It is a belief that that German national ideal is the best for all other people, and that the Germans have a right to impose it by the force of their armies.

His ideal was a kind of natural religion, in which God appears as the ultimate source of the beautiful and hardly as a being having any other relation to man.

His ideal was passive contemplation rather than active mental exertion.

Helbig, who, in his book on Campanische Wandmalerei, enforces the testimony of literature with the inferences that can be drawn from mural paintings and vases, remarks (258) that the favorite poetic ideals of the time are tender youths with milk-white complexion, rosy cheeks and long, soft tresses.

Art aims at expressing an ideal; and this ideal is the transfiguration of human elements into something nobler, felt and apprehended by the imagination.

The idea of justice emerges gradually from the sentiment of justice: it has two elements, one brute or positive, with inequality as its ideal, one human or negative, the ideal of which is equality.

As extremes often meet, the view of the industrial trust as a natural evolution is most favored on the one hand by men of "big business," already interested financially in trusts, and on the other hand by the most radical communists (or socialists) whose ideal is the complete monopolization of industry under the government. § 14.

This ideal was the supremacy of religion over life and all its activities, over the state and the individual alike.

Now John's ideal John is not a bit like Thomas's ideal John, and neither of them is like the real John, and so it comes about that John and Thomasthat is, you and Iget at cross purposes.

Kapodistrias' ideal was the fin-de-siècle 'police-state'; but 'official circles' did not exist in Greece, and he had no acquaintance with the peasants and sailors whom he hoped to redeem by bureaucracy.

As respects all things else, the poet's ideal was the truest truth.

It would not be long before the ideal of the negro would be individual freedom, not race freedom, as it is the white man's ideal now.

Each century has its special ideal, the ideal of the nineteenth is a young man.

Their highest ideal was not the feminine but the masculine type, and accordingly we find that it was toward men only that they professed to feel a noble passion.

And such is your love; but you give the proof of it with shame, because your ideal of love is a humdrum sort of affection.

In other words, it leads to the belief that "the Ideal is the only Real."

With the growth of democracy, particularly during the Reformation, the ideal of education as the birthright of every child became well defined and during the years that have intervened, this ideal has become a living reality.

An ideal of perfect competition became an idol to which much human flesh and blood were sacrificed.

Matthew, whose ideal was a delicate woman with observable shoulder blades, had also, by repeated sights of Mrs. Frump, become reconciled to her ample proportions.

I do not for a moment pretend to think that our national ideals are very exalted ones nowadays.

His ideal of success was wealth and worldly position, things to which the poet was, on the contrary, abnormally indifferent.

The ideal of such theorists is an impossible condition where the country would constantly sell and never buy.

His ideal of success was wealth and worldly position, things to which the poet was, on the contrary, abnormally indifferent.

The ideal of democracy is a great ideal, but the working of democracy has been a failure because, amongst other things, it has tried to carry on without the aid of true aristocracy.

The American political ideal became a Cincinnatus whom nobody sent for and who therefore never left his plough.