beau ideal
beau idéal

The poet and the painter are permitted to give the beau ideal."

He was the very, beau ideal of a bandit, and would have been an admirable model for a painter.

And once more the ladies crowded round him the better to listen to a tale that had their beau ideal for its hero.

It was the beau ideal (sic) of grace, animation, and concentrated energy".

He was meant to represent the beau ideal of a clean-living public-school chap.

Ashley Wilkes is the beau ideal of Southern manhood.

"There is not another man in the Senate whose appearance goes so far to make up the beau ideal of unpolished earnestness.

How was the Beau Ideal absorbed and reinforced by the architectural profession in the design of municipal suburbs?

The beau ideal of American management is promotion from within: Work hard, and you can rise to the peak of the executive pyramid.

Berlin became Wieseltier's beau ideal, "the only magical intellectual I've ever known."

In a magnificent portrait by Copley done in London a year later, he might be the beau ideal of the time.

The public should take its cue from Mr. Bush's beau ideal, Ronald Reagan.

Much less is known about Justice Brennan, the liberals' beau ideal, who joined the Court in 1956 and retired in 1990.

But to those who knew him less well, Gifford became the beau ideal of a Giant, much as Lawrence Taylor did through the 80's.

Cézanne became the beau ideal of modernist values by making our perception of art inextricable from how it comes to be.

Walwyn had always expressed the opinion that Mercer was his 'beau ideal' as a stable jockey.

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Rex Troy, beau ideal of the matinee trade, wanted stock in the Cathodoscope Corporation.

Abraham Lincoln called Senator Henry Clay "my beau ideal," largely because he was dedicated to building America.

Strikingly handsome and beautifully proportioned, with the agility of a deer, he is in all respects the beau ideal of a native hunter.

He came nearest, a Washington correspondent concluded, to "the beau ideal of a Senator of any man on his side of the House.

The season's beau ideal was the model Nadege in a short petally skirt, looking like a flower with pencils sticking out of the bottom.

They called this double yoked model "the Beau Ideal" and suggested that it was epitomised by the Victorian villa in a garden suburb.

He is not their beau ideal by any means, but the Soviet leader is taken more seriously than Mr. Bush as a foreign-policy thinker.

Dr. House is television's limping beau ideal: his corrosive wit masks a deep inner wound, a disappointed heart unrelieved by the crippling power of addiction.