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as idealized and romanticized as a Disney cartoon
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...we idealize youth and sexiness but recoil if our young want to be sexy. (source)
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She idealizes her boyfriend
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Idealized notions each had of the other quickly shatter.† (source)
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It's not idealized or humanized.† (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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When I see an unreal, idealized setting such as this, I generally want to know who's in charge.† (source)
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We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.† (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)overidealization = to excessively portray as idealstandard 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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