Sociology was not yet a discipline, but before the century was out, mass idealisation of this sort would lend itself to the scientific study of charisma and group psychology.
It's a great example of community action, and of people looking after each other something which may have been lost since the early, idealistic days of the internet.
Although women would again be devalued by the end of the Middle Ages, the idealized vision of womanhood as defined by courtly love poetry was retained and influences romantic songs and poems up through the present day.
So my attitude is not one of the pitfalls, and so the — this idealized notion that — of discovery just suddenly falling into your lap — it's recognizing something that you might not have anticipated.
By following the seemingly impractical, seemingly idealistic, foolish course, you will discover that it is the only practical course, and the only one which will even give you the material prizes that you would desire.
Once in power, Stalin dropped the new economic policy, which was too nice, and he installed the dictatorial regime he believed would ensure his goal of socialism in one country.
" Admiration for the heroine of a romantic novel … is love for an idealized image of oneself, " Rachel Brownstein wrote in her 1982 book, Becoming a Heroine.
The Romantic is excited by how things might ideally be, and judges what currently exists in the world by the standard of a better imagined alternative.
Tahiti was no longer a romanticised alternative to European civilisation, it was a classic case study of what European civilisation could do to other societies.
To walk among the happy throngs in Sheger Park, Addis Ababa's newest and glitziest public space, is to encounter an idealised vision of Ethiopia's future.
Unsurprisingly, a large body of research shows that viewing idealised or retouched images adds to the dissatisfaction that many people already feel towards their body.