Sentence examples for nice ideal from inspiring English sources

Edward Mechmann, a lawyer for the archdiocese, said he objected to the "overall lesson" of the city's program, "that abstinence is a nice ideal".

Experience has shown, she argues, that solutions to the environmental problems that plague poor people lie neither with government nor with business, but rather with the poor themselves if they are given the power to change their circumstances.It is a nice ideal.

What a nice ideal -- shame he didn't live up to such a strong statement.

"That would be nice, ideal for us, if we can take care of business now," Crawford said.

The incongruousness of this stance with actual experience creates stresses for palliative care staff, as does any attempt to live up to the nice ideal (Speck, 1999).

But most of all we're taking our leap in the dark because we've belatedly realised that the sermon on the mount might actually be a manifesto for life, rather than a few nice ideals to take out for a spin on a Sunday morning.

I thought I'd wanted that, but now I wondered if immersion was just a nice-sounding ideal.

While it's a nice idea, it's a deeply flawed ideal that sets up an impossible standard and puts undue pressure on you both.

An hour is a nice round unit, ideal for the building of a programme.

We think of him, above all, as we do of Thomas More: a nice guy, an ideal intellect.

"It would be nice and obviously ideal to put in a good showing while he's over here with Brisbane and playing against us but it's a long old season and one good game doesn't make a campaign.