Sentence examples for idealized projections from inspiring English sources

In books like "Lulu" and "Warwick" and "The Mission of Death," Walworth added purple prose, foot fetishism and idealized projections of himself to what O'Brien calls "a staggering slovenliness" about plotting.

Barrera has put a two-million-dollar bounty on Keller's head, forcing him on the lam and then, reluctantly, back into the D.E.A. Thriller heroes tend to fall into two categories, each an idealized projection of the (male) reader's ego.

Jaeger-LeCoultre watches, Delman pumps and Buick sedans are as essential to the action as a glistening smile or arched brow — projections of the characters' idealized selves.

He turns the fact of projection — that we relate to idealized or imagined versions of our lovers, not actual other people — into an excuse for self-love: since you'll never know anyone else, you might as well get to know yourself.

His was flat, idealized.

But it is idealized.

"I probably idealized it.

Neither character is idealized.

An idealized downtown.

Are they idealized or vampirized?

Only art itself is idealized.