Word: ideally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.-Lady Markby in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband...
...tried to set quite a few fashions himself, might have been amused to know that last week Moscow took the same disapproving view of him and his works as his most disapproving Victorian contemporaries ever did. For stooping to put on a brilliant performance of his entertaining An Ideal Husband, the famed Moscow Art Theater shivered under simultaneous critical broadsides from the 16-inch guns of Izvestia and Pravda...
...beliefs before the law as a matter of right and not as a matter of favor. I believe in the absolute separation of Church and State." Even those who safeguard their orthodoxy most carefully need not believe that Church and State, though their union be a Christian ideal sub specie aeternitatis, can be prudently wed until the final earthly triumph of the City of God-which may perhaps arrive just before Judgment...
...Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce said sadly: "It's unfortunate UNO couldn't have picked a place where it would be more welcome." The New York Times dug up the fact, and printed it as a broad hint, that "Mr. Roosevelt felt that the Azores would be an ideal place for a world capital...
...diplomat appraised Lie as "a man with guts; no political or other culture; not the ideal man; but the best available, since it finally had to be a European." Old-style diplomats found him uncouth but impressive, "a rough diamond." The difference between Lie and smooth, aristocratic Sir Eric Drummond, first Secretary General of the League of Nations, might mark the difference between UNO and the League...