The ideal person had the ideally proportioned mixture of the four; a predominance of one produced a person who was sanguine (Latin sanguis, "blood"), phlegmatic, choleric, or melancholic.
All this naming mitigates the ideally selfless spirit, if not the fact, of such giving.
Here's to the "ideally bald" characters of the past and present.
And chamber music in the ideally intimate Philosophy Hall is what chamber music is supposed to be.
The great Nietzsche setting, with Bernarda Fink the ideally hieratic contralto soloist, generated genuine mystery and awe.
I wish I didn't think about race and racism so much, especially regarding children and the ideally race-free spaces they inhabit.
Then try the idyllic blending of greens, cheese, fruit and nuts in the ideally light salad of endive, pear, Roquefort and candied walnut ($8).
The nickname proved well taken because physically Bohemond was the ideally tall and strong knight in the words of a contemporary, "a wonderful spectacle".
There will be more Ives -- the ideally titled "Washington's Birthday" (a movement of Ives' 1913 "Holidays" Symphony) -- plus Henry Cowell's "Hymn and Fuguing Tune No. 2" and the gracious "Suite in E" by Arthur Foote.
Occasionally, in some of the lower-lying phrases at the start of Brünnhilde's immolation, there was a lack of the ideally resonant projection, but once she had warmed up fully Brewer was unstinting and glorious.
It satirizes the utopian fantasies of mid-20th-century design and suggests, with all the lactating mammary imagery, that the impulse to create environments of holistic harmony may be driven less by formalist rationality than by infantile yearning for the ideally nurturing mother.
