of the inner realities of military life, and hence idealized it, had also helped her mind's original bias for thinking men-at-arms the only ones worthy of a woman's heart. A Changed Man; and other tales
Even as Stalin perpetrated crimes against humanity in his own country, Conquest explains, writers, thinkers, and artists in the West idealized and lionized him because the ideology he espoused held an intrinsic appeal for them. Facing Up to Stalin
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.
Perhaps this tendency to idealize the exploited is part of our literary tradition as a whole. Mercy!
We thought Roberta - who was, perhaps, an idealized transgendered person - had the right idea: she retained her core self through the transition.
The idealized space of the pastoral is used to provide a locus amoenus for someone who eventually dominates all oral discourse within it.
The authors are crusaders for hard-nosed research and evaluation in particular, randomized controlled trials, the social science gold standard of anti-poverty programs to inform an idealized donor, foundation program officer or social investor of the future, namely, the perfectly rational decision-maker. Jonathan Lewis: Social Impact Evaluation: Useful? Utopian? (Part 1 of 4)
The problematic move from looking to touching is exemplified in the Western art of the nude where, until comparatively recently, bodies were sanitized, desexualized, and idealized.
The chameleon on a mirror riddle is best kept in idealized form as a thought experiment.
One quite helpful way of understanding social change is to construct simplified, even idealised, pictures of a past community life.
The images, however, did not directly reflect a changing America, but rather gently refracted it through a hazy lens of unironic, idealized nostalgia that today seems absolutely eerie.
They give idealized realizations of my work in the string quartet medium.
As you said, let's not idealize the history of American journalism, but there was a time, as some listeners pointed out, when news wasn't infotainment.
The aim of creative art is to idealize, that is, to portray nature and experience in perfect forms not with the imperfections of visible nature. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing
This body of work idealizes the places I explore throughout Europe as enchanting lands of fantasy and fairy tale: stony and mineral-stained French farmhouses, creaking and battered old windmills from Greece, Spain and Holland, suspended white rabbits leaping through the air, and things that, if just for a moment, turn our dreams of sweet old world romanticism into something precious we can hold and keep. Susan Fogwell: An American Sculptor in Holland
It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality.
Age-old traditions are mixed with digital sci-fi themes; hints of religious ritual merge with almost fetishist fantasies; hyperrealist techniques reinforce idealised stereotypes; and backstreet culture is given the glamour treatment. This week's new exhibitions
I found Bellamy's notions of how society could so easily be remade and then perpetuated in its idealized form more than a little soft-headed (says she, full of twenty-first-century cynicism).
Although these idealized monuments were consecrated to the dead, they addressed the living.
Technology has, it seems, transformed entirely academic discussions concerning idealized computing devices into matters which directly affect all our lives!
In many western societies, an idealized femininity is often identified with refinement, and refinement in turn with the dominant language.
A bold assertion of reality indeed and very far from the idealised approach to love in adventure in another collaboration.
Similarly, the organisation chart is an idealised guide.
Beneath this is an idealized representation of the circuit, and lowest is a gyrator circuit representation.
A real person has to go through so much self-denial to fulfil this idealised image.
Editors sought to represent an idealized femininity in their miscellanies, excluding more challenging poems that threatened the moral code. The Times Literary Supplement
Their preoccupation with beauty suggests an idealised feminine; their tunes are blokeish.
A bold assertion of reality indeed and very far from the idealised approach to love in adventure in another collaboration.
We commence with the idealized freely jointed chain, which may be described exactly and also by several very useful approximations.
People should grow up, accept it, enjoy the sport for what it is and not naively idealise it. Times, Sunday Times
The idealized prototype of a southern Tuscan antimony deposit can be described as an irregular mineralization situated in the upper part of a highly porous limestone unit, usually the Calcare Cavernoso ( "vuggy limestone"), overlain by an impermeable unit, normally a flysch-type rock. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
Reynolds was a great exponent of the idealized portrait typical of the day.
The idealized figures are no longer in the idealized landscape; it was a transitory image. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
For in the degradation of a famous relationship we see our own travails both mirrored and idealised. Times, Sunday Times
Naturalism was one aspect of the wider artifice that expressed the known and unknown world through enhanced, idealized reality.
He has the kind of idealized face that's made to be observed in repose, like he was a painting or a sculpture in cool white marble or something.
