How To Use Idealistic In A Sentence

There are parallels with Preston Tucker, the idealistic American inventor.
He set forth an idealistic view of society.
It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
It is very idealistically that we can all be liberated that comes from the philosophical understanding of life itself. Stacey Nemour: Shaolin Kung Fu: An Interview With Abbot Shi Yongxin

Is it naively idealistic to imagine a British prime minister taking on such a Herculean burden?
She was an over-weight middle-aged woman with a grown son, who like me had idealistically returned to college later in life. Menace Poster | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
But that is an idealistic view. Times, Sunday Times
This may sound too idealistic, but you and a partner can take a major step toward it. The Sun
A handful of idealistic hacks questioned the journalistic ethics of accepting freebies, but they no longer work at the paper.
The third version, unlike the more idealistic first and second vesions, intoroduces terms such as the unconscious, inhibition, and crisis, contains a crucial section on mesmerism, and is structured around the trauma of onto - and phylogenesis. Article Abstracts
It can, admittedly, be hard to distinguish between being idealistic and being unrealistic.
He was no wheeler-dealer; more of an idealistic scholar whose linguistic gifts were so remarkable, and hence so subversive, that he was drawn into high religious politics.
An idealistic student tries to bring back his creativity, while his secretary attempts to drag him out of his mopery.
This movement - established by the idealistic pioneer-immigrants at the beginning of the 20th century - grew into a large federate organisation that became the backbone of the labour movement.
Cynics may sneer at the idealistic thought that three musicians sitting in the Wigmore can heal a torn world. Times, Sunday Times
It can, admittedly, be hard to distinguish between being idealistic and being unrealistic.
Idealistic your German soldier Hans Vollmer joins the front on the eve of the invasion of Russia, unaware that darked things than the enemy stalk the battlefields. Archive 2008-01-01
There can be no doubt that the cold and bitter strength of Sallust; his unflinching method of building up his edifice of invective, stone by stone; his close, unidealistic, dry penetration into character; his clinical attitude, unmoved at the death-bed of a reputation; that all these qualities were directly operative on the mind and intellectual character of Ibsen, and went a long way to mould it while moulding was still possible. Henrik Ibsen
He is a German refugee, a Jewish scientist specialising in relativity and its conundrums; she is a doctor's daughter, musical, ambitious, idealistic.
Louis was a dreamer, idealistic and introspective; Zelie was more extroverted, possessed of formidable energy and strength of will. RIDDLE ME THIS
In the novel, scenes of daily hardship alternate with those of stronger historical forces colliding: officers of the secret police rounding up suspected counter-revolutionaries as the city's inhabitants starve; ragged soldiers fighting without adequate ammunition or food; officials studying the files of suspects and reading anonymous denunciations through the night in the only heated building in the city; ambitious party bureaucrats eliminating their enemies; idealistic revolutionaries explaining away gross injustices as "historical necessity. The Revolutionary Novelist
This is the unidealistic version; as always she is richly sexual -- the very timbre as well as her masterly deployment of it (listen to the chalumeau of 'Nachtgespenster' and 'laenger') make one see and feel the disordered bed, the sultry night, the sensual coils. Les lignes, les couleurs, les sons deviennent vagues
The significance of adolescent idealistic feelings for adolescent behavior are explored later in this chapter in the discussion of adolescent egocentrism.
The idealism and incorruptibility of "Ransom Stoddard" is embedded in Stewart's iconic role as the idealistic young senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and other movies like You Can't Take It with You, from his pre-World-War-II career, particularly his Frank Capra movies, yet also inflected with the toughness and desperation he brought to his own post-war Westerns such as The Naked Spur. Mira Schor: Will Obama Shoot Liberty Valance?
By contrast, Jaidee, the so-called Tiger of Bangkok, is the pugnaciously idealistic captain of the white shirts, determined to preserve his country against the onslaught of foreign influence and corruption. Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl," winner of the Nebula Award
While idealistically a lifting body or such would seem best, remember that you are carrying a great amount of mass into orbit with any such vehicle that is only used for the recovery. How Best to Access the ISS-and LEO? - NASA Watch
If you like cheesy disaster movies and idealistic costume drama, this is the hybrid for you!
On its simplest level, it traces two calamitous marriages: one between the sweet, idealistic Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey) and priggishly meanspirited Rev. Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide), the other pairing equally idealistic Dr. Tertius Lydgate (Douglas Hodge) with the wretchedly selfish Rosamond Vincy (Trevyn McDowell). By George, We've Got It
The idealistic egalitarian part of me likes the idea of a more neutral auxiliary language whether esperanto, interlingua or even latin. Languagehat.com: TRANSLATING EUROPE'S BABEL.
