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
Or so goes the famous line by Irving Howe, the beau ideal of the politically engaged writer and a founder of the left-wing intellectual magazine Dissent.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2014
His birthplace, Urbino, was also that of Raphael, the beau ideal to whom all painters aspired.
From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013
This beau ideal of a young Quakeress, her simple, modest, consistent apparel, which was chiefly drab, relieved by the use of dark olive colored material, enlisted everyone's attention.
From Revisiting the Earth by Hill, James Langdon
