Often in the absence of a real body with the warts and all, there is a tendency to shoehorn the other person into being an "ideal lover", and yet much of this idealism is a totally personal construct of your own making, built on the fragile foundations of selective answers, images and other online portrayals, including fast, giddy-inducing chat exchanges.
Boy, Coco's ideal lover, is also something of an adventurer, a serial seducer whose only advantage over Étienne may be that he has better looks and better game.
Perhaps, then, it was not the ideal lover, who in any case strayed, but the ideal community in which he strayed — what if that world, however absurd, was the real community of saints in, so to speak, drag?
Perhaps, then, it was not the ideal lover, who in any case strayed, but the ideal community in which he strayed what if that world, however absurd, was the real community of saints in, so to speak, drag?
An alternative keeper, that is — for while Kerouac revered the "holy con man" and Ginsberg desired him as the ideal lover, Carolyn sees a thwarted family man, a sick reveler unfitted by circumstance to accept the only true medicine, love.
For the troubadour Jaufré Rudel we needed the ideal romantic lover, a figure of enormous, almost Wagnerian introspection and reflective power, whose internal crises are deep and powerful enough to motivate the harrowing orchestral climaxes.
It automatically switches between portrait and full widescreen when moved, and with a rotating 1 megapixel camera - plus flash - is ideal for any lover of the idiosyncratic.
Ten is the ideal number of lovers to have had for both men and women, researchers have claimed.
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