idealize
verb (used with object)
unidealized
-
a word derived from
idealize.
Example Sentences
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A native of Bologna, Carracci was renowned in his early career for such unidealized, close-up scenes of everyday life, and his first paintings speak to the moment, and market, that Caravaggio would cultivate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026
Particularly memorable is her astonishing sequence of tender yet frank, unidealized portraits of pregnant women, women in childbirth and women breastfeeding.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2021
Like Edie, Leilani has a ruthless knack for the somatic, rendering flesh on paper as alluring and unidealized as it is right next to you.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2020
We seem to be looking at real people as they existed, unidealized, meticulously observed and psychologically present, especially in their direct, appraising gazes.
From New York Times ● May 30, 2019
Hoffmann, and Jean Paul, he was one of the first to experience the artistic charm and possibilities of unidealized reality and to respond to its call.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig by Various
