idealism
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Or would we demand that she compromise her principles because it’s pragmatic to let go of the idealism of youth?
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
Based on these challenges, Koch suggests it may be necessary to revisit older philosophical ideas like idealism or panpsychism.
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
Players themselves were caught up in the strife and idealism of the era, Mr. Gittlitz shows.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
People might, however, remember a moving or historic Oscar speech — a statement from a winner that inspires the exact kind of idealism the show is apparently so intent on bringing to its viewers.
From Salon • Mar. 16, 2026
Then he adds softly, "But in class, your idealism shows as well. Be careful of idealism, my boy, for idealism is the most dangerous doctrine of all."
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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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