idealistic

Example Sentences

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She has tried to replace those who left with “people who are idealistic, want to give back to their country, want to make the country a better place for all people in America.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

It would have been a lot to ask that Simkhovitch, idealistic and self-sacrificing, predict that immigrant poverty and its housing conditions would be ameliorated with time.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

Suttasitt "Macky" Pottasak is a typical candidate of Thailand's People's Party: young, idealistic and hardworking.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026

A sweet, idealistic grade-school teacher, Salim doesn’t share his aging dad’s fiery rhetoric regarding Israel.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

What I am trying to say - and I do not think this an unfair comment - is that we were a much more idealistic generation.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro