For storytellers, financiers make ideal rogues. The easiest way to make characters unappealing is to make them rich - shorthand for spoiled, picky, superior, and cold-hearted.
The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.
Feminists, I hasten to add, are not all bad. In fact, they are an ideal bellwether, an invaluable aid in helping me form opinions on issues that I don't have time to keep up with. If the feminists are for it, I'm against it; if the feminists are against it, I'm for it.
Shakespeare and Co dedicates itself to a shared, heady and outdated ideal that is scarce in our protective and fearful age.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.
Kmart is incredibly supportive of the Hispanic community and is therefore an ideal partner for my exclusive collection.
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
The feelings of the individual are the prime authority in ethics. 'If it feels good, do it' is the basic ethical ideal of humanism.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.
Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
Sting's my ideal man, because he's a real man.
The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.
In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case.
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings.
He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.
