Sentence examples for idealistic illusion from inspiring English sources
Béla Fleck: That might be an illusion, but it's an idealistic illusion and its one that I fight for.
In the meantime, I find myself somehow resenting the unceremonious way we say goodbye to idealistic illusions.
"It is in our national interest, without being under any idealistic illusions, to nurture ties with a Russia whose leader seems to have dramatically broken with centuries of Tsarist and Bolshevik anti-Semitism and now displays friendship towards the Jewish people," wrote Isi Leibler, a right-wing Australian-born activist on March 16th in Israel HaYom, the country's most widely read newspaper.
Grand Illusions (Forbes Oct 20 , 1997.
Némirovsky comes across as an intensely Russian writer, lyrical, forceful, earthy, idealistic and yet without illusions.
Demanding and idealistic, yes.
"The Impossible Exile" is thus a Zweigean portrait of Zweig, who turns out to be as idealistic as Erasmus, as helpless as Mary Stuart and as delusional as Marie Antoinette.Illusions stubbornly maintained were the essence of Zweig's ultimate tragedy.
Based on George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart's 1934 play about lost illusions, this musical held onto the central stunt of tracing its characters' fortunes from their jaded present to their idealistic past.
I didn't feel idealistic.
