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
His birthplace, Urbino, was also that of Raphael, the beau ideal to whom all painters aspired.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2013
Even so, Mr. Romney remains the beau ideal of consulting.
From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2011
There was an improvisatore in company, said to be the second in Italy; a young man, of perhaps twenty-five, with a face that struck me as the very beau ideal of genius.
From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by N. Parker Willis
