Thesaurus results for BEAU IDEAL

beau ideal

noun

ˌbō-ī-ˈdē(-ə)l

Definition of beau ideal

as in model

someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation she is the beau ideal of the dedicated medical professional

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the most perfect type or example Frank Lloyd Wright's most famous architectural creation, Falling Water, is widely regarded as the beau ideal of a building in harmony with its setting

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Recent Examples of beau ideal Carl Sandburg’s 1927 American Songbag featured a whole section of hobo songs presenting the bum as a beau ideal. — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026 The beau ideal of local graft was Hall’s boss, Fate Thomas, the Davidson County sheriff. — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 The beau ideal of illiberal democracy is, of course, Viktor Orbán of Hungary, who outlined the term in a 2014 speech. — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 31 Jan. 2024 At Délice & Sarrasin, a charming French bistro in the West Village, vegans can bide their time in style, enticing new recruits with the beau ideal of meatless haute cuisine. — David Kortava, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2021 If Hicks is the beau ideal in today’s MLB, then Miles Mikolas is a throwback to the Roosevelt administration. — Michael Beller, SI.com, 23 May 2018 Conservatives like to imagine Reagan as the beau ideal of a president who faithfully adhered to their principles, but Trump is the president who has actually done it. — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 23 Feb. 2018 If Teddy Roosevelt was the Harvard beau ideal at the turn of the last century, Mark Zuckerberg is the Harvard man to be in the new millennium. — William Stadiem, Town & Country, 2 Aug. 2016

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Trust took another nosedive when OpenAI’s agents attacked Hugging Face this summer and, in a world-first, a rogue model hacked the Australian Government’s website.

— Yerbol Orynbayev, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2026
Future product expansion for Scout For now, the Traveler and the Terra models are the main priority.

— Chase Jordan October 3, Charlotte Observer, 3 Oct. 2026

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The first statement is a far cry from anything one can imagine Mike Leigh saying; the second, at San Sebastián, felt a more universal ideal.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Sep. 2026
The portrait seems to place her on a stage, where she is expected to embody beauty ideals, social expectations, and conventions of the elite society of her time.

— Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 25 Sep. 2026

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As Reynolds notes, this freedom cut against rock’s foundational idea of immediacy, the direct communication of feeling between artist and audience.

— Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 4 Oct. 2026
Over time, Buddhism introduced ideas of reincarnation and karmic retribution, linking a person's fate after death to their actions in life.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026

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Miramax’s greater value likely lies in its library, which includes prestige pictures and cult classics like Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting, and Gangs of New York.

— Andrew McGowan, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
At Mish Delicatessen on La Brea Avenue, chef Eric Greenspan reimagines Jewish deli classics with influences spanning North America, the Levant and Europe.

— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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The long history of psychedelics and religion is filled with scientists, anthropologists, mystics, shamans, outlaws, and prophets, but these two men are, more than any others, the patron saints of our current psychedelic revival.

— Claire Hoffman, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2026
This year marks the 100th edition of the Feast of San Gennaro, which celebrates the patron saint of Naples and has been hosted on Mulberry Street since Italian immigrants began the tradition.

— Ian Servantes, Footwear News, 17 Sep. 2026

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Tyrome Laundersville – who missed his parents in Iowa – is another example of someone who got key help from an adult outside the foster care system.

— Joseph Shapiro, NPR, 3 Oct. 2026
This edition of the AJC On Campus Roundup looks at one recent example from the University of Georgia, where a study found that people who use social media for investment advice should proceed with caution.

— Jason Armesto, AJC.com, 3 Oct. 2026

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From this perspective, conventional quantum formalism can be understood as a mathematics of manifestation.

— Pravir Malik, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
The 1905 law explicitly mentions religious ceremonies, processions and other outdoor manifestations as subject to the ordinary rules governing public order.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 Sep. 2026

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