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to think of or portray as ideal (perfect)

as idealized and romanticized as a Disney cartoon

...we idealize youth and sexiness but recoil if our young want to be sexy.
Belinda Luscombe -- Time, 2008, The Truth About Teen Girls -- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1840556,00.html (retrieved 11/03/09)
She idealizes her boyfriend
It's not idealized or humanized.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
Her heel went down, almost without her knowing, on the idealized, dreaming, and predatory face of that Sicilian bandit.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Pauline was like the public: She embraced the idealized image, never grasping Rene's conception of the ordinariness of his action.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
It was depravity with the best of consciences, the idealized apotheosis of a total refusal to obey Western demands for an active life.
Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
White Communists had idealized all Negroes to the extent that they did not see the same Negroes I saw.
Richard Wright -- Black Boy
Their bodies are somewhat idealized: less hairy than they really were, the muscle groups in higher definition, the skin luminous.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.
John Green -- Paper Towns
Don't idealize him, either.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Lucky One
A distinguished grandfather, warmly wrapped in a cozy red bathrobe, taught an idealized blond boy how to use his new gift—a fishing pole.
Greg Mortenson & David Oliver Relin -- Three Cups of Tea
Cristian tended to think in abstract, idealized solutions.
Joshua Davis -- Spare Parts
At first Fernanda did not talk about her family, but in time she began to idealize her father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
The sort of hard-working ranchers long idealized in cowboy myths are the ones most likely to go broke today.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
This child had not only grown, she had become idealized.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
She fed it with fantasies, idealized it, savagely defended it, stripped it of its prosaic truth, and turned it into the kind of love one found in novels.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
It was too easy otherwise to idealize him as a man who fought with God - a Prometheus, a noble victim in a hopeless war.
Graham Greene -- The Power and the Glory
On the radio, the idealized worldof One Man's Family and the just and reassuring tales of The Lone Ranger were runaway hits.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit

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