Sample Sentences foridealize (auto-selected)
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The word passion means nothing else to them; and that Higgins could have a passion for phonetics and idealize his mother instead of Eliza, would seem to them absurd and unnatural.† (source)
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It is a foreigner's idealized vision of France, France as it once was, France no more.† (source)
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All I knew was that she idealized the past in a way I can't agree with.† (source)
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It's not idealized or humanized.† (source)
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Over the next several months, as it often happens, I managed to erase the story's flaws from my memory, taking pride in a shadowy, idealized recollection of its virtues.† (source)
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He had never liked Warsaw, and the worse it was for us there the more he longed for and idealized Sosnowiec.† (source)
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As I see it, the battle lines are between the idealized, superficial and insular-minded way of looking at the world (which many schools and mainstream culture impose on our children and the rest of us), and the actual conditions of our lives with all its multiplicity, struggle, shading and nuance.† (source)
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At first Fernanda did not talk about her family, but in time she began to idealize her father.† (source)
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The front, facing the street, was comparatively light; the Watts portrait of father faced the door, a flattered, an idealised picture, up to which father would lead admiring ladies; and pause and contemplate it, with some complacency.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it idealized.
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He himself, the old Harry, had been just such a bourgeois idealization of Goethe, a spiritual champion whose all-too-noble gaze shone with the unction of elevated thought and humanity, until he was almost overcome by his own nobleness of mind!† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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There was in Lily a vein of sentiment, perhaps transmitted from this source, which gave an idealizing touch to her most prosaic purposes.† (source)
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This is an activity that idealizes risktaking; the sport's most celebrated figures have always been those who stick their necks out the farthest and manage to get away with it.† (source)
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He saw himself as a ludicrous figure, acting as a pennyboy for his aunts, a nervous, well-meaning sentimentalist, orating to vulgarians and idealising his own clownish lusts, the pitiable fatuous fellow he had caught a glimpse of in the mirror.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it idealizing.
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He had read of the idealisation that takes place in love, but he saw her exactly as she was.† (source)unconventional spelling: This is the British spelling. Americans spell it idealization.
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do not look shocked: you know better than any of us that marriage is a mantrap baited with simulated accomplishments and delusive idealizations.† (source)
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Interpersonal relationships are usually unstable and intense, and may be characterized by alternation of the extremes of overidealization and devaluation.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overidealization means excessive. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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