idealism
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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
Political power sandpapered the edges of her idealism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 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
Oscar, meanwhile, his idealism reawakened, sees an opportunity for an underprivileged kid with raw talent to escape her meager existence.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
In the High District, a few students, afire with idealism, made faces at their relatives huddled before the television screen with grim expressions and went out to join the procession.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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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