As Larsen-Freeman and Cameron comment, “In order to address their goal, many lingustis have sought to represent the language system in idealized elegance, often stripped of the disorderliness of what had been called the noisy ‘remainder’ … To do so, they have had to make certain concessions that do not cohere well with the demands of applied linguistics”. X is for X-bar Theory « An A-Z of ELT
And there was such wisdom here (next qoute), i wonder so often why we idealize speed when so often the healer is slowing down: Sometimes human beings just need to sit still and read something calming. Monday Morning
He used it to illustrate how the romantic poets, including Keats, led that whole lot into the idealized Arthurian legend bit. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
Then I sat back in this clean, well-lighted space, with its idealized fish-camp decor, and felt as pleased with myself as all the practiced trenchermen at surrounding tables.
Continuing to measure idealized final outcomes will not enable us to answer these questions.
Novels may allow us to live vicariously in idealized societies, or they may encourage us to acquire socially beneficial traits. — “Hierarchy in the Library: Egalitarian Dynamics in Victorian Novels,” Evolutionary Psychology Quick Study
Successful women performers thus had to have a demure appearance and restrict their body movements on stage to conform to idealized concepts of womanhood.
People may say that his novels are politicised in that they idealise a time before religious laws dominated the state. Times, Sunday Times
The conflicts about remarrying after widowhood might also stem from our tendency to idealize the institution as the manifestation of true love. The Truth About Grief
The ruin at the left is placed within an idealized landscape that is harmoniously balanced and suffused with a soft, glowing light.
Technology has, it seems, transformed entirely academic discussions concerning idealized computing devices into matters which directly affect all our lives!
Women were idealised in the home, but homes were often squalid. Times, Sunday Times
They created idealized hierarchies that favored their own group over others.
Real crystals exhibit a variety of departures from this idealized structure.
He longs for exactly the kind of life that the town idealizes, with a stable marriage, loving home, and churchgoing respectability. Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout
He tends to idealise his life in the college.
What seems no longer tenable is the romantic, idealized idea of fatherhood once associated with “The Godfather,” where the passionate mutual devotion of fathers and sons seemed completely of a piece with the relentless pursuit of power and destruction of the enemy. They Keep Pulling Us Back In … | PopPolitics.com
My original intention had a practical purpose, if rather idealised. Times, Sunday Times
When he emerges in an idealized landscape of verdant greens, the pristine surface of Luzu Lake mirrors the fleecy cumulus clouds and penetrating blue sky overhead.
By grounding interviews in recent consultation, we sought to minimise generalised or idealised accounts.
They idealized the struggle of a citizen army against the overmighty British and marvelled at the establishment of a republic with a written constitution.
His trademark are idealized women with extremely tall and slender bodies.
In opposition to globalization, these groups counterpose an idealized notion of an earlier period of American capitalism when the national market and national state played a more dominant role in economic life.
The landscape is idealised from Leonardo's studies of nature, portrayed with techniques of sfumato and aerial perspective.
She does idealize the island, at times, particularly as her characters try to replicate island culture within their (often dismal) mainland barrios.
While Deeba remains a bit idealised, she is still a far more realistic and plausible character than the heroes we usually meet in aforementioned tales. China Miéville - Un Lun Dun (Book Review)
But when alive he had been frankly rather idealised, so it was due for a reality check. Times, Sunday Times
What turns a good book into, in my opinion, a great one is that she doesn't idealise her sources. Times, Sunday Times
Most religious painting of the time depicted the Holy family or the saints in a contrived, idealised way, full of piety and grace.
It looks as if the concept of the isolated gene as a unit of selection is an idealized abstraction from reality.
The political culture that is idealized in the writings of Plato and Aristotle is not cosmopolitan.
If the GCMs work well for an idealized parameter say, GMT because they are overfit to that parameter, then the lack of fit to some other equally meaningful parameter would put them under suspicion. Unthreaded #11 « Climate Audit
And then there's The Wire, where "twentysomething" is an epithet in David Simon's idealized Baltimore Sun newsroom. Scott Brown: The Wire and Cloverfield: Bad Weekend for 20-Somethings
At the same time, Shephard neither idealizes the prevailing conditions nor ignores the obstacles faced by Jewish Holocaust survivors in their efforts to forge a destiny for themselves. Menachem Rosensaft: Review: The Long Road Home, The Aftermath of the Second World War
The film is narrated collectively by a group of neighborhood boys, now older, who idolized and idealized the five girls.
The competitive environment, idealized in perfect competition, represents the most efficient structure.
Throughout the years, the idea of ‘punk rock ‘became both idealized and bastardized.’
All too often we, in the West, idealize the 19th century British empire as being some benign club. Gandhian Nonviolence
His elegant, idealized compositions and use of Antique sources epitomize Renaissance manuscript illustration and were an essential element of the finest Florentine production in the decades around 1500.
