An ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept.
1 Simplicity of arrangement is always the beau ideal of the mechanical engineer.
2 Piccinni was the very beau ideal of a father and a husband.
3 Quietness is its beau ideal of all that is lovely and excellent.
4 He was in many ways our beau ideal - the ultimate New Yorker.
5 His beau ideal , Grandison, turns out the most impossible prig in English literature.
6 He was the first of our unfortunate sex who had reached beau ideal .
7 The very beau ideal of a wild Irish youth was my friend Pat.
8 As he rode on thus, he was the beau ideal of a cavalier.
9 We assured him that they struck us as our beau ideal of bulls.
10 She was thus quite the beau ideal of a witch.
11 Stevenson approached close to the beau ideal of epistolary art.
12 Carrick is the very beau ideal of a seaside house.
13 Professor Dawson was Tom's beau ideal of all that a university instructor should be.
14 He is, in fine, the very beau ideal of a "ladies' man!"
15 In certain social groups the world's champion prize fighter is the beau ideal of success.
16 The beau ideal of superfineness occasionally enjoys the bliss of harking back to mother English.
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