idealism
Example Sentences
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I covered that conference as a journalist, and the proceedings radiated history-in-the-making: a who’s who of top molecular geneticists, including Nobel laureates as well as younger researchers who added 1960s idealism to the mix.
From Los Angeles Times
Science is also a source of both the bleak fatalism and the Platonic idealism that run through his fiction.
From Scientific American
But over time, his idealism gave way to disillusionment, as he struggled to provide patients with the type of care he’d been trained to deliver.
From New York Times
Others in the office struggle with work-life balance and waning idealism.
From Los Angeles Times
Historian Stephen E. Ambrose writes that amid all the contradictions of his personal life, Jefferson never relinquished his idealism about all men being created equal:
From Salon
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