Trump never seems more ill at ease or more defensive than when he is called on to represent an ideal that stands for something broader than the self, particularly when that ideal calls for sacrifice.
Part of the sense of movement came from Mr. Flanagan's emphatic modeling, which seemed indebted to Matisse's, but was freer; the animal sometimes resembled a looping, abstract line, achieving the modernist ideal called "drawing in space".
And for nearly a century, until India's independence in 1947, the British ideal called up an image of a timeless India to keep at bay the very forces British rule was fostering: modernity, nationalism, the idea of a unified Indian nation that the railroads and mass education had made possible.
To this day, it's one of Lynch's best movies; as such, it's also evidence that Lynch himself is a victim of his times—his ideal calling would have been as a studio director, applying visionary artistry to such a varied range of classical stories that his sensibility would expand and deepen.
By discussing the decomposition and extrapolation of seismic wave field, we introduce a mathematic ideal called the expansion of wave differential operators.
If the ideal calls on us to tear down and completely restructure the social life of modern industrial democracies, it looks problematic.
For athletes, there is an additional "ideal" called the "sport body ideal".
This ideal calls upon us to not just set aside for a moment the various stratifications of people, it causes us to physically see that for a moment or two it may be possible.
Men started to become obsolete somewhere in the early part of this new century, the arrival of vagina-obsessed rabbits, IVF and that unachievable platonic ideal called "Gosling" rendered my once-thriving gender irrelevant.
Some of Bradley's classmates, who think he is a slave to his ideals, call him The Martyr, though he is more frequently addressed as Brads, Spin, Star, or Horse.
