Sentence examples for ambitious idealism from inspiring English sources
His legislative agenda projects nothing like the ambitious idealism of his foreign policy; at home, the global crusader remains a crony capitalist.
A sampling of the wishes comports with the ambitious idealism of the Occupy Movement: "for the common good over political self-interest," "for the human race to thrive," "for no more evictions," and "for the end of austerity".
The ambitious regional idealism of the Obama team's early days soon shattered against rock-hard realities.
The Democratic freshman class that was elected to the House of Representatives in 1976 was a remarkable one, loaded with bright and ambitious young reformers who blended the idealism of their generation with the cynicism bred by Watergate and Vietnam.
And Ellison's friendliness toward the Nation might have been as pragmatic as it was heartfelt; for all his idealism, he is clearly ambitious, and, even today, many black activists tend to leaven their criticisms of Farrakhan with nods to his efforts on behalf of black equality.
When the City University of New York School of Law was created in a wave of idealism 17 years ago, it was considered a remarkably ambitious experiment in legal education.
A story about the limits of love, "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" is also about the limits of idealism as well as, rather unfortunately, those of its restlessly ambitious writer and director.
His oeuvre encompasses both his interest in uncovering an Italian identity and his ambitious philosophical project of navigating the tensions between transcendentalism and sensationalism that is, between Hegelian idealism (Croce's most profound influence) and empiricism.
The film is a chronicle of a hectic time in the life of an ambitious minister of transportation, played by the great Belgian actor Olivier Gourmet as a whirlwind of ambition, cynicism and embattled idealism.
The common thread is a robust sense of American destiny, a willingness to set ambitious goals and to sound important themes in a grand rhetorical style, and, notably, an intense desire to engage the idealism of young people.
