They adopted the Saxons as their ideal, imagining Americans as direct and unalloyed descendants of the English, later including the Germans.
When Dorothy sings "someday I'll wish upon a star", one is stepping up to high ideals ("Imagine": a brotherhood of man), not giving in to fear ("Imagine": no hell below us).
In reply to these questions Laymon (1991) has put forward a theory which understands idealizations as ideal limits: imagine a series of experimental refinements of the actual situation which approach the postulated limit and then require that the closer the properties of a system come to the ideal limit, the closer its behavior has to come to the behavior of the ideal limit (monotonicity).
He has a deep and profound voice – ideal, I imagine, for making himself heard by an audience, even from 50ft up, but kind of intense.
As Mr. Pressfield penned, "Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it".
Pick an athlete just in front of you who looks experienced - grey haired vets are ideal - imagine a rope between the two of you and that rope shortening until you are on their shoulder.
So, too, grows the inclination to review one's ideals and imagine their implications writ large.
The lyrics felt elegiac — as wistful and remote as the ideals of "Imagine" — but the music said fight.
Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things.
Think of Utopia as just another word for the ideal America the imagined one of election seasons that is prosperous, righteous, and always good and suddenly Stevens is not so different from the person who gives a stump speech.
It's not even close to the Platonic ideal they imagined it to be.
