Sentence examples for idealism mark from inspiring English sources

Friends say it would be a mistake to think that Mr. Kean's youth, genteel upbringing, academic interests (a 1990 graduate of Dartmouth, he is working on his Ph.D. dissertation from Tufts University) and self-confessed idealism mark him as a pushover when the gloves come off -- as they invariably will if he runs for higher office.

HALF a century on, it's hard to remember the starry-eyed idealism that marked the creation of the West Side Urban Renewal Area, the widely praised effort to replace 20 blocks of notorious slums with housing for a broad mix of social and economic groups.

This forceful, almost hortatory essay by George Bernard Shaw first appeared in the 13th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1926), the same year Shaw received the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his work which is marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty".

The citation praised his work as "... marked by both idealism and humanity, its stimulating satire often being infused with a singular poetic beauty".

Ivanov is a man left marooned at the high-water mark, as his youthful idealism and radicalism has ebbed away.

Historians, seduced by Wilson's deep intellect, his academic background and his idealism, have usually given Wilson high marks despite his disastrous diplomatic failures and his clinging to office in 1919-1921 whincapacitatedated by a stroke.

Harith's movement was marked by an unusual idealism, however, and it is recorded that his adherents tried to persuade their opponents to join them through moral and religious invocations even during battles.

Yet even though the key documents resulting from the conflict – the declaration of independence, the US constitution and its attendant bill of rights – mark the pinnacle of Enlightenment idealism, there's a startling lack of cultural pride in such achievements.

Positivists thought that the talks that led to the formation of the organization were marked by "belief, confidence and idealism" (Evans 2007, p. 3).

After all, as I said, we've all pretty much "miss[ed] the mark" when it comes to youthful idealism.

The question was hardly academic for Odets, whose early successes for the Group Theater ("Waiting for Lefty," "Awake and Sing!") were marked by a fiery, left-leaning idealism.