Sentence examples for lost ideal from inspiring English sources

Now we are all encouraged to be in search of that lost ideal, the Good Mother.

(In the documentary, Shawn, troubled by the omnipresent camera crew, explodes — politely — on behalf of the lost ideal of privacy).

Furtwängler was not the only reactionary on the block; his lost ideal was not Apollonian classicism or Baroque craftsmanship but what we might term the "symphonic sublime".

As the program zips along, fragments of famous tunes are stitched together into a patchwork celebrating this lost ideal, symbolized by the rather dull, but pretty six-song "Prince of My Dreams" medley.

Simultaneously a self-conscious fake and a man who deeply believes in the moral values his character represents, Mr. Eastwood's Bronco Billy is both a satirical self-portrait and a fond evocation of a lost ideal.

Detachment, an exploration of ideas in the flesh - whether a critique of society's treatment of gay men (Caravaggio, Edward II) or, as in The Last Of England, an anti-Thatcher polemic on England as a lost ideal.

A timeless classic about lost illusions, lost ideals, lost youth, now translated into English for the first time.

The Wardrobe in Bristol hosts Luke Wright's terrific tale of male friendship and lost ideals, What I Learned from Johnny Bevan.

But it was because he wanted to construct a bond, again, between himself and his lost ideals.

It's worth bringing to the story of the Goldsteins' lost ideals and lingering illusions our own layered memories and regrets.

Freud says that we go into mourning over lost ideals or figures, which include persons or even your country when it lets you down.