Sentence examples similar to foolish idealism from inspiring English sources
Professor Yang has always been messianic on the subject of poetry; now, by condemning his vocation, he makes Jian wonder whether his own idealism was foolish.
An act so foolish can only be explained through idealism: Khrushchev's own, for he was a man whose troubled relationship with his conscience required a happy ending to give him retrospective absolution, but also the idealism coded despite everything into the structure of the régime.
Through a re-casting of his glorious acts of heroism (or his comic misadventures), such as battling enchanted giants and entire armies (or windmills and flocks of sheep), he has been employed both as a Romantic hero and as a foolish, anachronistic madman, for the purposes of representing either high idealism or utter insanity, and sometimes both.
Wilson's misconceptions sprang as much from idealism as from reason — the same sort of idealism that today leads to foolish dreams about softening Islamic extremists with understanding and love.
More useful, too, than dismissing him for his foolish views would be to learn from his example of magnificent but, in crucial respects, misaligned idealism.
A leading article argued that, although Davidson's conduct had been "foolish and eccentric", his intentions at least at the start of his ministry had been guided by idealism.
