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having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
idealistic pacifists who thought that tyranny could be toppled by rational argument and mutual understanding
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Bonding: The International Criminal Court is the most ambitious and idealistic — if deeply imperfect — version of an global judicial system to enforce human rights.
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Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Venus is joining forces with Neptune, bringing an idealistic spin to your friendship circles and social life.
—Valerie Mesa, People.com, 2 May 2025
This is not to say that past presidents were necessarily more idealistic at their core (though Jimmy Carter probably was).
—Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 May 2025
In a stark break from Kant, idealistic principles are of no concern to Pragmatics as there are no metaphysics involved.
—Theodore McDarrah, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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Saturday, June 14 Remembering Love Jones Presented by Walmart Synopsis: Join us for a rare and intimate conversation with Nia Long and Larenz Tate celebrating the legacy of Love Jones (1997), the iconic romantic drama written and directed by Theodore Witcher.—
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This lusty trine activates your exotic ninth house and flirtatious fifth house, bringing romantic storylines, creative breakthroughs and a little adventure that spices things up in more ways than one.—
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Imagine someone championing a project others deem impractical but later becoming the pioneer of a game-changing approach.—
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Additionally, much of the country's housing stock is older, making retrofitting AC units both costly and impractical.—
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This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.—
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Labour leader Starmer, though, has taken a realist rather than an idealist approach to the president, putting Britain's foreign policy interests above the strong opposition to Trump in the rank and file of his own party.—
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Jason Momoa will star alongside Alcock as Lobo, an alien mercenary and bounty hunter from the utopian planet of Czarnia in the DC comics.—
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What begins as an architectural experiment becomes an eccentric and emotional journey into isolation, celebrity, and the limits of utopian idealism.—
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There will be protests and lawsuits, but several brands ― from the old and historic to new and quixotic ― need to go, for the ultimate good of the automaker’s shareholders, workers and dealers.—
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The second believed the United States could attain comprehensive security through military-technological means and saw diplomacy as a quixotic or pusillanimous enterprise that dishonored and weakened the country.—
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“Idealistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idealistic. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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