Sentence examples for had idealized from inspiring English sources

"I had idealized something that maybe never was," she concludes, though neither she nor her film seem completely convinced.

In 1926, she came to the United States, which she had idealized as a free nation that valued human achievement.

Mommsen critically examined hitherto unquestioned traditions and rejected the attitude of the Enlightenment, which had idealized the classical age.

I had idealized fantasies of higher education, the idea that somewhere outside my homeland there'd be a place that would take me where I wanted to go".

So the original, wished-for discovery of a simpler way of living, which Catherine had idealized for her grandparents, is not without its ambiguous, messy complications.

Students in a cohort of 64 (21 females, 43 males) were randomly assigned as a student-pair and tasked to mark each other's solutions to three numeric-type problems out of a possible 50, but only one student had idealized solutions.

He has idealized Valentine (Angela Lindvall), the willowy, strapping sex machine who plays Dragonfly.

At a folkloric level, we've idealized being caught off guard by resorting to one of our favorite nostrums.

Dr. Spivey goes on to show how various cultures have idealized the body in different forms of artistic representation.

One can only wonder what effect such an article might have had six months ago on those who have idealized him.

When I was a young candidate for the priesthood at St. Patrick's College in Sydney, Australia, our family doctor said to my mother, "Tom has idealized the Church.