“Here, the art seems to idealize and ironize the past simultaneously.”

“If anything, it allows for a reverse form of cultural prejudice, through which critics idealize large groups of people they barely understand.”

“Harlequin romances idealize traditional male and female gender roles and always have a happy ending.”

“Perhaps it can be said that we idealise the afterlife because of a fear of death.”

“We know that people can idealise a great deal, but they cannot idealise as much as this.”

“Surely you idealise him, Mark, and see in him the reflection of your own good self.”

“The practice dates back to Medieval Europe, an era the Klan idealizes as morally pure and racially homogenous.”

“Historically accurate, though it idealizes the Polish heroes, Wojna chocimska reveals Potocki's gift for poetic condensation.”

“One idealizes one's literary heroes only to have that idealism subverted by the reality.”

“The cult of the Virgin in the Middle Ages, he argues, led to the courtly love poets, the troubadours, idealising women in their writing.”

“That is idealising the study of botany in a most delicious way.”

“This idealising tendency was shared by Britain and an Anglophilic America.”

“By naturalizing Ethics the school of Herbert Spencer reverses the idealizing process which rather ethicizes nature.”

“That same year Longfellow published Hyperion, a romantic novel idealizing his European travels.”

“The principle of this logic of belief can be understood as idealizing the student into an ideal reasoner.”