1.   A plant becomes part of the larder only if it conforms to cultural ideals of pleasant taste and texture.

2.   After the collapse of the twin towers, a very different kind of masculinity became the cultural ideal.

3.   All teenagers have difficulties with self-esteem, but black girls face unique obstacles, from non-African cultural ideals of beauty to pressure to conform to antisocial expectations.

4.   But monogamous marriage remained the triumphant cultural ideal.

5.   Families mark the occasion with five activities, including reinforcing their bonds, commemorating the past, recommitting to cultural ideals and celebrating the good life.

6.   However, given contemporary cultural ideals, it is equally appropriate to depict this God as Mother.

7.   In an age of absorption in self, sex and body, some push the cultural ideal of a perfect body too far by obsessing about exercise.

8.   And the other way Hollywood has exhibited its undeniable power, says Hoffman, is in setting unrealistic, racist cultural ideals.

9.   The West has been seen as a crusader for its own cultural ideals or for concealed hegemonic intentions.