Is the whole idea that there possibly could be something more to it just some idealistic fairytale notion?
It is strange that this exaggerated weight attributed to Islam, stands in sharp contradiction with their idealistic European notion of 'indiscrimination'. Gates of Vienna
All becomes clear later and we settle down onto familiar prison drama territory with mouthy cons, bent screws and idealistic governors.
The idealistic writers who marched through the streets in 1989 are now luminaries of the literary establishment. Times, Sunday Times
Police had been cracking down on dissidents, and the idealistic young Italian may not have realised the potential danger he was in. Times, Sunday Times
Politics, aesthetics, literature were all preoccupations for these privileged and idealistic young people. Times, Sunday Times
I was so young and idealistic and I wanted to change the world. Times, Sunday Times
The square or useful hand, the spatulate or active hand, the philosophic or knotty hand, the conic or artistic hand, the psychic or idealistic hand, the mixed hand, and the elementary or lowest hand.
Adolescent thought initially is idealistic-logical, and often it is manifest in criticism of society and an elaboration of ideal worlds.
The story has become a cautionary tale for any idealistic young cartoonist working in Hollywood today.
Donegan is swift to rebut accusations of idealistic, bleeding - heart liberalism.
Beethoven was blunt, irascible, and ambitious, though good-natured, noble-minded, and idealistic.
Ex-radicals usually ascribe their evolution to the inevitable giving way of idealistic youth to responsible maturity.
Politicians (those few of an idealistic bent) complain that people are too apathetic.
Peace was the mission of idealistic youth movements of the 1960s and 1970s, and the cause of peace may even have been hurt by overdone sloganeering and posturing.
And it's all thanks to one exuberant, idealistic man -- Doug Taylor, executive pastry chef at the Batali-Bastianich Hospitality Group's three Las Vegas restaurants: B & B, Carnevino, and Enoteca San Marco. Kerry Trueman: Meet Mario Batali's Las Vegas Visionary
By doing all of this, the Grotian school is supposed to negotiate a middle way between bare-knuckled "Machiavellianism" and excessively idealistic Hugo Grotius
In the Eighties, idealistic young programmers made the code behind their software publicly available for others to improve. Times, Sunday Times
She was born in America and had idealistic views. Times, Sunday Times
Cynics may sneer at the idealistic thought that three musicians sitting in the Wigmore can heal a torn world. Times, Sunday Times
(later tampered with to make it idealistically, which is something else), but he was a materialist and had translated Topping Shakespeare? Aspects of the Nobel Prize for Literature
Calm objectivity combined with idealistic vision results in a genuine interest for scientific ingenuity and a natural instinct for fair-mindedness.
Melanie cleans office buildings but dreams of a better life that Teddo, an idealistic and impractical dreamer, cannot provide.
Caroline Sydenstricker had set sail for the Orient as an idealistic young bride with only the haziest notion about what a missionary career might entail. PEARL BUCK IN CHINA
That may sound idealistic but it shouldn't be. Times, Sunday Times
In my opinion, the artist has a duty to maintain an idealistic view of the world. Times, Sunday Times
On the domestic front, their idealistic Ward ‘n June Cleaver fantasy may have been conservative while we were still in spitting distance of the 50’s, but at this point it makes about as much sense as trying to turn society Martian. Think Progress » Bachmann: Bill Clinton Is Trying To ‘Celebrate’ The Oklahoma City Bombing And ‘Take [Me] Out’
He set forth an idealistic view of society.
Fontinell deplores the misconceptions of Pragmatism which characterize the movement as “a kind of unfeeling, unprincipled, non-idealistic, expediental response to human problems”.
At the very heart of the idealistic enterprise was a source of potential difficulty and discord.
In business, the pragmatic approach to problems is often more successful than an idealistic one.
Now if you put that case before the people of the United States and show them that without the League of Nations it is not worth while completing the treaty we are making in Paris, then you have got an argument which even an unidealistic people would respond to, and ours is not an unidealistic people but the most idealistic people in the world. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him
Yet, for many immigrants who came to America some two decades ago, often as dewy-eyed idealistic students, this is beginning to happen.
PROJECT STATEMENT: A landscape design reinterpreting the idealistic Chinese lifestyle and responding sensitively to the context.
