It's a lofty ideal, but in fact we negotiate with terrorists all the time.
"Gender equality is not just a lofty ideal, it is also crucial for agricultural development and food security," he said.
So purpose is not just a lofty ideal; it has practical implications for your company's financial health and competitiveness.
Trying to combat the city's historic socio-economic east-west divide, the divide at the heart of Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, is a lofty ideal.
To do so we must show, not merely in great crises, but in the everyday affairs of life, the qualities of practical intelligence, of courage, of hardihood, and endurance, and above all the power of devotion to a lofty ideal, which made great the men who founded this Republic in the days of Washington, which made great the men who preserved this Republic in the days of Abraham Lincoln.
"It's a lofty ideal I know," he says, but so far so good.
Dedicate yourself to living your ideals and putting them into practice, so that progressivism isn't just a lofty ideal but a way of life.
Eggers and Smith are both artists who work in a variety of media — music, design, poetry and community-building — and they convey a sense that art is both a lofty ideal and a daily slog.
If we -- as businesses, influencers, policy makers, and consumers -- all play our respective parts, sustainability will not be a lofty ideal, but instead will become a reality within our daily lives.
For us all now facing global ecological collapse, pollution of our waters, war, violent storms, forest fires etc. coming together in unity with one heart as one people is not just a lofty ideal..
It is a lofty ideal we aspire to, fail quite often, rarely arrive at without leadership instructing us to do so, but upon occasion in history, we are find we are capable of more than we might have imagined.
