Sentence examples for idealist from inspiring English sources

On foreign policy, she says she is neither a realist nor an idealist but an "idealistic realist".

David Hare's 1995 play seemed even richer on a second viewing, and Stephen Daldry's near-flawless revival made you believe that Bill Nighy's needy restaurateur and Carey Mulligan's puritanically idealist teacher really shared a complex emotional and sexual past.

He was a utopian, an idealist, but in practice anti almost everything: nothing lived up to his ideals.

Nick Jeffrey London  In view of recent disclosures (May orders inquiry into police spies, 7 March), readers might be interested to know that, way back in 1817-18, in his Berlin lectures on the philosophy of right, the great German Idealist philosopher GWF Hegel denounced the characteristically British use of "police spies" to control crime.

Despite last week's failure to send more than Douglas Carswell (not a populist by temperament, but a high-minded, libertarian idealist) back to Westminster, Ukip still has huge disruptive potential because it lured David Cameron into promising an in/out referendum on Europe which – so we are told – will be a Queen's speech priority.

Danny Boyle is an idealist.

By the middle of this century, most English-speaking philosophers had turned away from the idealist tradition, and concluded that the world was at bottom physical.

The 36-year-old Italian idealist who was strangled in a Gaza flat on April 15th had tattoos on his body, which Sunni Islam forbids, including the name of God in Arabic, a double profanity.

He promises that North Korea's treaty-breaking will have consequences, but so far these have consisted mostly of ineffectual scolding.The conservative critique of Mr Obama is that he is Jimmy Carter redux: a woolly idealist who thinks he can sweet-talk bad guys into behaving.

The most passionate Euro idealist could not have put it better.

The social liberal and self-proclaimed "progressive" who forged close bonds with George Bush (recently declaring the Texan an "idealist" of "genuine integrity").