Dear
Dear noun - A person with whom one is in love.
Ideal
Ideal noun - Someone of such unequaled perfection as to deserve imitation.
How words are described
| beautiful | beautiful dear | beautiful ideal |
Both words in one sentence
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Edel has to grapple with his son rejecting every ideal he holds dear, then running away from home.
Source: Series / Deutschland 83 - In his only opera, Fidelio, Beethoven made use of two themes dear to him: freedom, and the concept of the spiritually ideal woman.The opera has a troubled history.
Source: Theatre / Fidelio -
In The Dear Sweetie Belle Continuity, Twilight's research indicates that all alicorns are vulnerable to this if they swing too far to an extreme of the ideal or magic they are meant to personify, explaining Nightmare Moon.
Source: Super-Powered Evil Side
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