ideals
Example Sentences
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We have abandoned many of the ideals that founded the country.
From Salon ● Aug. 7, 2026
Wilde found further inspiration in Araki’s own fortitude, his steadfastness to his ideals and how it sets him apart from many other filmmakers who parlayed early indie cred into payday careerism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
The aim is to survive and even thrive in the new world by doing the necessary amount of submission, but in the process to preserve the most important pre-revolutionary ideals and principles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
It is where our national ideals are debated, tested, challenged and renewed.
From Salon ● Jul. 10, 2026
The certainty that he was finally fighting for his own liberation and not for abstract ideals, for slogans that politicians could twist left and right according to the circumstances, filled him with an ardent enthusiasm.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
