beau ideal
Example Sentences
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When I ask for his American political beau ideal, he says Alexander Hamilton.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026
Their friendship was the beau ideal of warrior comrades.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022
His birthplace, Urbino, was also that of Raphael, the beau ideal to whom all painters aspired.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013
Even so, Mr. Romney remains the beau ideal of consulting.
From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2011
The same money and the same trouble would render that which is now the very beau ideal of discomfort, at least tolerable, and in many instances good.
From The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by Cooper, James Fenimore
