Sentence examples for ideal present from inspiring English sources

This exciting release is an ideal present.

If so, this could be the ideal present.

Its biographical insights, career anecdotes and generous quotations from his lyrics make it an ideal present for Neil Young fans.

Also available outside the ground at the Argentina v Portugal friendly at Old Trafford was this little number: An ideal present for those who are sitting on the fence when it comes to picking the world's best player.

The title of Uruphong Raksasad's "Agrarian Utopia" evokes the romance of rural toil, and also the political ideal, present in various Western back-to-the-land movements, of life lived close to the soil.

Again, Lidl has come up trumps with an iced cider from Quebec called Neige (9% abv) at £19.99 a half-bottle, while Wine Rack has the La Face Cachée de la Pomme Neige Cidre de Glace Récolte d'Hiver 2008 (9% abv) at £39.99 a half-bottle – that one would be the ideal present for a hard-to-please wine buff.

While these films rarely articulate overt political attitudes, they nonetheless reflect both a social reality and a social ideal, presenting a world where the obstacles of overt discrimination have fallen and where middle-class blacks are free to be themselves.

No trip I have since taken in my life has ever measured up to the ideal presented therein by Prof. W. W. Sherman's journey, in the custom-fitted luxury of his impossible balloon house, to the nonexistent, never-existed, long-vanished island of Krakatoa.

I want to see Bear Grylls looking for a decent state school for his child!" Perry said that the masculine ideal presented by shows such as The Island, in which Grylls is currently putting a third group of hapless contestants through survivalist hell, is making it harder for men to successfully negotiate modern life.

Modern scholarship has sometimes seen More as a "spoiled monk", yet there is a striking unity of purpose about More's early life; he could find a rationale for the combination of private study and prayer with public business in the ideal presented in the Epistle on Mixed Life by the Augustinian canon Walter Hilton (d. 1396), whose writings he recommends.

The story of a mysterious, sensational crime from a city's idealized past is told through the memories of people living in its less-than-ideal present.