idealism
Example Sentences
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Political power sandpapered the edges of her idealism.
As a college student, you have more imagination and idealism than a burned-out professional who feels pigeonholed into a particular industry.
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
For Rosenzweig, World War I forced a reckoning with the habits of philosophy itself—above all, its tendency to smooth away individuals for the sake of idealism.
The scene that best defines the story’s idealism happens long before Dunk gets clunked in the head or skewered by a lance.
From Salon
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