We seem to fall so short of measuring up to certain religious ideals in our own world.

Education, too, can be directed to encouraged certain ideals.

Fashion - political and otherwise - changes, but certain universal ideals seem to have remained fairly intact throughout human history.

It's something that has a function and that embodies certain ideals.

We still believed in certain ideals regarding the free market.

It is a grown-up valentine to a certain ideal of city life.

The actor sought to find "the part of Terence that would be prepared to fall on his sword for certain ideals".

He also embodied a certain ideal of friendliness which I found very seductive.

There are strong female characters, but they have to also conform to certain ideals of the feminine.

She is also something of an idealist, believing in certain ideals as justice.