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Discover LudwigThe phrase "beau ideal" is correct and usable in written English, though it is often spelled as "beau idéal" to reflect its French origin.
You can use it to describe a person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or ideal.
Example: "In her eyes, he was the beau idéal of a romantic partner, embodying all the traits she desired."
Alternatives: "perfect example" or "paragon of virtue."
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beau ideal
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Nonstandard spelling of beau idéal
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Even so, Mr. Romney remains the beau ideal of consulting.
A special problem for me is that Delacroix was the beau ideal of painting for Charles Baudelaire, who is my beau ideal of art criticism.
Tijana's beau ideal of a man seemed to derive from her brother's old Army unit.
The public should take its cue from Mr. Bush's beau ideal, Ronald Reagan.
The poet and the painter are permitted to give the beau ideal".
These gleaming compositions fulfill the high-modernist beau ideal; they exist for themselves alone.
The reporters' beau ideal of a boxer was the laconic Joe Louis.
In its opening phase, at least, our war in Libya looks like the beau ideal of a liberal internationalist intervention.
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Steward was also a magnet for other gay writers and artists, including Jean Genet, Glenway Wescott, Fritz Peters, Tennessee Williams, Jean Cocteau and James Purdy, and perhaps most meaningfully, photographer George Platt Lynes, who shared Steward's fascination with the beau ideals of American manhood.
In Arthur Bryant's account, Henry III's son, Edward I, was the last of the great Plantagenets, indeed, the very "beau-ideal of a medieval king".
He looked up to Wills, once calling him "the beau-ideal of an athlete"—high praise considering that Harrison was the fastest runner of the colonies.
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