His sculptures reflected truth and reality, but also ancient classical aesthetic ideals from which he learned from Washington Allston.

They use ancient ideals to help them define or justify themselves.

Mogaba shamed them greatly by letting pride and vanity seduce him away from the ancient ideals of the Nar.

Blade was very nearly the best living example of the ancient ideal of "a sound mind in a sound body."

According to ancient Arabic ideals, hair should be long, thick, and a rich raven color.

They are our fleeting glimpses of utopia; the ancient ideals of caritas and community lived in microcosm.

Without being himself a nationalist, Rousseau helped to recast the ancient ideal of citizenship in a form such that the national sentiment could appropriate it.

But more than that, it revealed the one who would inflict such wounds as beneath the ancient ideals of Ander honor.

That re-emphasis, I believe, has practical value when judges seek to assure fidelity, in our modern society, to these ancient and unchanging ideals.

Humanists wanted to reinstate the ancient ideal of civic virtue through education.