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
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
The Farnesian Hercules is the beau ideal of it.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander
