Sentence examples for idealistic efforts from inspiring English sources

One has read of such idealistic efforts in history books.

Not the theory, and not Chandler's idealistic efforts to remake the slovenly police force in his own image.

Following the Industrial Revolution, with the redundancy of handcraftmanship and the loss of direct communication between the fine artist and society, idealistic efforts to unite the arts and crafts in service to the community were made by William Morris in Victorian England and by the Bauhaus in 20th-century Germany.

Mr. von Trier, in his madly idealistic effort to break through the barriers of acting to the primal humanity beneath, gives us a latter-day Wagnerian transcendence, using not music but the barely mediated human emotion of film.

The irony culminates in Rimbaud's account of his excessively idealistic literary efforts.

In such a cauldron, Smith argues, idealistic American efforts to democratize the region are doomed: "Repressive violence and terror are two aspects of a political culture that has no mechanism for either sharing power or transmitting political authority from one governing body to another except through inheritance, coup or conquest".

If all this sounds idealistic, if these efforts seem unattainable or unrealistic or too difficult, think long and hard about the alternative: much more of what we started to see the night of Mar.

I missed it if there was even the briefest mention of the Peace Ship, Ford's idealistic but naïve effort to mediate among the great powers to try to end World War I.

The archive also sponsors the Open Library, an idealistic and elegant effort "to get catalog information for every book" in the world, to be compiled on a wiki, with the help of readers.

Habila's debut novel Waiting for an Angel, which won a Commonwealth Writers' prize in 2003, traced an idealistic young reporter's efforts to piece together the abuses of the military regime that governed Nigeria in the 1990s.

Al's projects always had the same quirky yet earnest quality back then — part business venture, part recycling effort, part idealistic prank.