Sentence examples for ideal even if from inspiring English sources

"Of, on your own or in public life, reaching toward an ideal, even if we don't get there".

The location, two blocks from Plaça Catalunya, is ideal even if you don't have a reservation at the in-house, Michelin-starred restaurant Saüc.

It's a rather beautiful ideal, even if — like most ideals — it's all too easy to make fun, as Cohen does, of its most popular and banal expressions.

"Rio" (ECM), Mr. Jarrett's most recent album, resonates with that ideal even if it obviously adheres to another one: the spontaneous solo voyage, a durable cornerstone of his career.

The president-elect needed to see all the options in front of him, and to deeply grasp how far he was from the ideal, even if the ideal wasn't politically possible.

Many of a farmer's duties are weather-dependent; an autonomous tractor could, for instance, tap into live forecast data and choose to go out and apply fungicide when conditions are ideal, even if it's four o'clock in the morning.

"Stick by your ideals, even if it means some personal sacrifice," she said.

Are they expressing a characterological preference for people who refuse to give up on their ideals, even if they think those ideals are idiotic?

But at the same time, he had the strength of character to be true to himself and those ideals, even if they were ever-fluctuating and ever-mocked.

But it can also lead to unprecedented attempts to embrace American ideals, even if they are never thought of as explicitly American.

But in a city obsessed with money and prestige, perhaps the most remarkable manifestation of this movement is a new passion among educated young Muscovites to follow their ideals, even if it means taking on the drudgery of local government.