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
Lipsyte: One of the reasons that the older reporters were antagonistic to him, besides the fact that he wasn’t laconic like Joe Louis, their beau ideal, was the unorthodoxy of his style.
From Slate • Jun. 4, 2016
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
He seems, indeed, to be the delight of human kind, as their beau ideal of human nature.
From The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 by Webster, Daniel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
