classical ideal

collocation in English

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classical
adjective
uk
/ˈklæs.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈklæs.ɪ.kəl/
traditional in style or form, or based on methods developed over a long period of time, and considered to be of ...
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ideal
noun
uk
/aɪˈdɪəl/us
/aɪˈdiː.əl/
a principle or a way of behaving that is of a very ...
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Theclassicalidealturns out to be the ultra-clean sound ('every part of the orchestra gets perfectly reproduced').
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Within our own culture there is theclassicalidealof the all-round man—physically, mentally, æsthetically active.
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It is seen that all quantities approach the values for aclassicalidealgas in the limit of large temperature.
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Real fluids at low density and high temperature approximate the behavior of aclassicalidealgas.
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He had long practiced theclassicalidealof art and became known as a tyrant in his attitude toward young painters.
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The work clashed with theclassicalidealrequiring a dying hero to express stoic restraint.
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For example, a microstate of aclassicalidealgas is specified by the positions and momenta of all the atoms, which range continuously over the real numbers.
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He also turned his tonality more towards the classical ideals, rather than the more rural blue note.
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His figures are relatively short and stocky, and reflect little of classical ideals.
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Modern criticism at first compared the new works unfavourably with the classical ideals of the past but these standards were soon rejected as too artificial.
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