Sentence examples for idealized figure from inspiring English sources

Reynolds says Romero, who symbolizes the classically pure matador, is the "one idealized figure in the novel".

Subconsciously, it appears it took this much time for the systematic erasure of the father figure, from idealized figure to reality to loss to irrelevance, which says more about the writer than his characters.

But he insists, too, that the historical David did not much resemble the idealized figure whom we find in the Book of Samuel, where the king is depicted as "a man after [God's] own heart" and the progenitor of the Messiah.

Once an idealized figure, Carter has been spiked with realistic arrogance and repression.

"Midway through the process, I decided she would be sort of an idealized figure, like a goddess," Currin said.

Because they are too young to recall any of Reagan's live TV appearances (Mitchell, for instance, was born in 1982), today's college students tend to see the former president purely as his image makers tried to present him when he occupied the Oval Office: as a Norman Rockwellian, mist-shrouded icon of Better Times -- an idealized figure of myth.

So too, painted profiles rendered their subjects as idealized figures out of time.

Earlier, he told me that he wanted the show to represent the life of an imperfect couple, not idealized figures.

1509 Volterra, Italy April 4, 1566 Rome, Italy Daniele da Volterra, original name Daniele Ricciarelli (born 1509, Volterra [Italy] died April 4, 1566, Rome), Italian Mannerist painter and sculptor, noted for his finely drawn, highly idealized figures done in the style of Michelangelo.

(The only other openly devotional figure here is by Nolde's compatriot, Georg Kolbe, a painter-turned-sculptor whose 1930 "Pietà" depicts a grieving Mary kneeling on one knee. During the Nazi regime, Kolbe produced works of a more assertive type, idealized figures of warriors and athletes).

In these he retains Raphael's idealized figures, but, in the parts where he was left to himself (the rounding and shading, the background and landscape), he managed his burin with all the skill and freedom he had gained by the imitation of northern models, while dispensing with the northern emphasis on detail.