Watching the film makes you feel like things are going to be O.K., too — not because of naïve idealism but because of its subjects' dedication to ideals that are based in reality.
Human beings, after all, have infinite ways of expressing love and being committed to ideals.
Irving was deeply committed, from his youth, to ideals of a just society.
Inside the city hall Mr. Shuttleworth doesn't sacrifice beauty to ideals.
But these corporate parents are engaged in the "manufacturing of inadequacy," urging teenagers to conform to ideals of what's attractive.
Many men who have used violence subscribe to ideals of masculinity that promote being tough controlling women and celebrate male heterosexual performance.
Following the establishment of the LPDR, classical music and its practitioners were considered to be antithetical to ideals of the new communist regime.
Having started with one war of ideology, Mr Menand ends with two others, in which calculating results gave way again to ideals and principle.
Their books did indeed reflect the experience of people like themselves, who were "strongly committed to ideals of freedom and individualism".
In those novels, as in these stories, preternaturally self-knowing and articulate characters are grieved by life's unaccountable refusal to measure up to ideals.
It was a cause important enough to justify compromises, but the sense of principle, the attachment to ideals – if not precisely the honouring of them – was always there.
