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idealism

[ahy-dee-uh-liz-uhm] / aɪˈdi əˌlɪz əm /




NOUN
rose-colored glasses
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That’s the best part of the film’s fantasy aspects: Realism gives way to idealism, letting the story concentrate on its heart rather than its loins.

From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2026

Koch believes researchers may need to reconsider philosophical ideas such as idealism and panpsychism while continuing to apply modern scientific methods.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

This was the lofty idealism of Neoclassicism, that a building should capture the pure expression of one single grand thought.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

The idealism I still nurtured as a fifteen-year-old did not have a racial component.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers


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