Throughout his later life he became obsessed with the romantic idealization of the Druids and the religion of the ancient British. |
Yet, in its disavowal of pure estheticism and visual idealization, Lee's work seems more American than Korean. |
Chasseguet-Smirgel discusses the idealization of pregenital sexuality as a hallmark of the perversions. |
We must break past idealizations of community and embrace what is before us. |
As idealizations, they appear to be predicated on normative but contradictory and ultimately irreconcilable understandings of excellence. |
Such implausible idealizations, then as now, go hand in hand with nostalgia for the lost or vanishing world of the Gael as initially evoked by ethnographic prefaces. |