Europhile Guardianistas suffused by high-minded, not to say laughably pious and unrealistic, ideals?

The journal Leonardo noted some feminists' negative reaction to her design; though males were identifying with their feminine side through Croft, she reinforced unrealistic ideals about the female body.

I bet if your self-image was tied to your physical appearance, judged against an unrealistic ideal put forth by the media, you'd do whatever you could to maintain that ideal.

This impracticality is part of a larger tendency to delay immediate pleasures in the name of unrealistic ideals.

Ms. Rizzo wondered if her generation had unrealistic ideals after growing up on movie-style love.

"It's time to accept and embrace the many wonderful variations of bodies, rather than strive to conform to the unrealistic ideals determined by the cosmetic, fashion and diet industries," they wrote.

Women, Dr. Brownell said, must "uncouple their body esteem from their basic self-esteem," and realize how destructive these unrealistic ideals can be.

Jackson & Wheeler aims to please all comers, a noble, if unrealistic ideal.

In the past under Ceaucescu Romania was a country ill-at-ease with itself, a nation distorted by unrealistic ideals and legislation.