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But, then, does that mean we've constructed a society whereby tomorrow's kids will idealize, say, Osama bin Laden and Pablo Escobar as much as today's kids may idealize Blackbeard and Al Capone?

From Salon • May 25, 2011

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The average woman will idealize the old tweed coat on her lover's back.

From What Dreams May Come by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

They were doers—and the men of the future will idealize ours.

From The Crow's Nest by Day, Clarence

It will idealize human life and deify nature.

From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by Kennedy, W. Sloane