They live in memories they hold tightly to their bosoms, finding kindred spirits with whom to share their idealized memories of a life left behind.

Toto's wide-eyed, laughing reaction to a preview for "Stagecoach" or to Chaplin in the boxing ring evokes idealized memories of childhood.

The narrator projects onto Stéphane an idealized memory of his own childhood, when he visited France with his mother at age 16.

The ghost is the idealized memory of his brother, President John F. Kennedy.

These pastoral visuals represent an idealized and fond memory of areas throughout Latin America.

Picard realized he was looking at Kirk's idealized memory of his beloved wife, pulled from his mind, his heart, his soul.

Learned Hand's mother thereafter promoted an idealized memory of her husband's professional success, intellectual abilities, and parental perfection, placing considerable pressure on her son.

"Rather, it's a kind of idealized cultural memory of the position of women when I grew up."

The golden age of concertgoing, meanwhile, is at least partly a matter of idealized memory.

Nostalgia is irresistible, it seems, to baby-boomer gardeners who have an idealized memory, real or imagined, of fresh vegetables from the garden gracing the dinner table.