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idealistic pacifists who thought that tyranny could be toppled by rational argument and mutual understanding
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For more than a century, people have wondered if the city is ungovernable; with the exception of Fiorello La Guardia, who had New Deal money raining down on him, every idealistic leader who has been elected mayor has left City Hall in some way battered by it.
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Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
The trend for the last twenty years is for a Balkanized internet—not the idealistic worldwide web, but local internet without much access to the outside.
—Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Edward, played by Louis Partridge, was the youngest of the Guinness siblings and played in the series as the most idealistic and ambitious of the heirs.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
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Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025
The trend for the last twenty years is for a Balkanized internet—not the idealistic worldwide web, but local internet without much access to the outside.
—Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025
Tensions arise when a struggling, idealistic poet meets his girlfriend’s family at their idyllic, hillside countryside home in Hong Sang-soo’s latest feature — a quietly profound meditation on the complexities of filial love and familial strife.
—Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2025
Edward, played by Louis Partridge, was the youngest of the Guinness siblings and played in the series as the most idealistic and ambitious of the heirs.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 27 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for idealistic
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“Idealistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idealistic. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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