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idealism

noun as in rose-colored glasses

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Moseby doesn’t enter the story with any sort of idealism and yet he is still unmoored by just how cynical, sordid and despicable the world he is drawn into turns out to be.

In sharp contrast to Trump’s outrageous playground threats to seize territory illegally, reminding the world of the dark side of American power, Burkle exemplifies its humanitarian idealism put into practice.

From Salon

“The day will come when the politicians do the right thing by our people out of political necessity and not out of charity or idealism,” Chavez said, sounding matter-of-fact in a recording of the speech.

The debate between idealism and pragmatism is one on which fans differ.

From BBC

The extremes on either side of this view of color are realism and idealism.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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