ideal element
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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As the lightest metal on the periodic table, and the one most eager to shed its electrons, lithium is the ideal element to make powerful, portable batteries.
From Nature ● Oct. 27, 2015
On the other hand, to the poet who denies the ideal element in life altogether, the unifying influence of love is indispensable.
From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins
Denying that life has an ideal element, they take pains to mirror it, line for line, and blemish for blemish.
From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins
Yet the indications are that this art of arts had its origin, as far back as the days of savagery, in the ideal element of life rather than the utilitarian.
From Ballad Book by Katherine Lee Bates
Mr. Parker's ministry had three periods, in each of which the ideal element was the attraction.
From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
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