That such an unidealistic enterprise should not flourish on American soil is worth noting. The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth
To brush this consideration aside as idealistic and impractical would be to miss the truth that there is, on occasion, nothing so practical as the right ideal.
AMATOYA is an idealistic concept, yet it does address a number of issues in the field of fire appliance design that seem to beg attention.
He seems increasingly to distrust the idealistic visions of humanity that typify his early works.
Combining a depressing ending and austere realism with an idealistic, descriptive story is one of Hemingway's particulars of style.
Such is the nature of our intimate, carking, rueful relationship with William Holden, on the surface one of the Hollywood century's typical all-purpose leading men, but beneath it the keeper of poisoned secrets, and a living embodiment of America's postwar self-doubt and idealistic failure. William Holden--noir hero?
It is hard to square the idealistic hardman with the fear and loathing he commanded at the time. Times, Sunday Times
These are not idealistic people, hungry for elections and free speech. Times, Sunday Times
Call me an idealistic peacenik, but I don't see the difference: If you don't want to have your soldiers killed, don't send them in the first place.
I suppose I have been guilty myself of expediency, in being less than idealistically all-embracing of the boat-people issue!
Almost single-handedly, he reconnected with the positive and idealistic instincts of middle-class Americans.
She's young, naive and an idealistic dreamer. Times, Sunday Times
I mean, there is, I think a sense in the country that promoting liberty is the right place for America to be both idealistically and practically.
The scheme was criticized as too idealistic and impracticable.
It is this sort of overblown idealistic rhetoric that makes me worry - and the evidence that people are gullible enough to swallow it. The Sun
He had begun to elaborate an idealistic policy of service to the world, not unreminiscent of the altruistic schemes of Clay and Webster for assisting oppressed republicans in Europe during the first third of the nineteenth century. Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times.
The series follows idealistic teacher Will as he takes over a school's ailing music club. The Sun
Does this mean that active learning is, as Mattson characterizes it, an idealistic sham perpetuated by Pollyannaish administrators and workshop facilitators?
Idealistically believing we could usher in an Aquarian Age of Love was perhaps naive, but was not, and is not now, irresponsible.
As for Isaac Erter himself, his ashes are buried in a cemetery near the kibbutz where he spent his idealistic youth. LOADED QUESTIONS
I idealistically said that money was not a factor.
For everything else you might say about Sun, this is a noble idealistic and inspiring aspiration.
Yet the claims made by the two administrations were the result of distortion of intelligence findings, not their purblind acceptance by idealistic politicians.
But Bush's main logic is that war is necessary, and I think more and more we'll hear the accompanying claim that it can also be beneficial in the idealistic ways that Bob Kaplan described. Proceed With Caution
Like, the ones where some idealistic young couple moves to a creaky old New England house from the Midwest and they thing everything's gonna be awesome and countryfied but actually they're about to get chomped. The Big Photo Post of Moving DOOM
This sounds idealistic, of course, but voting isn't something that should take one day.
These new schools have been set up by idealistic people who are determined to give parents the kind of choice that only the rich can currently afford. Times, Sunday Times
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money. - Raymond Chandler
Parable of the Talents starts in a peaceful religious community led by Lauren Olamina, an empath who founds a faith called Earthseed; Jarret's troops turn this idealistic village into a concentration camp for "heathens" and "witches. MIND MELD: Bad Guys We Love to Hate: The Best Literary Villains in SF/F/H
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne becomes coolly exceptional in her idealistic determination to lie beyond the common ground of social expectations, unlike her betrayer, the Reverend Dimmesdale who wallows in self-recriminations, guilt and discomfort, as if he had taken the conventional female role in relation to illicit passion. And Again, Love « Tales from the Reading Room
Both are narcissistic outsiders who profess idealism while behaving un-idealistically. Carlos And Zuckerberg: The Men, Myths, Movies
Sort of like the scene early in the movie where everyone's young and idealistic and swears they'll never abandon their liberal principles, then one of them gets kind of shifty-eyed . . . When Legends Gather #546
Smith was realistic about human nature and idealistic about the necessity for the exercise of conscience in the marketplace.
Daisies is a prime example of a film that typifies the Czech New Wave - anti-authoritarian, joyous, idealistic and brilliant.
‘It sounds idealistically trite now,’ she says.
These groups and leaders are neither idealistic dreamers nor neo-hippie do-gooders.
The idealistic theatre troupe travels to Sarajevo, and its fate confirms the impotence of art in the presence of ammo.
