beau ideal
Example Sentences
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When I ask for his American political beau ideal, he says Alexander Hamilton.
It’s not surprising that Mr. Serrano found his way to Ms. Wilson, who, like Mr. Duncan, the author’s beau ideal of a player, “banks in beauty.”
Their friendship was the beau ideal of warrior comrades.
From Washington Post
Philanthropic achievements made him the beau ideal for plutocrats as renaissance men.
From New York Times
The women who in various ways competed for Hitler’s attention to embody the beau ideal of womanhood in the Reich: fecund, contentedly subservient, vying for the Fürher’s admiration.
From Washington Post
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