Sentence examples for ideal held from inspiring English sources

Jimmy isn't a character so much as a moral ideal held up to reflect the creeping rot of the world around him.

The human ideal held up in Greek and Latin literature, formed after civilization had emerged from earlier centuries of barbarism, was to be transformed, before the ancient world came to its close, into the spiritual ideal of Judeo-Christianity, whose writers foreshadowed medieval literature.

But a more recently developed Swedish ideal, held by many, has more of a universal human-rights focus that sometimes places the instinct to help as many refugees as possible ahead of the traditional priorities of a nation-state, such as securing high employment levels, insuring housing and social welfare for existing citizens, and protecting its borders.

It wasn't until the end that I thought, 'My God, she could have whupped my ass if she'd hit it right.'" Sanderson's celebrations were far from ideal: held in doping control for hours ("Everything had dried up, I couldn't wee in the bottle") she returned to the athletes' village after midnight to find that everyone had "gone discoing".

During her 40-year reign as the city's most visible benefactor, Mrs. Astor embodied a social ideal held by generations long past: the combination of good family, good breeding and good will that today's paparazzi would probably overlook in favor of the celebutante eager to tout her perfume line on QVC.

This is an ideal held by both heterosexual and same-sex couples who are more financially secure.

The investment guru's ideal holding period is forever.

But now he admits that he is no longer certain this ideal holds true.

The most successful investor in history, Warren Buffett, says his ideal holding period for shares is for ever.

This ideal holds up the commitment to lifelong fidelity and support by two sexually different human beings — a commitment that involves the mutual surrender, arguably, of their reproductive self-interest — as a uniquely admirable kind of relationship.

But he insists he favors Warren Buffett's ideal holding time: forever.