1.   But she, too, felt compelled to whip herself into the dominant feminine ideal.

2.   Through their various plights, the drama questions a world where feminine ideals regularly defy rational explanation.

3.   And I thought about how today all women are under pressure to try to resemble the feminine ideal.

4.   Anne Robinson, a crisp, dominating drillmaster with a wicked tongue, is not your standard feminine ideal.

5.   As the embodiment of the feminine ideal, the sylph became an idee fixe of romantic poets.

6.   Before they ever walk into a gym, a rink or a dance studio, girls have been bombarded with fashion images selling stick figures as a feminine ideal.

7.   Clinton is the antithesis of that GOP feminine ideal, being independent, outspoken, and as smart and tough as her husband.

8.   Ms. Kistler embodied the feminine ideal in streamlined form, and Zelensky, in one of his most complex partnering assignments, was especially polished.

9.   Never mind that Marshello lives in a city that celebrates boyish hips and protruding ribs as the feminine ideal.