| Any work of art which represents or realizes a material object, is, in the primary sense of the term, unideal. |
| Tuckerman speaks of this portrait as inelegant and unflattering, and characterizes the artist as unideal, but conscientious. |
| Their obstreperous loyalty might seem inconsistent with this unideal character, but it is only seeming. |
| The unideal attitude of her father and mother toward one another was one of her great sorrows. |
| Hemingway's depictions give tactical weight to Kenneth Clark's idea that a modern landscape needs to be unideal. |
| David Playing the Harp before Saul in the Mauritshuis is to me a most moving painting, with that remorse-crazed eye of the king and its unideal but beautifully realistic-looking, concentrated young harpist. |
