idealisation

And, make no mistake, idealisation is as disempowering as demonisation in its marginalisation; prince on the pedestal of Heaven or prisoner in the pit of Hell, beyond the veil or beyond the pale, both forms of the Paraclete are made safe by rendering them absolutes, positive and negative infinities, off the scale, outside the frame.

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE Hal Duncan 2007

I was going to say... that sounds like some kind of idealisation if I ever saw it :P

Archive Monday: Influx floreta 2009

But the true "idealisation" and the first business of the poet is a

Poetry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

The brand new GI-BRONCH Mentor combines a practical with a physical to create a idealisation precision solution for flexible bronchoscopy.

Simbionix First Procedure Rehearsal Studio(TM) Training Workshop admin 2009

The brand new GI-BRONCH Mentor combines a practical with a physical to create a idealisation precision solution for flexible bronchoscopy.

Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

However, I am also critical of unbalanced, inflammatory and obsessive idealisation of Israel, of the kind that is rife in the polities of various Western countries including Australia and the United States.

Global Voices in English » Australians divided by Durban II boycott 2009

The Italian Renaissance's idealisation of classical culture had entered Britain during the 16th century; by the early 18th century, not to be a classicist was almost an act of blasphemy.

British architecture: Georgian 2011

It's not a bad way to spend a Tuesday lunchtime, in a rehearsal room in Clapham High Street, south London, listening to Simon Russell Beale expound on centaurs, Little Nell and the idealisation of childhood, modern Pimlico, 19th-century German symphonic music, his benign attitude to errant theatregoers with mobiles ( "Their own mortification is their punishment") and murder.

Simon Russell Beale: 'I believe passionately in live theatre' 2010

Their project has been to overthrow the 18th-century Romantic idealisation of childhood in art, which fetishised children for what they were not: not sexual, not knowing, not polluted by adult experience, and, in so doing, to challenge the viewers 'interior sense of what childhood ought to look like.

Our image of children rests on who takes the picture 2010

Interwar feminism rejected the philanthropic 'tea-drinking' culture represented by Parren and the women of the Lyceum, their idealisation of folk arts and crafts for their perceived ethnic authenticity and supposed embodiment of true Greek femininity.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008