It's a stand-in for what we idealize and desire yet fear and lack, for what we covet, crave, spurn, chase or follow.
Moreover, he constantly achieves, with no sacrifice of conscientious sincerity, that compromise between a love of realism and the tendency to idealize which is one of the most .
Like steak-house owners trying to raise vegetarians, we idealize youth and sexiness but recoil if our young want to be sexy.
Taylor Hackford in Washington Post I think when you're young you tend to idealize the love relationship,the 65-year-old director says. "You're looking for the perfect combination. Unfortunately, I don't think that happens."
Dmitry Medvedev in RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty We capitalized on the Soviet opportunities for too long. At a certain point they came to an end. We have lost the previous Soviet [sports] school, and we don't need to idealize it. It simply doesn't exist anymore,Medvedev said. "And yet we...
Ian Tyson in Winnipeg Sun A lot of (other songwriters) idealize it, and I don't -- that's the difference,says Tyson, a multiple Juno winner and an inductee into both the Order of Canada and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. "A lot of the stuff you hear at...