idealistic

Example Sentences

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She maintains the idealistic delusion of a 19-year-old, never mind that she’s 39 with a fraud conviction, telling me she is still working on health care-related inventions and would continue to do so behind bars.

From New York Times

Marcela, who got into politics as an idealistic climate activist, worried he might be an “egomaniac.”

From Washington Post

“It was his most perfect and idealistic work of architecture.”

From Washington Post

The defense lawyer initially assigned to her case is well-meaning, but frightened and ineffective; the hard-driving prosecutor who demands the death penalty for an abused 15-year-old is self-aggrandizing but, in his own way, idealistic.

From Washington Post

Leguizamo said until then he had been idealistic and believed in American meritocracy.

From Los Angeles Times