idealized image

collocation in English

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idealized
adjective
uk
/aɪˈdɪə.laɪzd/us
/aɪˈdiː.ə.laɪzd/
involving thinking of or representing someone or something as better than that person or thing ...
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image
noun
uk
/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/us
/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/
a picture in your mind or an idea of how someone or ...
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(Definition ofidealizedandimagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Through this fiction, the young child produces anidealizedimageof a more unified self, the ideal ego.
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He also tried to avoid men'sidealizedimageof heroines and women's idealized images of heroes.
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One will impose a rigorous set of standards on oneself in order to attempt to actually measure up to what theidealizedimageis.
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One will make claims on others and on life based on the prestige one feels entitled to because of theidealizedimage.
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Once one identifies with theidealizedimage, a number of effects follow.
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However, some of them use these tools as a showcase creating anidealizedimageto be accepted by groups and to reach a big number of friends.
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This is followed by a flood of idealized images of immigrants which defuse and explode the usual stereotypes through their very accumulation.
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The son, recently graduated from college and planning to follow in his father's footsteps, gradually discovers the large gap between hisidealizedimageof his father and the reality.
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Each person builds up his personalidealizedimagefrom the materials of his own special experiences, his earlier fantasies, his particular needs, and also his given faculties.
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Aggressive safeguarding strategies include deprecation, accusations, or self-accusations and guilt, which are used as means for elevating a fragile self-esteem and safeguarding an overblown,idealizedimageof oneself.
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This led her to question the contradictions between the idealized images she produced, and the actualities of womens lives.
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The concept of combination printing stemmed from the desire to create more of a fine art within photography and often more idealized images.
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Idealized images also suggest that real women do not measure up to such presentations of beauty, and they can not reasonably obtain such physical expectations.
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It is desirable and desiring and the closer the body is to the idealized images of youth, health, fitness, and beauty, the higher its exchange value.
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Idealizing romantic love with a beautiful girl in his childhood, he is bitterly disappointed when the real world does not match the idealized images of love in his own imaginings.
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