idealizer

De Tocqueville was as much a cheerleader for (and idealizer of) the stern probity and industry of Northerners as he was against what he perceived as the idleness and frivolity of the slave - and land-owning Virginia aristocracy-themselves, he gleefully pointed out, descendants of blue-blooded bad sheep who'd been happily shipped off by their families in England.

Like Dickens, I'm a Tourist On Withered Ground 2002

He admired chivalry, then in its last days, and he painted it with the passion of an idealizer.

Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson

The theory that _art imitates nature_ has sometimes been grounded upon and found sustenance in this illusion, as also its variant, more easily to be defended, which makes art the _idealizer of nature_.

Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic Benedetto Croce 1909

Sorrow, the great idealizer, had had the portrait of Beatrice on her easel for years, and every touch of her pencil transfigured the woman more and more into the glorified saint.

Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

There is no idealizer like unavailing regret, all the more if it be a regret of fancy as much as of real feeling.

Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855

Gordon presents Maynard Dixon as a lover of old California landscape (he was born in Fresno) and an idealizer of traditional, dying Indian culture in posters, murals, drawings, and paintings.

The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper Reviewed by Dorothy Bryant 2010

Gordon presents Maynard Dixon as a lover of old California landscape (he was born in Fresno) and an idealizer of traditional, dying Indian culture in posters, murals, drawings, and paintings.

The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper Reviewed by Dorothy Bryant 2010

As the fashion in hair-dressing does not grant man the privilege of enhancing his facial attractions; nor of obscuring his defects by a becomingly arranged coiffure; and, as the modes in neck-gear are such that he cannot modify the blemishes of a defective complexion by encircling his athletic or scrawny throat with airy tulle, or dainty lace, that arch-idealizer of pasty-looking faces; and as he has forsworn soft, trailing garments that conceal unclassic curves and uninspiring lines of nether limbs, it behooves him to be more exactingly particular even than woman in the selection of his wearing apparel.

What Dress Makes of Us Dorothy Quigley

Anyway, you have my sympathy and if you’re with a mother-idealizer now, may he be in recovery.

Femininity and motherhood 2005