Sentence examples for contemporary ideal from inspiring English sources

Mr. Parker neither understands nor respects Marlowe's inhibitions; he fritters them away, unconsciously questing for some contemporary ideal of gruff likability.

The Times' same-sex wedding announcements will be the supreme expression of the contemporary ideal of marriage as a grand, individualistic romance detached from society's strictures — the ideal to which contemporary Americans are wedded, for better or for worse.

By her remarkable beauty, with her tall, slender figure (she was about 5 feet 11 inches), her red-gold hair and amber-coloured eyes, and her taste for music and poetry, Mary summed up the contemporary ideal of the Renaissance princess at the time of her marriage to Francis, eldest son of Henry and Catherine, in April 1558.

But it's the ease and sincerity with which Mr. Damon conveys moral decency — so that it feels as if it originates from deep within rather than from, say, God or country — that helps make him a strikingly contemporary ideal of what used to be regularly called the American character.

But it was precisely that outcome that laid the groundwork for Western pluralism and ultimately, of our contemporary ideal of Democracy Universal.

Brennan is at her best when visiting with the colorful history of the region and the extent to which it contrasts with contemporary ideals of restoration and conservation.

They make you realise how remote in attitudes to the body the great nudes of art are from contemporary ideals of beauty, and how bizarre and limiting our own perspective is.

The nips and tucks may have been ordered by Pharaoh Akhenaten to make his wife conform better to contemporary ideals of beauty, the researchers theorized — or, said Dr. Alexander Huppertz, director of the Imaging Science Institute in Berlin, "to his personal perception".

For the latter, a principal motive for sports participation (and for visits to an aerobics class or a fitness centre) is a desire to improve one's health and to shape one's body into closer conformity to contemporary ideals of physical attractiveness.

This indicates that although van der Weyden did not adhere to the tradition of idealised representation, he sought to please his sitters in a manner that reflected contemporary ideals of beauty.

In doing so they also disrupted contemporary ideals of manhood which encompassed self-mastery, virility and sobriety.