Sentence examples for tendency to idealize from inspiring English sources

Typically, narcissists have a binary tendency to idealize and devaluate.

There he first learned about Russian revolutionary ideas from representatives of the Populist movement, whose tendency to idealize the Russian peasant he later rejected.

It isn't easy to measure whether politics is less public-spirited these days, and we should resist the tendency to idealize the past.

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.

Lauren Slater's proposed solution to our tendency to idealize psychotropic medications only to be disappointed with inevitable side effects 20 years later is that consumers learn "to disregard the hype that too often infuses pharmaceutical findings".

In a series of studies, Sandra Murray of the State University at Buffalo and others have shown that new lovers have a strong tendency to idealize their partner, in the way that Ms. Huck did: Her friends are kind of sweet, when sober.

Japanese artists also suffered because of the general trend to idealize all aspects of Western culture.

I think that this case really shines light on that because we, as Americans, but I think people in general, have a tendency to idolize and idealize doctors and forget that they are flesh and blood human beings with the same potential for greed, with the same potential for character defects.

A second reaction, parallel with the first, is the tendency of managers to idealize sunk assets.

I suppose one can label this attitude insular or ethnocentric, but one can also perceive in it a refusal to go along with the guilt-racked, reflexive tendency among Western liberals to idealize the once-despised Other and to countenance the depredations of self-rule in former colonial outposts.

"The tendency in these things is not to idealize the environment, but to show it the way it really was," said Richard Longstreth, professor of American studies and director of the historic preservation program at George Washington University.