Definitions
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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
idealise .
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Examples
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It idealises the theocratic monoculture we used to be.
Britain's illiberal attitude to the church has driven me away
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Sheen's Hamlet idealises the dead father by becoming the Ghost himself.
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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.
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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.
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In this sense every artist, instead of copying nature, idealises it.
An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
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He idealises enough to make us feel pleasure or pain, not enough to make us forget ourselves.
An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
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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.
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The tragedian, then, idealises, because he starts from within.
An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times
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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.
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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.
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