idealistic
Example Sentences
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But Kornev is young and infused with an idealistic zeal, refusing to let these goons stonewall him.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
It would have been a lot to ask that Simkhovitch, idealistic and self-sacrificing, predict that immigrant poverty and its housing conditions would be ameliorated with time.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026
Suttasitt "Macky" Pottasak is a typical candidate of Thailand's People's Party: young, idealistic and hardworking.
From BBC • Feb. 5, 2026
Forty years ago, Grisham was a lawyer and state legislator in Mississippi with an idea for a story about a racially charged murder trial, seen through the eyes of a young, idealistic attorney like himself.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
But a number of idealistic mountaineers continued to insist that a gifted athlete blessed with rare physiological attributes could, after a lengthy period of acclimatization, climb the peak without bottled oxygen.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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