Sentence examples for idealized conceptions from inspiring English sources
"War," he observes, "mocks our idealized conceptions of glory, whether they are genuine and worthy or something less.
One goal, the foundation said, was to burn away idealized conceptions of Mozart — a white-wigged, red-jacketed, romanticized figure — and focus attention on what he might really have looked like.
Onora O'Neill importantly departs from the versions of Kantian constructivism discussed above because she makes no appeal to transcendental arguments and rejects the idealized conceptions of rational agency that are at play in other constructivist theories, such as Kant's, Rawls', and Korsgaard's.
The sad truth is that both writers share an idealized, fairy-tale conception sex -- though, of course, the details differ -- along with a ruthless impulse to shame and stigmatize the men and women who deviate from their scripts.
Rhimes originally idealized the episode at the conception of the drama, while the show remained untitled.
Far from the popular conception of mermaids as idealized, seductive maidens, the Fiji mermaid is more a surgical nightmare than a mythological dream, her wrinkled physique reminiscent of a fossilized baby with reptilian blood.
Rawls' idealized procedure, he tells us, adopts a conception of the person as free and equal, and he emphasizes a similar idea in his interpretation of Kant's moral philosophy (Rawls 1971, §40; Rawls 1980).
Lukas Haas is a good little actor — his shyness is lovely — but the moviemakers' conception of the boy is so idealized it's as if they'd never been driven nuts by the antics of a real, live child.
"I probably idealized it.
