Otherwise there is no intrinsic connection between the group of people clustering round Mordecai, and that of which Gwendolen is the centre: unless it be that the author wished to show the greater intensity of aim and higher moral worth of the Jews as contrasted with these purposeless, worldly, Unideal Christians of the nineteenth century.
"George Eliot"
Mathilde Blind
The purely earthly Unideal life is represented as a life of men tied neck and heels from birth in a cave, having their backs to the light, and their eyes fixed only on the shadows which are cast upon the wall.
"A Short History of Greek Philosophy"
John Marshall
Here and there, however, a passage in his letters suggests the inference, that the character of the gallant mercenary was toned to his profession, and to the Unideal epoch in which he lived.
"The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada"
Francis Parkman