ideal beauty
Example Sentences
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They shouldn't compare their bodies to the ones on the screen, nor should they see the female bodies as the symbol of ideal beauty.
From Salon • Apr. 16, 2022
Many asked why these adverts did not feature the kind of models more commonly seen in Chinese advertisements who have fair skin and large round eyes, which are typically considered ideal beauty features in China.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2022
While their features were upheld as examples of ideal beauty, their complicity in the construction of their fame worried some critics about moral decay in the heart of the British Empire.
From Time • Jun. 1, 2016
Visit the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades and count the ancient Greek and Roman marble sculptures whose noses are smashed, their pagan claim to enduring ideal beauty whacked by subsequent armies of the self-righteous.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2015
The thirst for ideal beauty, for endless empire, and for prohibited knowledge, no poet has better expressed, and in this respect Giordano Bruno is nearest him in his own time.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" by Various
