beau ideal
Example Sentences
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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.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
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
His birthplace, Urbino, was also that of Raphael, the beau ideal to whom all painters aspired.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013
Pegasus, my boy, when viewed lengthwise, presents a perspective not unlike a Hoboken cottage, and eminent builders tell me that his back is the very beau ideal of a combination roof.
From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)
