idealism
Example Sentences
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Flashing ahead 15 years, Nafisi’s idealism is much reduced but not extinguished.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
As the show’s host, Queen Latifah dispensed uplifting thoughts about American idealism throughout the evening but also got a slot of her own to do her classic “U.N.I.T.Y.” with help from a rambunctious drum line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 2026
But his highly anticipated return to the sci-fi summer blockbuster, the brilliant and beguiling “Disclosure Day,” is Spielberg’s most shameless appeal toward idealism yet.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
Meanwhile, Ashley and Austin's idealism and belief in true love is shaken as they find themselves getting deeper and deeper into a murky underworld involving the club's new millionaire owner, Chairwoman Park.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
He had always admired his wife’s idealism, her belief that the world could be made better, could be made orderly, could perhaps even be made perfect.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
Vocabulary lists containing idealism
Some Political and Philosophical -isms
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"The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton
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Cesar Chavez's Commonwealth Club Address (1984)
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