Sentence examples for idealistic desire from inspiring English sources

Germans felt a powerful idealistic desire to rehabilitate themselves in the European family of nations — and had a hard national interest in doing so.

The founders of the European Union were possessed by horror and an idealistic desire to ensure that these events were at an end and could not be repeated.

Although erotic love has frequently been understood primarily as sexual desire and passion, its classical religious and philosophical meaning was the idealistic desire to acquire the highest spiritual and intellectual good.

But his proposals for a redesigned European flag and visual identity, to mark the Dutch presi dency of the EU, are a return to his witty, idealistic desire to give worthy European causes the panache of Manhattan circa 1940.

Spurred on by a moral, if idealistic, desire to redistribute the wealth and improve the lot of ordinary Nigerians, Chief OIA Akinyemi ventured into the political arena, where he was constantly propositioned with bribes, which he rebuffed at every turn.

What distinguishes these early texts is that sense of shadow, one in conflict with the idealistic desire for goodness and wholeness.

What the liberal was faced with in August 2011 was a frightening abyss: a catastrophic action motivated, perhaps, by the shallowest and least idealistic of desires; an action of destruction and selfishness which seemed, for a moment, universal rather than the motions of an angry – perhaps rightly angry – minority.

It sounds wildly idealistic when the personal desire to individuate and diversify gender is blown up into a social system.

But it's also true that Xiang Xi is not being cynical when he says that most Americans don't grasp the "desires of idealistic Chinese media workers".

As Xiang Xi, executive editor of Southern Weekly, part of the Southern Media Group, put it in an interview with an Anhui paper: "[T]he seller genuinely does not comprehend the desires of idealistic Chinese media workers and institutions".

At Steven's funeral, Rabbi Terry Bookman eulogized him as "an idealistic young man whose only desire in his journalistic efforts was to bring a human face to the conflict".