My thinking was skewed by idealistic dreams rather than realistically assessing the situation. Christianity Today
She is young and idealistic, with a naive belief that she can save the world. Times, Sunday Times
Why aren't young people more idealistic and pacifistic than others? Times, Sunday Times
It is almost pedestrian at this point to wonder why Palin (rather than the equally deserving Obama) was chosen as representative of a "fairy tale" - one presumes that, were they intellectually consistent or idealistically coherent, women's studies profs or feminist English profs at Metro would have located misogynistic assumptions in the choice of assignment material and would have launched their own critiques of Mr Hallam - but that kind of interdepartmental fighting is trivial when, in the larger sense, the object of scorn is a political opponent worthy of criticism. Protein wisdom
Graham Summer, the term acquired a harsher and altogether less idealistic significance. TYPES OF INDIVIDUALISM
As much as Tocqueville owes to Enlightenment insights, his work belongs, as well, to the counter-Enlightenment strain of the liberal tradition — impressionistic and exhortative, idealistic in its use of types and fatalistic in its approach to history, sentimental both in its portrayal of a declining aristocracy and in its invocation of the turbulent United States as a manner of natural order. The Visitor
While we thus lightly dismiss sensual love as unpoetical, we must remember that Burns, in some of his accounts of inspiration, ascribes quite as powerful and as unidealistic an effect to the kisses of the barmaids, as to the liquor they dispense. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
The common-sense centrists, the idealistic environmentalists and the blue-rinse wranglers had a rare moment of political concord.
However, the actual incidents (as opposed to the preparation and debriefing) are fewer and farther between than I surmised from reading the box cover, and their second-to-last achievement was flim-flamming a bunch of idealistic college kids who had not yet learned to think critically and skeptically. Archive 2005-08-01
The Gedankenexperiment the thought experiment that Hegel's idealistic philosophy could cause real violent political repercussions might be considered excessive. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
When he inherits an estate in the countryside from his uncle, he moves there and starts to lead a rather hermitical life, only pulled into society by his friend Vladimir Lensky, an idealistic young poet. Stuff
As Meeker sees comedy as having a biological rather than idealistic focus, so Baillie sees it as properly centering on the “original distinctions of nature” rather than on the “adventitious distinctions ... of age, fortune, rank, profession, and country” (13). Joanna Baillies Ecotopian Comedies
Obama insisting on the public option is as idealistically vapid as him standing at the podium and insisting terrorists stop bombing people. Think Progress » Let The Cameras Roll
But some of the idealistic campaigners of yesterday are today's hard-nosed businessmen and women. Times, Sunday Times
This may sound too idealistic, but you and a partner can take a major step toward it. The Sun
On every hand we hear proclaimed a form of the doctrine of God's omnipresence (usually called the divine "immanence") which not only denies all distinction between the original Creation and the present perpetuation of the world, but a form which practically denies all second causes, and which cannot well be distinguished from pantheism, though it would be a spiritualistic or "idealistic" form of pantheism, or "monism," to use the favorite modern term. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
Rather, they idealistically tend to believe that we should use our unparalleled military power judiciously and in concert with the United Nations.
The Arien personality is pioneering, energetic, and swift acting, and the Aquarius inner nature is idealistic, blessed with great imagination, and is tuned to the future.
He set forth an idealistic view of society.
As a young, idealistic socialist, he had decided against joining as an officer. Times, Sunday Times
The scheme was criticized as too idealistic and impracticable.
From Quixote we derived the word quixotic, meaning extravagantly chivalrous and romantically idealistic. Impossible Dream
In a 1986 book, Matsunaga came up with a brilliant, idealistic, impractical, and visionary idea.
But those people aren't looking for idealistic dreamers; they want to be confident that their capital is going to be conserved.
The conference, like the concept of ecological design itself, ran the gamut from the supremely practical to the resolutely idealistic.
Harvey is given to name-dropping, idealistic stream of consciousness rambles, sentence fragments and gushing enthusiasm.
Adams was by no means the first to use the words "American dream" -- and almost from the beginning the phrase embodied a tension between the materialistic and the idealistic. Hugh Rawson: Chasing the American Dream
A travel agent by day and dreamer by night, he nurtures idealistic hopes of becoming a TV writer.
They are fuelled by idealistic, woolly-headed, utopian notions of equality.
