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idealistic pacifists who thought that tyranny could be toppled by rational argument and mutual understanding
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In a similar vein, pardon the pun, comes this Frank Wildhorn gothic musical about a Victorian-era doctor with two personalities, one an idealistic doctor, the other an evil murderer.
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Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
Set in the Deep South, the film follows Coach Walt McFadden, played by Michael Mosley (Ozark), a talented but idealistic assistant coach at Louisiana University who’s out of second chances.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Cuomo, 67, and Sliwa, 71, made last-minute efforts to characterize Mamdani as inexperienced and overly idealistic.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
The documentary filmmaker, having made mammoth miniseries on the Civil War, the Roosevelts, Prohibition, the Vietnam War, country music, jazz, baseball, and other hallmarks of the American story, has finally gotten around to our messy, violent, idealistic founding.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Oct. 2025
Set in the Deep South, the film follows Coach Walt McFadden, played by Michael Mosley (Ozark), a talented but idealistic assistant coach at Louisiana University who’s out of second chances.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2025
Cuomo, 67, and Sliwa, 71, made last-minute efforts to characterize Mamdani as inexperienced and overly idealistic.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
The documentary filmmaker, having made mammoth miniseries on the Civil War, the Roosevelts, Prohibition, the Vietnam War, country music, jazz, baseball, and other hallmarks of the American story, has finally gotten around to our messy, violent, idealistic founding.
—Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
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“Idealistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/idealistic. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.
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