She added, "It's very Western to idealize a kind of love that does not come with any expectations, that still permits both the giver and recipient to be completely free".
The story of one character, Nagi, a student who has been in trouble with the police for activism back in Cairo, is told in the first person, and he seems to represent, if not Aswany's actual views, then a kind of idealized self.
Distant fathers are idealized fathers; idealized fathers are distant fathers.
According to his book, Greenspan — whose Senate confirmation hearing was the same day Nixon went on television to resign — dreamed that George W. Bush would be a reincarnation of Gerald Ford, whom he idealizes as the kind of man who could restore economic sanity to the nation through the combination of principled conservatism and bipartisan civility.
Genre art contrasts with that of landscape, portraiture, still life, religious themes, historic events, or any kind of traditionally idealized subject matter.
In the classic BSDE theory, we consider a Brownian motion as the driver, but a Brownian motion is a kind of very idealized stochastic model, which limits greatly the applications of the classic BSDEs.
They thought that her argument about sexual duality being "the only universal difference" idealized the rights of a certain kind of people and, by implication, discredited the demands of anyone who wasn't that kind of people.
Therefore, no general conclusion may be drawn about the natural world and its kinds, from the fact that scientists study scientific kinds in a highly idealized and controlled setting.
There is, he saw, a kind of nostalgia that posits a world that never existed and a set of virtues never put into practice — the kind that idealizes the heroic forties, or the roaring twenties, or the fabulous fifties — and a kind that finds a bottomless melancholy in the simple desolation of life by time.
But Hitler idealized pre-Christian Greek and Roman art and countenanced no kind of painting more contemporary than nineteenth-century Bavarian genre scenes.
