beau ideal
Example Sentences
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The Chopin that emerges in “Becoming George” is far from a Romantic beau ideal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Their friendship was the beau ideal of warrior comrades.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022
Philanthropic achievements made him the beau ideal for plutocrats as renaissance men.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2022
Lipsyte: One of the reasons that the older reporters were antagonistic to him, besides the fact that he wasn’t laconic like Joe Louis, their beau ideal, was the unorthodoxy of his style.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2016
His father was Archie’s beau ideal indeed of all that was worth being, or saying, or knowing, in this world; and Rupert’s as well.
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables
