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was idealized
verb
To regard something as ideal.
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Tiger Woods was idealized by us, his audience.
America, which was idealized as the land of opportunity, is now scorned by many as an enemy.
Mahler's vision was idealized and magnified, and he used a sumptuous, refined language to convey emotional and spiritual highs and lows.
In contrast, in Victorian England Socrates was idealized by utilitarian thinkers as a Christ-like martyr who laid the foundations of a modern, rational, scientific worldview.
And, given that the surgery is too expensive for most trans women, it has been criticized as perpetuating what Plemons calls "an embodied form of woman that was idealized by many but available only to a few".
Namely that the small town as it was idealized by Hollywood is no longer just a potential trap, the way it seems to James Stewart in Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life".
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The scope of the public determines which persons are idealized, not how the idealization should proceed.
But it is idealized.
Neither character is idealized.
Their domestic partnership is idealized.
Only art itself is idealized.
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