The second part however, although I agree with your view, is possibly a little idealised?

The idealised young men in his fiction were of a similar age.

The list above is idealised - hopefully it shows the sort of things we have to think about.

Or maybe the region is simply any European's idealised homeland.

So be careful not to adopt a too idealised view.

He would refer to his idealised person as a Renaissance man.

Absolutely they saw the beauty in the classical, idealised forms.

I don't blame people seeking refuge in an idealised past.

It's probably really idealised because of TV but at the same time?

The snake has a head with thick blond hair, much idealised.

His poetry idealised women and emphasised the need for loyalty.

In the idealised converter, all the components are considered to be perfect.

Much of the 20th century was spent searching for an idealised system of local government.

Idealised waveforms found at the various points in the filter network.

Most of us have an idealised version of our childhood years.

In practice, the gasflow failed to follow the idealised pattern.

The real world is more quirky than the idealised laboratory of the school textbooks.

This was a somewhat idealised view which did not truly reflect the political reality in England at the time.

This may be an idealised picture, but group participation is likely to be more successful.

This idealised situation does not take into account friction.

God is in no sense an idealised self-image to be possessed and manipulated.

All figures feature idealised proportions of body and facial expression.

Figure 6.42 is an idealised picture of the separation of the two components.

And it's not as if this character is some idealised superwoman portrayal.

He now took a more idealized image of the same subject.

Just as in the idealized world of good families and strong communities.

As with all models, this is an idealized picture of population change in these countries.

And don't you, either; she needs to hold an idealized image of me.

And thus the idea of buying your way to an idealized life was born.

This is an idealized India, free of political and religious violence.

You also paint an idealized picture of private patients being met at the hospital by their own doctor.

Michael and Alex were the perfect idealized children they never had.

This, however, does not occur even in an idealized system.

He is a real man and not an idealized study."

Such, at any rate, was the idealized image of the piano.

We are their legacy, not some idealized piece of stone.

The difference between an idealized cycle and actual performance may be significant.

The film is set in an idealized rural suburban community.

In your desire to get married, you've developed an idealized vision of my life.

It's because Wilder wants to give you an idealized picture of family life.

The daily reality usually falls short of the idealized images.

The second added, "Corners were cut to present an idealized political image."

In public, she kept the image of their idealized relationship carefully polished.

Once one identifies with the idealized image, a number of effects follow.

Yet Walton lives in an idealized past that seems to have little to do with reality.

It is significant that they interpreted this return to an idealized past in economic terms.

At the same time many of their ways are portrayed in an idealized fashion as well.

This is a very large pendulum and an idealized situation.

I had grown up with an idealized view of the art world."

All civilisation has done is to teach us to pretend to idealise them.

Unlike many historical novelists, he does not idealise his subjects.

Any temptation to idealise the life of a ninth-century peasant should be resisted.

This time the hypnotherapist said, "People idealise a lost or far distant parent.

It was so pitilessly manifest she was resolved to idealise the situation whatever I might say.

By the end of the 19th century, Australian nationalists tended to idealise 'the bush' and its people.

Women idealise male qualities of aggression, ambition and sexual confidence so that we don't have to confront them in ourselves.

A bit like the way Claude uses light to idealise his landscapes - only Shaw is certainly not idealising of course.

I don't idealise the Guardian but I do tend to come to it first for information and ideas.

Moreover, we should certainly not idealise the traditional living conditions of Tibetans and Uighurs.

She does not idealise those groups, nor fall into the trap of soft-focusing on the 'New Man' as the answer to all women's problems.

The Misses Mould could idealise a player's habit, or a court-lady's petticoat, or even an act of parliament.

The approach was anathema to the skilled artists of his day, who decried his refusal to work from drawings and to idealise his figures.

Tolstoy tended to greatly idealise Russia's pre-Mongol past which made the traditional bylina characters almost superheroes.

O'Donnell has no hint of the Moral Majority about him but, though uncensorious, he doesn't idealise or try to act the shrink.'

(We might 'need' someone, cling to them, romanticise them, pity them, idealise them - but we cannot love them unless we love ourselves.)

In SCUM OF THE EARTH Koestler ceases to idealise the common people.

And under the force of this tradition we idealise the rugged and unmanageable, we find something heroic in rough clothes and hands, in bad manners, insensitive behaviour, and unsociableness.

It will almost certainly happen--it can almost certainly be prophesied--that in this saturnalia of sophistry there will at some time or other arise a sophist who desires to idealise cowardice.

The wastage of ill- health seemed to idealise the general character of the features, bringing out the unsuspected nobility of some, the strength of others, and in one case re- vealing an essentially comic aspect.

(EL) Madam President, I have a simple question to ask Mr Langen and Mr Hökmark, who like to idealise the debt crisis and obviously target socialist governments collectively:

Lithuanian nationalists, particularly in the 19th century, used the history of their wars with the Teutonic Order to idealise the heroism of the medieval Lithuanians, a very strong argument in support of preserving the Lithuanian language, history and culture.

Since his release, and inspired by a television programme he saw inside about an ex-con in Glasgow talking to schoolchildren about jail, Young has used his experiences of prison life to steer young people who may idealise and glamorise the criminal lifestyle towards a more fulfilling existence.

They are representative of the admiration he has for the British Army - which he never sought to idealise as in any way perfect - as in the poems collected in Barrack-Room Ballads (1892), and also show his interest in, and respect for the 'uneducated' classes.

To say this is not to idealize the working class.

It's clear from the very start that each idealizes the other.

"When young people live life their way, they idealize things from other countries," he said.

The very society he was trying to drop out of began idealizing him.

She was 18 and the kind of young working girl he tended to idealize.

Yet, the tough assessment of the present does not mean idealizing history.

We tend to believe that works of art should avoid idealizing anyone or anything.

She dances in a way that little girls should not be idealizing her for.

But I would say to him: the people who you want to idealize are not cooperating in very large numbers.

"Audiences want the ability to idealize themselves in the stars."

Men who are not free, he thought, always idealize their bondage.

To grow, the narrator must stop idealizing this world and its leaders.

"We tend to idealize those times now and keep forgetting what they were really like."

Of course a small child would idealize her father.

Because we can no longer idealize Wagner, he is more involving than ever.

Again, girls were more apt than boys to idealize their birth parents.

On the other hand, I think it's a film that idealizes women."

"Here he was, a 21-year-old, writing about love relationships and not idealizing them."

He must, he knew, take care not to idealize her.

We don't idealize the order that has settled on Europe.

She seemed determined to idealize him, he thought again.

Look at the way men like my father idealize the Civil War.

On one cup is the perfect lover or mate all people idealize.

They have a hard time idealizing their situation or maintaining any sort of conception that things could turn out well in the end.