Wise was presented to the company's representatives as something of an idealized 1950s woman.

The poem clearly struck a chord with Beethoven, whose personal life often centered on his yearnings for idealized and unattainable women.

His early idealized women seem like still lifes, and their eyes have a deadness that brings to mind the portraits of Modigliani.

He banished the cult of "the idealized woman" from his fashion pictures and redefined modern beauty.

The reality of the words overpowers dreamy images of idealized women who seem little more than mouths and legs.

"Japanese fringed pink") is a floral metaphor for "the idealized traditional Japanese woman".

But close-ups also reveal the outward life of the idealized woman and as such can also betray the ideal.

To Doerr's credit, he gives the female characters in his stories lives of their own, although the idealized woman is never far from the real one.

The idealized women are golden icons intended to be worshiped from a distance by an audience of men.

Cox himself painted many idealized women mostly in the form of the classic nude.