Sentence examples for fixed ideal from inspiring English sources

In fact, Mr. Cavell distinguishes moral perfectionism from the notion that there is a fixed, ideal moral law (as Kant proposed) or that moral judgment should be utilitarian, or useful (as John Stuart Mill proposed).

KELEFA SANNEH CHRISTIAN SCOTT "Anthem" (Concord) For Christian Scott, a 24-year-old trumpeter originally from New Orleans, jazz is an adaptable set of strategies rather than a fixed ideal.

If on the face of it the concert and the prize had nothing to do with each other, deep down both may root in the same fetish of youth as a fixed ideal, an abstraction.

Thus, the changeable and multifarious quality of these two creeds -- democracy and Islam -- is better explored as a historical process rather than a fixed ideal.

It is apparent that there is no fixed ideal set of parameters for PIV analysis; the parameters reported here were chosen using trial and error to empirically maximize accuracy when applied to a known, noisy ("phantom") data set see section 2.6 below.

He'd rather insist, it seems, that there is no fixed ideal of a song, of a singer, of anything.

Years ago, Mr. Wolfowitz called himself an ideologue to distinguish himself from balance-of-power realists who tended to focus more on the achievable than on fixed ideals.

For while relations between bodies and events are necessarily variable and changing, the relations constituting space and time must be viewed as determinate, fixed, and ideal.

We wish to study those sequences for which the curvature is 'small' at each step, e.g., belongs to a fixed operator ideal.

Although learning by rote recitation began fading out by the 1890s, these poets nevertheless remained fixed as ideal New England poets.

We introduce the notion of a geodesically rich space and consider applications of these results to the displacement of points under quasi-isometries that fix the ideal boundary.