idealist
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Mr. Pollan’s journey leads him to an emerging brew of physics, psychedelics, Zen meditation and idealist philosophy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
On the other, "she had the restlessness of an idealist with a certain anger at the world as it was", Eve, now 67, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2025
I was always very much an idealist and was like, "Let's just try."
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2024
Call me an idealist, but I also don’t think all of these voters are simply engaged in progressive virtue signaling.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2024
“I’m supposed to end in the poorhouse? If the young idealist wrote it, he goes to jail for forgery.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
"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
As in “Curb,” though, he just as frequently positions himself as the logician surrounded by dupes fixated on useless details or idealists high on hopium.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 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
They’re ideas people, glass half full types, idealists but also stubborn visionaries.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
Antislavery idealists might prefer to live in some better world, which like all such places was too good to be true.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
Vocabulary lists containing idealist
A Raisin in the Sun
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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