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
The beauty queen persona seems odd but, says Eline, there's a serious point: the lengths to which women go to attain "ideal" beauty.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2018
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
Truth rests in the mind, or flutters there in ideal beauty.
From Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence by Moody, Joel
