| With the decline in traditional patriarchy came a more virulent emphasis on female sexual fidelity and greater idealization of family harmony. |
| Men may well have envied the social and economic parasitism of middle-class femininity, despite the Victorians' idealization of home life. |
| Similarly, the somber and threnodic second movement proves to be an elegy for the idealization of a war hero. |
| But one can pull the throttle back too far, in the direction of idealization or prettification. |
| Throughout his later life he became obsessed with the romantic idealization of the Druids and the religion of the ancient British. |
| Chasseguet-Smirgel discusses the idealization of pregenital sexuality as a hallmark of the perversions. |
