Sentence examples for high idealism from inspiring English sources

It is high idealism in action.

In an episode of Yes Minister, of course, such high idealism would be bound to eventually fail.

There was the inevitable fractiousness, the neuroticism, the petty logrolling, but also the basic concern for the vulnerable and the high idealism.

Perhaps, like that other wooden, remote, cerebral Democrat, Woodrow Wilson, Mr. Gore, once in office, would set the tone of high idealism promised in his acceptance speech.

He also wrote plays and other works, all of which exhibit a combination of high idealism, abhorrence of violence, isolation from the mainstream of American thought, and shock at materialistic secularism.

As external affairs deteriorated, the high idealism, the exalted sense of human capacities depicted in tragedy at its height, yielded more and more to the complaints of the Skeptics.

Academic institutions should take advantage of this higher idealism and social service motivation to foster the willingness to work in rural settings.

Mixing kitsch decor and high Modernist idealism, they mirror our divided, sacred yet profane selves (Johnson).

Regarding relations with other states, Kautilya's thoughts were based not so much on high moral idealism as on the needs of self-interest.

In a news conference high on idealism and rhetoric and light on details, a formal business partnership between the National Basketball Association and the National Collegiate Athletic Association was announced Monday to improve the dysfunctional youth basketball system.

But, unlike most elections, Trump's election is something different: it ends an era of American idealism, a high-mindedness of rhetoric, if not always of action, which has characterized most twentieth- and twenty-first-century American Presidencies, from F.D.R. to Eisenhower, from Reagan to Obama, from the New Deal order to the long era of civil rights.