A bold assertion of reality indeed and very far from the idealised approach to love in adventure in another collaboration.
The symbolic process which it idealizes is still called ‘Algorithm’ in modern mathematics, an everlasting tribute to its immortal founder.
Ever and anon there gleamed across the young mans mind a sense of wonder that he should be walking side by side with the being who had so wrought upon his imagination, whom he had idealized in such hues of terror, in whom he had positively witnessed such manifestations of dreadful attributes, that he should be conversing with Beatrice like a brother, and should find her so human and so maidenlike. Rappaccini’s Daughter
All four men were members of "The Eight," who painted scenes of urban life in the unidealized, brushy style that became known as the Ashcan School, which Whitney championed. Gertrude Whitney's Gambit
One might usefully view the emergence of psychology itself as torn between a science of mental control and objectification, and a utopian attempt to preserve an idealised model of selfhood which is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve or extend through the broadening political population, but which can be installed within the individual at an abstract or theoretical level. Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
In an idealised society a man is singled out for the intellectual elite. Times, Sunday Times
Freeman 1:23–31, who idealizes GW, concludes that he was smitten but that it went no further than that. George Washington’s First War
You have two icons and one is pure and idealized, the other is tainted and dirtied.
In Puerto Santo Tomás, one born-again fisherman adorned his shack with a biblical scene evidently intended to allude to, in idealized fashion, the stalwart men of the village.
Age-old traditions are mixed with digital sci-fi themes; hints of religious ritual merge with almost fetishist fantasies; hyperrealist techniques reinforce idealised stereotypes; and backstreet culture is given the glamour treatment. This week's new exhibitions
Yet the treatment of the subject is perfectly in keeping with the canons of Neoclassicism, with its theatrical grouping of figures, idealised faces, its emphasis on drawing rather than colour and with its smooth and glossy paint surface.
The West Wing is complete fiction, a never-could-happen-in-real-life ride through idealized politics and equally impractical individuals.
There were other religious accessories around the place and, on the walls, idealized renderings of New Testament scenes.
Recalling that from early recorded history the sphere has represented an idealized form of the universe, it is understandable, particularly in light of the late quattrocento "rediscovery" of Plato and Plotinus, that the pearl embodied notions of perfection, unity, and purity in miniature. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
All of us need something to poetize and idealise our life a little - something which we value for more than its use and which is a symbol of our emancipation from the mere materialism and deathly drudgery of daily life. Great Regulars: All of us in India seem to be passing through
There is one great beauty in idealized romance: reading it can make no one worse than he is, while it may help thousands to a cleaner life and higher inspiration than they ever before have known. Gene Stratton-Porter: A Little Story of The Life and Work and Ideals of "The Bird Woman"
Of course we do think first of the King, the magnificent monarch of a glorified or idealized medieval realm.
He does his best here to present Richard and Elise as idealized lovers caught up in a classical tragic romance.
It may be connected with the 19th-century yearning for idealised female innocence and infantine purity. Times, Sunday Times
Last Round is for double string quartet and double bass, written in memory of Piazzolla, and conceived as an idealized version of his keyless accordion, the bandoneon.
The female body imaged in the film is not abstract, generalised or idealised.
On the one hand, there are idealized good men like her father and Palmer.
Obtaining value and creating value are only synonymous in idealized economies, not real ones. Matthew Yglesias » Congress Is Very Important
The formulation is idealised by an elastic-plastic relation that can explain the deformation patterns of inextensible steel reinforcements to that of highly extensible geosynthetics.
Pedants pounce on such tell-tale signs that what purports to be an image of Shakespeare is really an idealised image of the biographer himself.
The facts of life helped me idealise what happened to me. Times, Sunday Times
Thornycroft was thus largely given free rein to devise an idealized image of Anglo-Saxon Englishness in his statue for the millenary commemoration.
And since, even when idealized, nature still remains ˜nature™, it follows according to Jacobi that in practice Fichte's idealism is but a form of materialism. Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
So, growing up, I knew that the Hollywood depiction of Indian life was rather idealized.
Galileo was never able to duplicate the idealized experiment in the laboratory.
I must point out that my account is over-simple and somewhat idealized.
How did your own experience inform the stories that focus on Emma, the little girl in "The Summer Kitchen," who successfully overcomes cancer but wistfully idealizes her life before cancer? A conversation with Alice Hoffman
Protestantism involves a certain straining for an idealized first century Church, as if that was real Christianity and all sects today are merely pale reflections trying and failing to duplicate the first century Church by studying the New Testament and reenacting what they read. How I Became a Sci Fi Catholic, Part 2
The pure office of poetry is ever to idealize.