I admit I might be called unpractical if impenetrable forests and destructive floods lay between here and Putney; it might then be as merely idealistic to praise Putney as to praise Paradise. G.K. Speaks - A Misunderstanding About Method
Cynics may sneer at the idealistic thought that three musicians sitting in the Wigmore can heal a torn world. Times, Sunday Times
CAROLINE GLUCK: Yeah I think practitioners like Ward are still quite idealistic about how they want wiki to develop.
Conservative ideologies are typically more friendly to this emerging stream simply because they are skeptical of the innate nature of man as being good but they remain primarily idealistic in nature nevertheless. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Follow-on Drone Hearing
This may sound too idealistic, but you and a partner can take a major step toward it. The Sun
These ties came in many forms—from bonds of mutual trust between idealistic fellow communists to the murkiest pacts between partners in corruption. The Return
Like all the fire signs, Leos are idealistic and don't hold back from expressing their passion.
But I was not tuned in to the ordinariness of the people who listened to my idealistic preaching. Christianity Today
The significance of adolescent idealistic feelings for adolescent behavior are explored later in this chapter in the discussion of adolescent egocentrism.
In carefully composed, shiningly idealistic remarks, they announced their intention to build an international network linking young people working in food and farming. Slow Food, High Gear
People say that students are by definition idealistic and impatient.
Requiem's central characters are also big city drug dealers who want personal liberty, but they have no idealistic notions about freedom, and they are unremarkably dressed.
His charming ugly face was in repose a little gloomy, not thoughtful so much as expectant, dreamy perhaps but also very practical and unidealistic. The Dark Forest
The result is an anachronic set of dialogues between introspective, idealistic, pragmatic and educated-sounding American characters.
We may agree about the practical importance of such claims but doubt their connection to idealistic views of science. Science, Technology, and Social Change
That is, Darwin was applying Whewell's method of consilience, or inference to the best explanation, though he probably did not buy into the philosophical basis (idealistic rationalism) that inspired Whewell.
Rawkus Records was founded on a hazily idealistic notion about promoting progressive music.
A minority, of course, adopt a more idealistic view and have very different perspectives concerning social and political change. Working with Teenagers
This idealistic concept is at variance with reality. Understanding Cancer
There is a tendency to be impractical and too idealistic in your thinking.
Peter, an idealistic young Yale graduate, worked as a journalist covering the war in Paris when he felt the call to serve.
It is Eleanor's first time captaining a ship, and it is actually going very well, and she is filled with a kind of idealistic pride.
Politics, aesthetics, literature were all preoccupations for these privileged and idealistic young people. Times, Sunday Times
But seriously, I think the truth is simple if unidealistic. Quote Of The Day
Advocates are considered, at best, idealistic dreamers who can't accept the harsh reality of the world, or at times, simply a mere irritation.
Many will be pretenders, consciously or unconsciously, because traditionalistic and idealistic models of the world serve their sexual interests.
PROJECT STATEMENT: A landscape design reinterpreting the idealistic Chinese lifestyle and responding sensitively to the context.
To move toward such a rapprochement of souls is the natural tendency of a foundation with an international character and an idealistic outlook which implies that the entire civilized world is envisaged from a purely intellectual point of view as constituting one single and identical republic of minds. Henri Bergson - Banquet Speech
Then, there are groups, many of whom might include journalists deeply committed to this war as well as Rovian, Norquistian and Cheneyian apparchiks who are now planting the seeds for future 'betrayal' charges against those who "idealistically" opposed this war I doubt Packer, by the way, consciously and explicitly numbers himself in this group notwithstanding that his writings make him, ipso facto, a fellow traveler of these traitors. Hullabaloo
You wax idealistic, which uncages a backlog of dreamy aspirations you've kept in lockdown.
The sly hint is that this belongs - like so many 1960s attitudes - back in the romantic 1840s of an idealistic, bygone century.
He is cantankerous, idealistic, blinkered, thin-skinned, romantic, a man of the ‘enlightenment’ but curiously unenlightened himself.
In that case it will be up to the more idealistic among us to hold the president to his commitment.
It was easy to see why he had been so shy, so unsophisticated, so idealistic.
A lot of us have an idealistic view of the church. Christianity Today
Ah yes, lack of achievement and the disjuncture between our previous idealistic plans and our present disappointing reality. Times, Sunday Times
Nor was the war itself precisely a definite issue between pure good and pure evil, - such distinctions belong to the world of the idealistic reason of which our actual intricate existence in whose net opposites are very bafflingly fused together, is as yet at least no faithful reproduction, - but a very confused clash and catastrophe of the intertangled powers of the past, present and future. The human spirit has still to find itself, its idea and its greater orientation
The drama takes an idealistic, even a naive view of the subject.
