idealism
Example Sentences
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“It’s the idealism of historic preservation butting up against the cost of human safety,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026
Tom Cruise as a sports agent whose idealism clashes with the industry’s cutthroat economics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
But his highly anticipated return to the sci-fi summer blockbuster, the brilliant and beguiling “Disclosure Day,” is Spielberg’s most shameless appeal toward idealism yet.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Meanwhile, Ashley and Austin's idealism and belief in true love is shaken as they find themselves getting deeper and deeper into a murky underworld involving the club's new millionaire owner, Chairwoman Park.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
She didn’t buy into fearmongering and at the same time seemed equally inoculated against any sort of pie-in-the-sky idealism.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
Vocabulary lists containing idealism
Some Political and Philosophical -isms
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"The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton
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Cesar Chavez's Commonwealth Club Address (1984)
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