Idealise

Word IDEALISE
Character 8
Hyphenation idealise
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Idealise"

What do we mean by idealise?

To regard something as ideal.

To conceive or form an ideal.

To portray using idealization.

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The word "idealise" in example sentences

This is to "idealise" in the right sense of the word. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

To "idealise" in the true sense is to disengage an "idea" of all that is trivial or impertinent or transient or disturbing, and present it to men in its clearest outline, so that its own proper form shines in on the intelligence, as you would wipe away from a discovered statue all stains or accretions of mud or moss or fungus, to release and reveal its true beauty. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

The word "idealise," which is the more commonly used, has unfortunately two meanings, a true and a false; and, again unfortunately, the false prevails in vulgar use. ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

You restore the lost youth of manhood by idealisation, and you compel your readers to 'idealise' with you -- but 'to idealise' is rather a dangerous verb! ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

If we call it beautiful, then we seek to idealise poverty and coercion. ❋ Unknown (2010)

You idealise your attitude, you go far back in time, you enmesh yourself in theories and generalisations, you ride your imagination proudly, in order to reconcile yourself to something which suggests itself as more ideal than that for which the unreasoning heart hungers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

To idealise, therefore, is not to be blind, but to be far-seeing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He told the Palestinian daily Al Hayat Al Jadida: "We cannot expect a people under occupation to have textbooks which idealise, praise and express love for their occupiers." ❋ Unknown (2010)

German philosophy — the tendency to universalise and idealise the I and consciousness. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But of course Hollywood is going to idealise and romanticize Chancho Guevara or else it wont be profitable, right? ❋ Unknown (2008)

The American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise answered to his response: "Israeli texts do not 'idealise, praise and express love' for the Palestinians, but they do not malign or disseminate hatred against them either." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Catholics, by contrast, are in a muddle: they accept liberalism in a grudging way, so as not to sound too reactionary, and yet they also idealise a nostalgic organic theocratic model of culture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For years the Tories used to idealise the Whitehall system they left behind in May 1997. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is very easy to allow religious sentimentality to get the better of one and idealise an ancient society in which one does not have to live as the fount of all the virtues. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Only that those who idealise old retrograde social orders are much the same, no matter what religion they belong to. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is very easy to allow religious sentimentality and cultural pride get the better of one and idealise an ancient society in which one does not have to live as the fount of all the modern virtues. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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