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It would amuse him to know how much she had idealized him, how he had become a person made not of flesh but of little crystals of perfection, the American man she would never have.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This, however, he did not know, for he had idealized her and invested her with all manner of high qualities and virtues which she by no means possessed.

From The Brute by Kummer, Frederic Arnold

But Yvette Seymour Stukeley had prayed for Colonel de Warrenne nightly for seven years and had idealized him beyond recognition.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Wren, Percival Christopher

Gradually but surely his mounting passion had idealized her.

From Harvest by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

She had idealized it, with the imagery of her kind.

From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna