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
Two weeks of a proud pleasure were then passed in the society of the man who was always to remain his beau ideal.
From Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown by Colles, Julia Keese
