Side-note: Fitness of the name and character of Alkibiades for idealising this feature in Sokrates.
From his idealised Admetos Browning passed with hardly a pause to attempt the more difficult feat of idealising a living sovereign.
The whole poem is the sincere expression of the scholar and poet, even in youth idealising the austere charm of philosophy, while feeling in his heart the more powerful attraction of poetry.
Even Virgil's idealisingart fails to conceal the triviality of the media through which the invisible Power made its will and purpose manifest.
But, on the other hand, he is austerely indifferent to the follies and the idealisingfancies of lovers.
If he shows little of the idealising or contemplative faculty of poetic genius, he has at least the facile power and spontaneous exuberance which distinguish the great creators of human character.
There is a strong realism in the expression of martial sentiment in Ennius, marking him out as a man familiar with the life of the camp and the battle-field, and quite distinct from the idealising enthusiasm of Livy and Virgil[53].
Although his subject did not afford much scope for the exercise of the idealising faculty of a poetical artist, yet there are some passages in the poem conceived with the finest pictorial power.
He presents his own simple experience and emotions, uncoloured by idealising fancy or reflexion, and the world accepts this as among the truest of all records of human feeling.
Lathrop, in his Study of Hawthorne, says: “The visible pageant is only of value to him as it suggests the viewless host of heavenly shapes that hang above it like an idealising mirage.
I do not for a moment suppose that these two groups of witnesses had a clearly conceived intention of deceiving or misleading, but as a cautious investigator I had to make allowance for their idealising and sentimental tendencies.
Each nation took to admiring itself complacently, to praising its own character and achievements, and to idealising its historical and mythical past.
No poet, therefore, of the troubadour sort, or of the idealising learned refinement of Guinicelli or Cavalcanti.
Tolstoy has often been accused of idealising Russian peasants, but, as these most graphic pictures attest, he perceived the worst that could be said.
Both Milton and Tolstoy regard with horror, as one of the worst of snares, the idealising power of love.
It must bring about a change of life, without denying the dark side of life; it must show "the Divine in the things nearest at hand, without idealising falsely the ordinary situation of life.
The theories, too, can only be made really plausible by idealising man to an unwarrantable extent.
But the mediaeval romancers disguised that form of the story, and the process of idealising Arthur reached such heights in the middle ages that Tennyson thought himself at liberty to paint the Flos Regum, "the blameless King.
But the process of idealising him went on: still incomplete in Malory's compilation, where he is often rather otiose and far from royal.
She had also to reckon with the insidious process of idealising the absent.
She had begun to idealise Fritz, but how could she go on idealising him?
But though both sciences have different aims they are occupied largely with the same emotions, and are connected by a common idealising purpose.
She, too, had begun by idealising Emilia, but her affection and enthusiastic admiration were soon outdone and might well have been quenched by Shelley's rapt devotion.
She had very quickly become intimate and confidential with Emilia, and estimated her to a nicety at her real worth, admiring her without idealising her or caring to do so.
The Corinthian potters were particularly fond of idealising ordinary scenes in this way.
But in this we fall into the danger of idealising sense experience falsely, and of expecting achievements from movements within it which are possible only if these movements flow from deeper sources.
Amaldi was too near her with his idealising friendship for her to treat him with absolute convention.
But you shouldn't get into the habit of idealising people.
Hence the highly idealising tendency of the great experiences of moral suffering.
There is a strong realism in the expression of martial sentiment in Ennius, marking him out as a man familiar with the life of the camp and the battle-field, and quite distinct from the idealising enthusiasm of Livy and Virgil[7].
There is far too much theorising about the countryman and the countrywoman, far too much idealising of them and far too much rating of them as clods.
He spoke of "the late Professor King's idealising of the Japanese farmer's condition.
His grand poem may be called an idealising of the monarch of Israel, but it is an idealising which expected realisation.
His ideal, even more so than the ideal of other idealising minds, was the mere outcome of himself; it contained his faults as well as his virtues.
Of this idealising tendency we have in sculpture evidence enough in the many examples which have been preserved to us; and with regard to painting there is curious literary testimony to the same effect.
He must apply a microscope to it, and stake his fame on idealising its subdivided, single hairs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "idealising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
