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beau ideal

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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