Sentence examples for idealism one from inspiring English sources

Theirs is a terrible, mesmerizing story of curdled idealism, one that has been told before but rarely as well.

And in the coolness of the essays, in their rigor and idealism, one can read the truth that she was never wholly released, nor wanted to be.

If you will permit me a moment of idealism: one conclusion of the unfolding process of social evolution would, presumably, be a society without crime.

"This generation has yet to find its Bobby Kennedy, Ms. Owenss, 33, said with the earnest idealism one would expect from a Capitol Hill intern.

Ontological idealism, one could say, is the only tenable basis for a realistic stance for Berkeley, but it leads to a realism about minds, human and divine, rather than of what he always calls material substance.

But if the political "right" makes a mistake, it is in sanctifying original sin and somehow assuming that this fatal flaw will eventually turn out to be a virtue in disguise -- hence yet another kind of naïve idealism, one singled out by Pope Francis, known as "trickle down" economic theory.

The choice appears to be strangely similar to the options presented by the candidates themselves: hopeful idealism on one side, and cynical strategy on the other.

Within these idealisms one can find further distinctions, such as those between subjective, objective and absolute idealism, and even more obscure characterizations such as speculative idealism and transcendental idealism.

"One idealizes one's literary heroes only to have that idealism subverted by the reality".

In a statement, Gordon Brown said: "Michael Foot was a man of deep principle and passionate idealism and one of the most eloquent speakers Britain has ever heard.

Seen 40 years after it first stormed the middle-class citadel of musical comedy, "Hair" registers as an eloquent requiem not only for the idealism of one generation but also for the evanescence of youth itself.