There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him.
My ideal travel companions are my family.
Some husbands regard it as their prerogative to compel their wives to fit their standards of what they think to be the ideal.
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
Seventy per cent humidity is ideal for vocal cords.
To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.
For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.
Food manufacturing is an ideal candidate for targeted accelerated depreciation because the food industry, our biggest industry, creates significant flow-on benefits.
In an ideal world, I would constantly be doing different characters in different worlds.
The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form.
Ethanol's not an ideal fuel.
No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
Tart and sweet, tinged with the faint scent of almonds and flowers, the Blenheim is the ideal apricot for both eating and preserving.
A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.