Example Sentences

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His gouache paintings have idealized rooms by Billy Baldwin, Mario Buatta, Tony Duquette and David Hicks, among other designers.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2010

Disney's America will idealize and sentimentalize history the way Disney's movies have idealized and sentimentalized nature.

From Time Magazine Archive

Over the centuries painters and poets have idealized the canyons as a mist-shrouded wilderness.

From Time Magazine Archive

After all, I may have idealized and overrated him.

From The Inner Sisterhood A Social Study in High Colors by Sherley, George Douglass

The distorted notions of invisible things which Dante and his rival Milton have idealized are merely the mask and the mantle in which these great poets walk through eternity enveloped and disguised.

From English literary criticism by Various