beau ideal

But that just made Summer more enticing, an unobtainable Beau Ideal.

The landlady came; a fit spirit to rule over such a domain—the beau-ideal of tidiness and good humour.

Nothing too much; nothing lacking—just the beau-ideal of a bachelor's parlor.

He was well qualified for a hero of romance, or a woman's beau-ideal.

This prince of the seventeenth century was the beau-ideal decadent that many modern novelists have delighted to depict.

He seemed to me the beau ideal of a country gentleman: nothing less than this, and something more.