Simon is described in these letters as an ideal Cynic-type figure.

He is the ideal figure for tracking the rise of American popular culture.

I bet more than half of you don't even have that ideal figure of how a man or a woman "should" look.

Overweight she wasn't, unless a No. 2 pencil is to be considered the ideal figure for women athletes.

When psychologists ask American women to pick their ideal female figure, they'll choose a body that's thinner than average.

The ideal figure changed, and women were expected to be more slender.

Complex systems were invented to define what was considered an 'ideal' figure.

But here she was like a beacon, an ideal figure, and he couldn't help thinking about her.

They have this ideal figure of a woman that's very different from reality.

A. What is admired as the ideal feminine figure has changed considerably in my lifetime.