idealism
Example Sentences
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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
If idealism outlives youth, ESG investing will grow significantly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 16, 2026
As Mrie recounts, Syrian democratic idealism curdled over time into infighting and worse.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
It adds: "Out with utopian idealism; in with hardnosed realism."
From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026
The idealism I still nurtured as a fifteen-year-old did not have a racial component.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
