idealism

He represents the idealism of a walk-on, which is a fresh face coming out and being the heartbeat of a team.

Reprehensible such people may be, but they are motivated by a kind of perverted idealism.

It began as an unstable blend of wildly ambitious idealism, great-power cynicism and mind-numbing bureaucracy, and that combination has defined it ever since.

Most often, we’ll find frustrated idealism just at the moment it starts to sour.

And, holding down the heart of the film with a gravity it probably doesn’t deserve, is Redford, running his techno-security squad with just the right balance of seen-it-all cynicism, idealism and swagger.