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1 As our public selves become more and more idealised, and the circle in which we can give an honest account tightens, the result is a very constrained, oppressive space.

2 The nude is posed, perfect, idealised; the naked is just someone with no clothes on.

3 “Images seen on Instagram can represent one uniform, idealised standard of attractiveness – one not achievable to most young people.”

4 Above all, we teach that sex may be wonderful and relationships loving, but neither are ever perfect and that idealising them is the short way to heartbreak.

5 Beyond their "perfect" heroines, Ghibli's work has recurring female archetypes, possibly stereotypes: the wise old grandmother, the idealised home-making mother in her apron.

6 You know the young Marx – I don't idealise Marx, he was a nasty guy, personally – but he has a wonderful logic.

7 Thus the image of idealised woodland as a static, stately place, fixed by ranks of mature trees is completely modern and only the result of neglect.

8 The main character had faults and was hardly idealised which made the story more realistic and relatable.

9 Unesco waxes wistfully lyrical on a whole idealised lifestyle that may appear to have little to do with the modern Mediterranean as we know it.

10 "People present an idealised version of themselves online and we expect to have social lives like those portrayed in the media," says Challis.

11 Gannon never sacrifices her lightness of touch, while developing the notion that it is easy to ignore the living while idealising the dead.

12 “The idealised body image is highly muscular right now,” says Dr Stuart Murray, a psychologist who specialises in muscle dysmorphia in men.

13 To earn a living as an artist, he has to produce a romanticised, idealised, sanitised vision of the colony.

14 The unity of music, scene and drama was the source of opera, as 16th-century Italians looked back at an idealised concept of Greek drama.

15 Selleck was an unreconstructed man playing an idealised version of himself, and he was rewarded with an Emmy and seven consecutive Golden Globe nominations.

16 Born in New York in 1892, at 14 Normand became an artist’s model, posing for Charles Dana Gibson’s series of pen-and-ink drawings of idealised femininity that became known as “Gibson Girls” .

17 She struggled to convince studio heads when she wanted to cast actors who differed from Hollywood’s idealised image of beauty, she told the Observer.

18 Unlike the idealised faces of classical Athens, they show furrowed brows, wrinkles and laughter lines and may transform understanding of the history of portraiture.

19 The prevailing period style is now known as mannerism – busy, diffuse compositions featuring idealised figures in complex pseudo-Michelangelesque poses; saccharine colour schemes; plunging perspectives.

20 In theory, it's a quality all the Bond films should have, what with their beautiful settings and beautiful people, their idealised tales of good triumphing over evil.

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