He used it to illustrate how the romantic poets, including Keats, led that whole lot into the idealized Arthurian legend bit. THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
Although the actual chemical reactions taking place within a battery are very complex, the major cathodic and anodic reactions can be idealized based on a knowledge of the parts of a battery and their electrochemical function.
It usually happens once a month but can be more or less depending upon a woman's own ovulatory cycle. sometimes you can release more than one egg. if you don't get pregnant that cycle then your body will have a period in about a couple of weeks. women with annovulatory cycles don't ovulate but still get their period. women with irregular cycles could have a 14 day cycle and then a 60 day cycle the next time.www. romanceroadshow.com taking charge of your fertility - a book In humans, the period when ovulation occurs is called the ovulatory phase, and it occupies the fourteenth day of an idealized twenty-eight day menstrual cycle. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
This idealized version is most imaginative as a teenager when any fantasy is possible.
The constraint of life makes people be thirsty for returning to the true life, and the idealized artistic creation in Jinyong's novels satisfies people in an aesthetic state.
Inspired by primitivism and American folk art, he painted idealized images of homespun America.
Anyway, the, uh, the premise: man meets woman in idealized, dream-like Switzerland, they fall in love, have kids, and then all of them die. Another 10 Movies to Watch Stoned/High » Scene-Stealers
What comes to light makes it clear that certain pursuits or individuals you've idealised aren't as perfect as you thought. Times, Sunday Times
Most of the bloggers talking about it seem to have assumed that it approaches perfect precision, which actually does set up a paradox at an idealized equilibrium, in that the starving ass, undeniably motivated to eat something, would be unable actually to eat anything because there would be no 'slippage' - randomness, say, or indeterminacy - for acting one way or another. Buridan's Ass
Judeo-Christian, Greek, Renaissance and Enlightenment traditions historicize this link via idealized bodies, technological perfection, ordered space and a host of other tropes for reasoned man, who is good because he is beautiful and beautiful because he is good. ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States
Part of the reason we get disproportionately excited sometimes is because we tend to "idealize" a person in the very beginning. Undefined
They saw in it a haven for traditional values that might, in time, restore their idealized America, now overrun by waves of immigration and noisome industrialization.
It seems that many people living in the West still live in the simple, polarized westerns of their simpler, more idealized childhoods.
These might indeed occur between a man and a woman outside marriage, but putting aside the very limited phenomena of Athenian hetairism, they were too shameful to be idealized. The Task of Social Hygiene
Idealised, geometric plans and an architectural vocabulary drawn from quite different building types - mausolea and monuments - were to preoccupy him.
Inspired by primitivism and American folk art, he painted idealized images of homespun America.
I have invoked Shelley as an epigraph because he identified the dangers of hubris and vanity when desire is exhausted and over-idealized.
His powers of observation did not diminish in his drawings for the Farnese Gallery, which have been described as hyper idealized, classicizing works.
Its business is the intensification of life, to bring home to us its myriad finenesses; it achieves this end by presenting persons passing through the intense experiences which we call passions; and these are conditions of the spirit in which an idealised object encourages, thwarts, or tantalises the seeker, and dejects him utterly if the reality turns out to be less than the ideal. Personality in Literature
Returning to Australia and discovering the inland in a series of visits as a journalist, he idealised the virtues of the bushman.
Ever and anon there gleamed across the young man's mind a sense of wonder that he should be walking side by side with the being who had so wrought upon his imagination, whom he had idealized in such hues of terror, in whom he had positively witnessed such manifestations of dreadful attributes, -- that he should be conversing with Beatrice like a brother, and should find her so human and so maidenlike. Rappaccini's Daughter
In many of his idealized party scenes, the narrator encounters a pop musician who is `trying to get a band together '. MUSIC FOR BOYS
With its ability to fold a mythic idealized past into anticipations of the postwar city and its new social arrangements, the community center was an ideal vehicle for the living memorial.
Most anthropologists would recognize much writing about community in public health as idealized if not mythical.
Frege's primary concern was to construct a system of logic, formulated in an idealized language, which was adequate for mathematical reasoning.
Also adds in idealized, implied consent: we must have consented to those beginnings through a constitution, a marriage contract, an employment relationship, or the like. WIPIP at Seton Hall part 3
The argument of changed circumstances for consideration of the fraud issue is premised on a somewhat idealized view of the legal system, i.e., in theory, a policy holder that is canceled because of alleged fraud should prevail because there is a factual basis for presuming the failure to inform was unintentional. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Just do it
Feminine identity then was based on an idealized image of motherhood and domesticity.
