Sheen's Hamlet idealises the dead father by becoming the Ghost himself. ❋ Unknown (2011)
It idealises the theocratic monoculture we used to be. ❋ Theo Hobson (2010)
The aesthetic which idealises the individual's will-to-power, which appeals to emotion rather than reason, which derides the intellectual "constraints" of reason, which glories in the sublime nature of the wild, which looks to the "heroic" heritage of the past for chivalric models of virtue -- this is the aesthetic which gives us fascism. ❋ Hal Duncan (2005)
In this sense every artist, instead of copying nature, idealises it. ❋ Thomas Hill Green (N/A)
He idealises enough to make us feel pleasure or pain, not enough to make us forget ourselves. ❋ Thomas Hill Green (N/A)
Poetry, indeed, idealises, and no doubt the Israelites did not always live up to their aspirations; but men who could give utterance to a faith so clear, to a penitence so deep, and to longings so lofty and spiritual as these Psalms contain are not the least among the heralds of the kingdom of Christ. ❋ Archibald B. C. Alexander (N/A)
The tragedian, then, idealises, because he starts from within. ❋ Thomas Hill Green (N/A)
Both are discontented with the present, the one because it falls short of the future, which he imagines, the other because it has departed from the security of the past, which he idealises. ❋ Rolfe Arnold Scott-James (N/A)
In a great passion the mind is set upon an object which it idealises beyond the possibility of complete satisfaction, and there is suffering because the will is thwarted and cheated of its ideal. ❋ Rolfe Arnold Scott-James (N/A)
It must either interpret the natural world faithfully, attributing to the mythical deity the sort of life that dramatically suits its visible behaviour, or if it idealises and moralises the spectacle it must renounce the material reality and efficacy of its gods. ❋ George Santayana (1907)
All that is inessential she casts away, all that is essential she retains; she idealises, and that is why her picture of a lost mistress has had power to keep a man a celibate to the end of his days, and why she can break a human heart with the picture of a dead child. ❋ Unknown (1907)
And the American has become so idealistic that he even idealises money. ❋ Unknown (1905)
It is indeed an almost pathetic fact that Germany, which idealises warfare, stands to gain more than any country by an assured rule of international peace which would save her from warfare. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
The way she idolises and idealises him is a marvel of womanly stupidity. ❋ Maria Thompson Daviess (1898)
But the dramatist idealises or generalises human experience; he does not reproduce it literally. ❋ Sidney Lee (1892)
It has therefore a real food of a sort to offer to religious cravings; it idealises, and yet it makes no demand upon the spiritual faculties. ❋ Robert Hugh Benson (1892)
It's just because he idealises you so much that he thinks he is not worthy. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
In her case I can understand it; she lives in an asthetic reverie; she idealises everything. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
A girl named Ida Starr idealises him, and is helped thereby to a purer life. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
