Sentence examples for ideal past from inspiring English sources

Some of the earliest continuous texts of the 4th and 5th dynasties show an awareness of an ideal past that the present could only aspire to emulate.

It is called social democracy, and while it represents neither an ideal future nor an ideal past, "it is better than anything else to hand".

Siegel stimulates our greed by showing us an ideal past that none of us had the foresight to achieve.

According to this approach, words in ideal, past society incorporated the core of the realities denoted by them, while the crisis of the Warring States period (475 221 BC) emerged from the growing discrepancies between the names (social positions) of individuals and their actual behavior.

It is yet another sobering lesson in how the accomplishments of civilization can be rolled back by the mad pursuit of pure states of being - whether of ideal pasts, utopian futures, races or religions.

These artists seem critical of previous generations, but at the same time deeply in thrall to them – almost fascinated by the ideals of the past, ideals perhaps missing from their own lives.

(6) Herder believes that an accurate investigation of the (non-moral) ideals of past ages can serve to enrich our own ideals and happiness.

"Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval," Jean Twenge and W. Keith Campbell, both professors of psychology, have written.

The results of such marriages of stage and stardom have not always been ideal, as this past season alone can testify.

Just as the fat-free dietary ideal of the past few decades has waned in recognition of nourishing, "good" fats, we're accepting the wisdom of feeding skin with what it naturally contains.

"There are some people who prefer no lawn, which is ideal!" For the past few decades, David Benner, a horticulturist from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has been touting moss as an alternative to grass: he himself has a one-acre "moss garden".