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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

The reporters’ beau ideal of a boxer was the laconic Joe Louis.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2016

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 beau ideal is the highest form of living beauty which he sees around him.

From Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Norman, B. M.




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