idealistic
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According to Bartlett’s show bible, he was “philosophical, idealistic, romantic and hard to rile.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Yet the noble aims of the academy begin to look like idealistic naiveté when a group of Dutch law students—who have lost much in the war—bristle at the mixed company.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The character seems less self-assured and more wounded than she did in the movie, making her fervently held idealistic beliefs about creative independence seem borrowed from another character.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
A notion that blossomed from an idealistic vision was Martinized into a cult-like excursion for the privileged.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
But a number of idealistic mountaineers continued to insist that a gifted athlete blessed with rare physiological attributes could, after a lengthy period of acclimatization, climb the peak without bottled oxygen.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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