idealist
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“I’m an idealist, but I’m also a pragmatist,” she said.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
“In Greg’s most optimistic, most idealist, most selfish version of the world, he would just write code on the most important thing,” Altman said in an interview.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
As a football idealist, Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has specific beliefs about how the game should be played - and the best way to win.
From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025
We’re conscious that the point is to lament an idealist whose life was cut short.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
A product of upper-tier English society, he was also an aesthete and idealist with decidedly romantic sensibilities.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
The quest for a stable global order has long beguiled idealists and realists alike.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
"There are Don Quixotes and Sanchos: idealists and pragmatists. Some may find the transparency of crystals fascinating, while others are interested in their smell and whether they're edible," García-Ruiz pointed out.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Maguire and his staff are hippie idealists, wary of sullying their political mission with trivialities like record reviews.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2025
By contrast, to idealists, such as the so-called color fictionalists, everything is unreal — including color.
From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2024
“Sad, sad. A business down the drain, unhappy young idealists stooping to forgery to get even.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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