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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
idealize .
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Examples
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The academic tendency which "idealizes" life and shuns earth-scented facts, had, through the decisive influence of Tegnér, been victorious in
Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871
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Freeman 1:23–31, who idealizes GW, concludes that he was smitten but that it went no further than that.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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He has part of the diagnosis correct, but idealizes the archaic and impractical Gold Standard.
Mike Sandler: Tackling the Debt Ceiling With Carbon-Backed Money Mike Sandler 2011
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This body of work idealizes the places I explore throughout Europe as enchanting lands of fantasy and fairy tale: stony and mineral-stained French farmhouses, creaking and battered old windmills from Greece, Spain and Holland, suspended white rabbits leaping through the air, and things that, if just for a moment, turn our dreams of sweet old world romanticism into something precious we can hold and keep.
Susan Fogwell: An American Sculptor in Holland Susan Fogwell 2011
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He longs for exactly the kind of life that the town idealizes, with a stable marriage, loving home, and churchgoing respectability.
Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout Ilana Teitelbaum 2010
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At the same time, Shephard neither idealizes the prevailing conditions nor ignores the obstacles faced by Jewish Holocaust survivors in their efforts to forge a destiny for themselves.
Menachem Rosensaft: Review: The Long Road Home, The Aftermath of the Second World War Menachem Rosensaft 2011
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It was about faith, it was about feminism, it was about a lot of things, but ultimately, we were always showing that marriage was something valuable in a culture that often idealizes it in a spiritually unrealistic way or throws it away as a kind of disposable value, and I think we actually accomplished that.
Big Love: A Series Finale Postmortem with Creators Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer 2011
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How did your own experience inform the stories that focus on Emma, the little girl in "The Summer Kitchen," who successfully overcomes cancer but wistfully idealizes her life before cancer?
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At the same time, Shephard neither idealizes the prevailing conditions nor ignores the obstacles faced by Jewish Holocaust survivors in their efforts to forge a destiny for themselves.
Menachem Rosensaft: Review: The Long Road Home, The Aftermath of the Second World War Menachem Rosensaft 2011
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He longs for exactly the kind of life that the town idealizes, with a stable marriage, loving home, and churchgoing respectability.
Ilana Teitelbaum: Big Woman, Small Town: "Olive Kitteridge" by Elizabeth Strout Ilana Teitelbaum 2010
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