idealized image
Americannoun
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a personal standard of perfection against which one's actual thinking, behavior, and appearance are compared.
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an exaggerated and unrealistic view of one's virtues and abilities.
Example Sentences
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On a sunny day, the area is at its postcard best, and much of the lake lives up to that idealized image.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2021
“It opened a fantasy, a conceptual space, an idealized image that it was going to be possible for women to be very successful professionals and very successful mothers,” Williams said.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2021
Better to worship that idealized image than to admit that their unhappiness will follow them wherever they go.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 29, 2019
It gave him a sense of purpose, living up to the idealized image of this man he had only started to get to know.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2019
The idealized image of Venice herself meets us everywhere.
From A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Wilde, Oscar
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