What's the difference between flawless and ideal?

Flawless


Definition:

  • (a.) Free from flaws.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The story to me is that Disney and Lucasfilm are acting rationally, confidently and not cocky.” Poor critical reactions to the film may even end up being irrelevant to its opening figures, though Abrams’s flawless track record suggests the film is likely to be well-reviewed.
  • (2) It was to keep men more committed and less likely to abandon their wives and children – and I doubt that we have become so flawless that this no longer matters,” he said – as part of an explanation as to why marriage is not necessary for same-sex couples to express their love, or the “fidelity and permanence” of their relationship.
  • (3) The new national curriculum is not flawless, to be sure.
  • (4) Yet, of all the great British stage actors, his was the busiest film career, for which his modest way of acting was flawless.
  • (5) Updated at 12.58am GMT 12.54am GMT Living up to their seeding It was not a flawless performance from Seattle, who struggled to move the ball through the air after Percy Harvin left the game, and who certainly did not dominate New Orleans as they had earlier in the season.
  • (6) In my view he has led our party in government, not flawlessly of course, but with a skill no one else in British politics could have matched and a grace under fire which should make us proud.
  • (7) The Russian's execution was flawless throughout and every shot he struck here hit the net.
  • (8) The patient produced semantic paraphasias in repetition and could read both words and nonwords flawlessly.
  • (9) Does goalline technology work or doesn’t it?” he raged, as a replay showed the system working flawlessly.
  • (10) Grilled meats ( txuleta means chop) are where he excels, but at the sleek interior bar you can also order flawlessly presented pintxos of seasonal produce.
  • (11) The service itself, running at more than two hours, was an almost flawless spectacle, yet curiously shrunken.
  • (12) The first requirement-and a difficult one-is to make nearly flawless crystals of the protein or nucleic acid under study.
  • (13) The new venues, including an architecturally gorgeous velodrome and stadium, were built ahead of time and have worked flawlessly.
  • (14) All accusations against me were fully investigated and my performance as editor of this journal was shown to be flawless."
  • (15) The artist LeRoy Neiman observed: “Suddenly he resembles a piece of classical sculpture with no flaw or imperfection, his features and limbs flawless and perfectly proportioned.” The engaging nature, too, began to resonate as Clay cut a swathe through the well-selected heavyweights’ Second Division and he allowed his ego full rein on self-promotion.
  • (16) Manchester United ,a club besotted with its flamboyant heritage, could not produce an evening's worth of flawless security.They fell short by seconds and so tumbled out of the Champions League on a 3 -2 aggregate.Sir Alex Ferguson's team had been ahead on the away-goal rule as this match entered its last minute.
  • (17) Scotland and Gordon Strachan would always value success over Georgia far more than a flawless performance.
  • (18) In some cases, they’ve also longed for Barbie’s blue eyes and flawlessly applied brown eye shadow, her perfect hourglass figure, long and shiny blonde hair and thigh gap, too.
  • (19) But, after stuttering in December, they have been flawless in the league and FA Cup this month, scoring 17 goals in their four fixtures against Watford, Sunderland, Preston North End and Birmingham.
  • (20) Although the patient's ultimate outcome after ruptured AAA is partly determined before intervention of the physician, efforts to address events resulting in death after admission by improving rapid diagnosis, early resuscitation, and prompt flawless surgery can increase survival.

Ideal


Definition:

  • (a.) Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
  • (a.) Reaching an imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless; as, ideal beauty.
  • (a.) Existing in fancy or imagination only; visionary; unreal.
  • (a.) Teaching the doctrine of idealism; as, the ideal theory or philosophy.
  • (a.) Imaginary.
  • (n.) A mental conception regarded as a standard of perfection; a model of excellence, beauty, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
  • (2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
  • (3) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
  • (4) As bacterial vaginosis is generally looked upon as a mild noninflammatory condition lactate-gel seems to be an ideal treatment for this disease.
  • (5) Using four 4 cm electrodes at intervals of 1.5 cm in VX-2 carcinoma in the rabbit, ideal heating was obtained: 42 degrees C at the periphery of the tumor and 43 degrees C at the center.
  • (6) The regimen used at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, provides 2.0 to 2.5 gm protein per kilogram ideal body weight, plus adequate fluid and nutrient supplements.
  • (7) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
  • (8) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
  • (9) From a practical viewpoint, this approach to prevention is less than ideal because it results in considerable costs as health care providers monitor for possible hepatotoxic effects and because it is difficult to maintain compliance for 12 months.
  • (10) Ideally, the rule should classify all nonhyperplastic and mildly hyperplastic cases as nonprogressive and all carcinomas as progressive; there were, however, a considerable number of false positives and false negatives based on application of the classification rule to these cases.
  • (11) Whether we would use that to support and amplify the community ideals already present or go the way of gentrification remained to be seen.
  • (12) Gallium arsenide has proved to be an ideal substrate material for some uses but is associated with unique health hazards.
  • (13) The ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by the following formula: ideal body mass index x the height (m)2, since body mass index is expressed by the body weight in kilogram divided by the height squared in meters.
  • (14) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
  • (15) Therefore, it is an ideal method for the isolation of cell cycle phase specific populations.
  • (16) Without suggesting an ideal medication for this syndrome, the authors have obtained good results with barbexaclone.
  • (17) Actions achieved or a long commitment to an ideal, often through hardship.
  • (18) The integrated sensing system is an ideal instrumental set up for viewing and recording the behaviour of rodents as well as other animals in the experimental pen throughout the year under varying weather and light conditions.
  • (19) This experiment investigated people's preferences for the location of facilities in an ideal town.
  • (20) Need Score for each content area was calculated by taking the difference between Ideal and Current Expertise responses.