Some people have a feeling of nostalgia for what has been lost and idealize the past. |
At the same time, however, they would come to idealize the comradeship of the trenches and to support civic virtues. |
Like Sallust, Livy was inclined to idealize the severe virtues of republican Rome. |
To motivate idealization, consider how the public justification fares if it declines to idealize, or endorses justificatory populism. |
Castles themselves housed many men but few women, and poets, wishing to idealize physical passion, looked beyond the marriage state. |
And finally, all cultures, I suspect, idealize and prettify some forms of sin. |