Her paintings and prints show a modern instead of an idealized picture of women.
For the foot-fetichist, on the other hand, the foot or the shoe is not a mere instrument, but a true symbol; the focus of his worship, an idealized object which he is content to contemplate or reverently touch. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
It was hopeless; Adams was too obstreperously real to be idealized. John Adams: The Biography
Stand-ins for the Paramount movie logo, they represent, like the original, an idealised America: solid, strong, historic.
These images expose a budding female sexuality, and call into question an idealized vision of femininity. 'Belle de Jour' was produced in 2002/2003.
We idealise praying as a combination of lofty ideas, expressed in beautiful words, that bring us a deep consolation. Times, Sunday Times
Romantic comedies are sensationalized stories of an idealized world, where everyone is always falling in love, but never falling out of love.
O'Donnell has no hint of the Moral Majority about him but, though uncensorious, he doesn't idealise or try to act the shrink. ' Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com
Patterns that can be measured on laboratory instruments are generally regarded as part of phonetics, whereas phonological patterns tend to be more abstract and idealized.
Gaddafi's rise to power had roots in his belief in pan-Arabism, an idealized vision of a united Arab nation stretching from the Persian Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean.
Daughters idealise their fathers anyway. Times, Sunday Times
The name and registration number of the ship were stenciled near the nose, and a large, idealized picture of a flaming bird in dark reds and oranges wrapped around the forward fuselage.
Infantilise it as the "Inner Child" of the self-help charlatans though, idealise it in a sexually-retarded prepubescence, project that unreturnable infancy onto an unattainable other, and you're asking for the trouble that comes to Barrie's Pan or Sinisalo's Angel. Poland Won, Bad Points Nil
The portrait is idealized on so many different levels it would be difficult to enumerate them.
Beaver Creek village is a facsimile of an idealised Alpine village, with inconveniences such as ice and cattle removed.
Before his letters came to light in 1815, Fronto had been idealized as the wise counsellor of a philosophic emperor; afterwards an exaggerated reaction dismissed him as a futile twaddler.
The romantic thread, developed primarily through art and literature, idealizes family relationships.
The academic tendency which "idealizes" life and shuns earth-scented facts, had, through the decisive influence of Tegnér, been victorious in Essays on Scandinavian Literature
A homegrown classicist, he presented an idealized side of desire that the ancient Greeks would have understood.
These powerful images are a far cry from Scottish artist John Finnie's 1864 idealised Maids of All Work, looking blithe and bonny in crisp cottons.
Cultivate your hunger before you idealize.
At home, womanhood was idealized and sanctified, while women themselves were denied such basic rights of citizenship as the vote.
Notions like falsification, verification, and operationalism seem like gloves that ill-fit the hand of Nature, however fashionable they may appear on the hands of idealized scientists.
It's a set of conceptual "oughts" derived by deduction from an idealized set of conceptual "shalts" that have no absolute standing in empirical human experience. Carry-Over Thread
Not the cuteness exactly, but people generally stumble when trying to make female versions of the ugly humanoids; a certain kind of brutishness fits much more neatly into people's idealized male than idealized female. Ragnarok Musings
As minstrels and troubadours spread his legend across England, the peasantry embraced Robin Hood and his band of outlaws as their heroes just as much as the nobility idealized King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table as their own.
This establishment of the party-state, or "uncivil society" (by contrast with what he identifies as the imagined or idealized "civil society" celebrated by dissident and Western intellectuals at the time), "brought down its own system. 1989!
This idealized version is most imaginative as a teenager when any fantasy is possible.
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.
Harlequin romances idealize traditional male and female gender roles and always have a happy ending.
Many people ignore the fact that the idealised body images that surround them are just that - idealised - and actually unattainable for most of us.
Instead of idealized Madonnas, bambini and saints, Caravaggio painted street people with dirty feet and nails. A Pathbreaker, Imitated Yet Unsurpassed
The painting is clear and frank, far removed from the idealised picture of a woman that might have been expected.
He has part of the diagnosis correct, but idealizes the archaic and impractical Gold Standard. Mike Sandler: Tackling the Debt Ceiling With Carbon-Backed Money
The professions that we idealize and aspire towards deserve a closer look as well.
Man has always idealized
The point of chaos theory is that deterministic predictions are not possible even in idealized situations. close window Plotnitsky, Notes
The film is narrated collectively by a group of neighborhood boys, now older, who idolized and idealized the five girls.

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