Then the boat from Blighty arrives, bearing a beautiful woman and an idealistic young illustrator. Times, Sunday Times
Yes, I think you do have to give up things to gain things, I very much agree with that, and maybe that thing to give up is a purely idealistic, uncorrupted notion of the world.
All the highest aspirations of the, early human race, its noblest religious temper, its most idealistic velleities of thought are summed up in this single vocable. Arya means an effort or an uprising and overcoming
This is no romantic and idealistic battle for higher principles, fought by a moral and ethical aristocratic elite according to chivalric rules.
But I'm not some idealistic dreamer about the special relationship. The Sun
At its most idealistic, adoption indicated that struggles for material survival had renewed people's faith in the non-material qualities that children and home ideally represented.
He was cynical about people yet idealistic enough to think that politics could still change things for the better. Times, Sunday Times
Smith was realistic about human nature and idealistic about the necessity for the exercise of conscience in the marketplace.
And an idealistic young woman who dreams of raising goats can't afford to mend her barn roof. Times, Sunday Times
None of these proposals is revolutionary, and many may seem unrealistic and idealistic.
Last Sunday's Seeing Red told the truish story of Ms Atkins, the 1970s TV star-turned-hopelessly romantic, idealistic owner of a touchy-feely free-range children's home.
It can, admittedly, be hard to distinguish between being idealistic and being unrealistic.
Teachers, many of whom are young and idealistic and keen to be palsy-walsy with children and play the role of surrogate parent, are paradoxically often the most stalwart champions of the catastrophically counter-productive dogmas regarding classroom arrangement and necessarily knowledge-free lessons in the UK's schools. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
His seminal Rethinking Unionism, published in 1996, won praise from unionists and nationalists alike for its cutting edge idealistic conception of a new unionism.
This is the unidealistic version; as always she is richly sexual -- the very timbre as well as her masterly deployment of it (listen to the chalumeau of 'Nachtgespenster' and 'laenger') make one see and feel the disordered bed, the sultry night, the sensual coils. Les lignes, les couleurs, les sons deviennent vagues
Idealistic and with a flair for dramatic gestures, he became a central player in the political gangsterism of that era. Times, Sunday Times
Youthful, idealistic romance has grown into love, hopefulness into doubt, and anger into distance.
The Arien personality is pioneering, energetic, and swift acting, and the Aquarius inner nature is idealistic, blessed with great imagination, and is tuned to the future.
As the brutal realities of civil war exploded the idealistic notion of America as a utopian paradise, romantic naturalism lost its allure.
Thus, from the start, the right has been popularly associated with a conservative, cautionary stance, a certain defense of custom and tradition, and a resistance to idealistic innovation.
In business, the pragmatic approach to problems is often more successful than an idealistic one.
My experience of Utopia has convinced me that in taking thought for the education of the young it is impossible to be too idealistic, and that the more "commonsensical" and "utilitarian" one's philosophy of education, the shallower and falser it will prove to be. What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
An idealistic young detective takes an undercover assignment in a theatre but is torn between catching the killer or the thrill of performance.
In business, the pragmatic approach to problems is often more successful than an idealistic one.
The tragedy and scandal of American legal education is that it tutors idealistic law students to become sophistical, eristic war-makers through the study of appellate litigation for that small portion of matters that will bring them to court, instead of relying on a case method instructing them on how to reconcile opposing viewpoints and settle disputes without recourse to litigation. Wild Rice
Sue Sylvester is the evil cheer-leading coach, and Mr. Schue is an idealistic young teacher with dreams of bringing the glee club to sectionals and inspiring the teens along the way. GLEEks United « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more
In the 1920s this was the target of the idealistic historicism of Benedetto Croce.
It's an idealistic and moral endeavour, which apparently means that it's perceived as lunacy by some.
Eventually the idealistic plans of keeping peace in the hood morphed into a criminal element never seen before in Los Angeles.
Melanie cleans office buildings hut dreams of a better life that Teddo, an idealistic and impractical dreamer, cannot provide.
Now that our idealistic notions of independence have becoming increasing intertwined with both our understanding of the need for community and the miserableness of trying to provide every last thing for yourself, what to do with a sustainable home in a not-so-sustainable location? Rebekah and Stephen Hren: There's No Such Thing as a Sustainable Home in an Unsustainble Location
It is hard to square the idealistic hardman with the fear and loathing he commanded at the time. Times, Sunday Times

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