Familiarity with vice and sordidness in fiction is a low entertainment and of doubtful moral value and their introduction is unbearable if it is not done with the idealizing touch of the artist - The Complete Essays of C. D. Warner by Charles Dudley Warner

Unluckily his hand had grown weaker in the ten years' interval and he gave such loose rein to his idealizing habit that the portrait is neither so veracious nor so lifelike - The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris