idealism

Example Sentences

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As a college student, you have more imagination and idealism than a burned-out professional who feels pigeonholed into a particular industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

The scene that best defines the story’s idealism happens long before Dunk gets clunked in the head or skewered by a lance.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

Oscar, meanwhile, his idealism reawakened, sees an opportunity for an underprivileged kid with raw talent to escape her meager existence.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

It adds: "Out with utopian idealism; in with hardnosed realism."

From BBC • Jan. 24, 2026

In the late sixties, civil rights activists might have harnessed the great idealism that the southern movement inspired in Americans.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez