Of course we do, because we are speaking about ideals, born of experience and nurtured on realized potential.
Like many of the ideals born out of last year's 18-day uprising, the dream of Egypt's independent media to work freely, without intimidation, has been frustrated.
The Spirituals also viewed Christ as the ideal humanity born in God from all eternity.
The ascetic ideal is born when suffering becomes endowed with ultimate significance.
During the decades when U.S. crews dominated the Olympics, a rowing ideal was born and nurtured, which was later codified in books like "The Shell Game" by Stephen Kiesling and "The Amateurs" by David Halberstam.
The trilogy's hero, Christian Grey, is the full-blown Wolfian ideal — a born yoni-tapper who focusses his masterly Goddess Array on our passionate narrator, Anastasia Steele, to the point that, as she puts it, he "has a direct hotline to my inner goddess".
The Horatio Alger ideal that someone born poor can, through hard work, become rich is the quintessential American promise.
Do we live up to our ideals?" Daniel Zhu was born in China, studied in the United States and now divides his time between China and the West.
Since the New York City Ballet founder George Balanchine prescribed an ideal physique, some not born with a narrow, short torso, long legs and delicate arms have tried to compensate with excessive thinness, using diet pills and diuretics or inducing vomiting to lose weight.
Studies have found that between 24 and 36 months or more are ideal intervals and children born with these intervals have better survival chances than those born with less than 24 months of a birth interval.
