Previously on "Smash": "It was idealistic to think we could do this without a star".
College is the last time where one is free to be idealistic, to think that they can actually make a difference before men of God, politicians, and the mega-rich inform them that actually, they're better off playing along.
But what about when you add humour into the equation – is it too idealistic to think it can be transformative?
Or is it too idealistic to think that some in the House absorbed the informed, dispassionate insight that did emerge in the debate this week.
We admit it is a bit idealistic to think that any viable result could have come from this initial meeting considering the enhance complexity of the situation, but a global problem needs a global solution … however difficult it may be to arrive at one.
When the right is being idealistic, it is idealistic.
Well, because I am a newspaperwoman (reference to His Girl Friday intended as self-parody), I did ask, in as roundabout a way as I could without exhausting my vocabulary: to Al Lockwood, DSEI spokesman, I said "Does nobody have any qualms about the possibility that if this industry were smaller, then fewer people would be killed?" He was far too polite to mind: "I think it's idealistic.
It's idealistic, it's the right thing to do even if it turns out to be utterly futile.
