idealises

It idealises the theocratic monoculture we used to be.

Britain's illiberal attitude to the church has driven me away Theo Hobson 2010

Sheen's Hamlet idealises the dead father by becoming the Ghost himself.

Hamlet – review 2011

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.

The Ghetto Within The Ghetto Hal Duncan 2005

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.

Archive 2005-12-01 Hal Duncan 2005

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 Thomas Hill Green

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 Thomas Hill Green

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.

Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics Archibald B. C. Alexander

The tragedian, then, idealises, because he starts from within.

An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times Thomas Hill Green

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.

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James

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.

Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James