Neither the theatre nor the cinema nor poetry nor narrative fiction pays allegiance to its ideal of excellence in the tyrannical way that music does.
What sustains them is not only individual pluck and discipline, but the solidarity, the support, of family and an ideal of excellence and commitment passed on from one generation to the next.
Having a higher thought model, an ideal of excellence in all aspects of health care, is the first step toward improving today's health care system and our own health practices.
So far, so "corporate product that's the antithesis of the ideals of physical excellence the Olympics is supposedly about", you might say.
"We thought about the ideals of youth, excellence and internationalism and we've got a good start because we already run the Britten-Pears Young Artists Programme which is one of the biggest projects in the world to nurture young professional musicians".
The university also issued her parents a diploma-like certificate recognizing Green for her embodiment of Penn State ideals of academic excellence, athletic success with honor and compassionate civic leadership.
Following Jesuit ideals of academic excellence, the importance of the liberal arts, and the education of the whole person, the Center for Service and Social Justice participates in numerous community and campus initiatives.
We are so obsessed with preserving some ideal of natural excellence that we have forgotten, in Heggie's words, how "completely artificial all sport actually is".
Crummell's view thus seems less a Platonic ideal of moral excellence than an Aristotelian tolerance of moral failure.
By modeling his black hero on himself as opposed to an ideal of racial excellence like Black Panther or blaxploitation stereotypes like Luke Cage, McFarlane tapped into a humanity with Spawn that is rarely granted to black characters when they are being written by white men, who often other their personalities into obtuse caricatures.
