Sentence examples for idealize from inspiring English sources

To motivate idealization, consider how the public justification fares if it declines to idealize, or endorses justificatory populism.

Like Sallust, Livy was inclined to idealize the severe virtues of republican Rome.

But Velázquez has characteristically made no attempt to disguise or idealize his model, and his superbly painted Venus is exceptional for his time as a lifelike portrayal of a living nude woman.

The aim of his painting was not, as previous schools had maintained, to embellish or idealize reality but to reproduce it accurately.

The major faults of Megasthenes' work were mistakes in details, an uncritical acceptance of Indian folklore, and a tendency to idealize Indian culture by the standards of Greek philosophy.

Castles themselves housed many men but few women, and poets, wishing to idealize physical passion, looked beyond the marriage state.

Some said that a cohort of young males in Iraq and Syria are already coming of age immersed in the group's propaganda and ideology, and that a generation of children was being raised to idealize its masked militants.

Lighting from behind tends to idealize a subject and give it an ethereal quality.

The tendency of the early Greek and Roman artists to idealize their subjects throws doubt, however, upon the accuracy of these reproductions.

And I also have a good deal of fellow-feeling for the kind of hatred of fiction that, like Roland Barthes's prosecutorial ruthlessness, is really a kind of inverted love (in which you kill what you dislike in order to save what you idealize).

You are as easy about your road as though you were 'running on rails.' " Now that we have been conditioned, by experience or Kerouac, to idealize the open road, it may seem quaint that the dream, in those early days, was to replicate the surrender and effortlessness of train travel, where you didn't have to navigate at all.