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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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