Sentence examples for ideal notion from inspiring English sources

For the most part it was an ideal notion sent up like a balloon.

In Midwest company towns like Racine, the Spirit of America and the Spirit of Poetry are less than the ideal notion.

… We have agreed to this regression in the name of moral superiority, the love we bear our children, and some ideal notion of child-reading, all of which are proving far more effective than external constraints.

He described Mr. Sawka as an "artist of the Communist diaspora" who never lost touch with an ideal notion — especially as seen from behind the Iron Curtain — of what the 1969 Woodstock music festival represented.

That may sound like a lot, but serious music collectors with huge numbers of CDs will probably never find a player that allows them to achieve that ideal notion of carrying around an entire CD collection.

Rather it is to acknowledge the ideal notion of care operative in this context and the problem with thinking it is always and everywhere achievable.

More important, however, is the enduring hold on our nation of the democratic ideal, the notion that "all men are created equal" — all men, not just men from certain ethnic groups or from aristocratic families.

What Trump had done was violate a core American ideal: the notion – not always honoured, admittedly – that no matter where your family came from, if you were born in the US or had come there and subscribed to its founding principles, then you were as American as a direct descendant of those who landed on Plymouth Rock.

As much as one might wish to lay claim to the sensibility of, say, Montaigne the ruminative philosopher's ideal, the notion of the essay as neutral attempt most of us Americans are Emersons: artful sermonizers, pathological point-makers, turntablists spinning the hits with future mischief in mind.

He retains as an ideal the notion that scientific knowledge is demonstrative and certain, an ideal he shares with the two main targets of his Essay, the Aristotelians and the Cartesians.

They spoke of stewardship -- architectural and otherwise -- and its responsibilities, and of the idea of Greenwich Village as an independent republic of bohemian ideals, a notion that has always loomed larger than the actual acreage that physically defines the neighborhood.