Sentence examples for fixed ideals from inspiring English sources
Years ago, Mr. Wolfowitz called himself an ideologue to distinguish himself from balance-of-power realists who tended to focus more on the achievable than on fixed ideals.
Once it was apparent that science had no certain truths, or secure foundations, the notion that a good theory of the state should begin with something solid — with fixed ideals about virtue, or with a large-scale view of historical development — had to give way, too.
What we're seeing through radicalized Islamists is a belief in fixed ideals and an attempt to defend and propagate those beliefs at all costs.
These attacks are all based on beliefs in fixed ideals of how life should be and a prejudice against those who would differ -- the non-believers, the infidels or heathens that would threaten their ideals of how we should live.
KELEFA SANNEH CHRISTIAN SCOTT "Anthem" (Concord) For Christian Scott, a 24-year-old trumpeter originally from New Orleans, jazz is an adaptable set of strategies rather than a fixed ideal.
In fact, Mr. Cavell distinguishes moral perfectionism from the notion that there is a fixed, ideal moral law (as Kant proposed) or that moral judgment should be utilitarian, or useful (as John Stuart Mill proposed).
If on the face of it the concert and the prize had nothing to do with each other, deep down both may root in the same fetish of youth as a fixed ideal, an abstraction.
Thus, the changeable and multifarious quality of these two creeds -- democracy and Islam -- is better explored as a historical process rather than a fixed ideal.
For while relations between bodies and events are necessarily variable and changing, the relations constituting space and time must be viewed as determinate, fixed, and ideal.
We wish to study those sequences for which the curvature is 'small' at each step, e.g., belongs to a fixed operator ideal.
Although learning by rote recitation began fading out by the 1890s, these poets nevertheless remained fixed as ideal New England poets.
