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• Against such 'Guardianesque' idealism and misguided liberalism, Thatcher depicted herself as a supreme realist in international relations.2016, Andrew S. Crines, Timothy Heppell, Peter Dorey, The Political Rhetoric and Oratory of Margaret Thatcher, page 85. From the entry Guardianesque
• Washington era to a vigorous militant idealism that targeted no less than full equality.1991, Gene M. Burnett, “Black Star out of Jacksonville: Native Son Achiever James Weldon Johnson was Lawyer, Educator, Composer, Author…. From the entry softspoken
• The chattering, irrational brute of the subconscious clothes itself in the tattered garments of rationality and idealism.1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress. From the entry tattered
• The blatant Gringophobia in Alurista's poetry is countervailed by a current of idealism based on ethnic and racial equality.2014, Juan Bruce-Novoa, Chicano Poetry: A Response to Chaos. From the entry gringophobia
• Insofar as Intuitions 1 and 3 capture the essence of idealism and realism, respectively, those doctrines are contraspective.2013, Ben Irvine, “The paradoxicality of consciousness: a sketch of a theory”, in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial…. From the entry contraspective
• Sixties-style idealism has long since given way to pragmatism.2009, David L. Kirp, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education, Harvard University Press, page 12. From the entry Jay Gatsby
• The savantish 11-year-old interjects naïve, untested idealism; the landlord provides the rapacious entrepreneurial spirit that vacuums capitalism clean of conscience.2007 March 18, Bob Shacochis, “Headline News”, in New York Times. From the entry savantish
• Insarov's and Elena's idealism is not unnaturally coloured with Quixotic elements which the realists of the sixties themselves would have disowned.1980, Robert Dessaix, Turgenev, the Quest for Faith, page 63. From the entry quixotic
• Idealism is an exceedingly complex system, varying much with varying authors, very polymorphous, and consequently very difficult to discuss.1907, Alfred Binet, anonymous translator, The Mind and the Brain, Book III Chapter II. From the entry polymorphous
• Such captivating beauty corresponds to our protagonist’s naive idealism, and the rose-colored glasses through which he views an upper-crust world of dandies and refined intellectuals.2020 October 13, Beatrice Loayza, “Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden”, in AV Club. From the entry rose-colored glasses
• For many, ’ardkore was a depressing manifestation of rave culture's nihilistic escapism, scantily garbed in the gladrags of a vague and poorly grounded idealism.1998, Simon Reynolds, Energy Flash, Soft Skull Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry gladrags
• Critics have argued that Frankenstein is a protest against Romantic titanism, against the masculine aggressiveness that lies concealed beneath the dreams of Romantic idealism.1993, Audrey Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, Esther H. Schor, The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein, page 89. From the entry titanism
• It is clear, therefore, that idealism contradicts the most elementary scientific knowledge and is contrary to all progress, whether social or intellectual.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry elementary
• This brings in the 'universal mind' and idealism hinges on the recognition of a universal mind in which all things exist .1958, Pakistan Philosophical Congress. Session, Proceedings, page 208. From the entry universal mind
• Far more dangerous than crimes of passion are the crimes of idealism—the crimes which are instigated, fostered and moralized by hallowed words.1952, Aldous Huxley, chapter 11, in The Devils of Loudun, New York: Harper & Row, page 301. From the entry moralize
• It’s all very headspinning, and there is real Yellow Submarine quality to the film’s innocent urgency and idealism which take it to the very brink of incoherence.2020 October 13, Peter Bradshaw, “Soul review – Pixar's rapturous tale of a jazz nut on a surreal out-of-body journey”, in The Guardian. From the entry head-spinning
• While he may wear his idealism and good-heartedness on his shirt sleeve, his passion is exuded more as an intellectualized than as a deeply felt quality.2008 June 28, Art Winslow, “Ethan Canin's "America, America"”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 21 May 2009. From the entry wear on one's sleeve
• I share Simmel's dialectical “neither-nor” position (not monism, but nonism), as formulated in the regulating principle of methodological pluralism: neither idealism, nor materialism, nor elementarism, nor emergentism.2008, Frédéric Vandenberghe, A Philosophical History of German Sociology, →ISBN. From the entry nonism
• Subjective idealism also leads infallibly to solipsism, since if everything is in 'my' imagination there is no ground for belief in the existence of other subjects.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry solipsism
• He also believed that idealism of any kind was a more or less disguised form of religion, which was invariably used by exploiters to delude and stupefy the masses.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry stupefy
• From this point of view all philosophy is idealism, an imaginative embellishment of scientific knowledge; and, sure enough, Engels prophesies the decline and extinction of philosophy.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon…. From the entry imaginative
• Philosophy interested him, and I found my own education improving with Socrates' as he led me deeper and deeper into mazes of idealism, epistemology and sublineation.1954, Judith Merril, Selections from Beyond Human Ken, page 182. From the entry sublineation
• It was this kindly old lady that lifted her part into such idealism that it saved from entire disregard the whole story as scenarioized by J.1918, The Moving Picture World, volume 38, number 2. From the entry scenarioize
• According to Healey, a political struggle opened up against "biologizing" scientists, charging that to search for the basis of social ills in individual biology was a form of Menshevik idealism.2004 October 7, Leslie Feinberg, “Can a homosexual be a member of the Communist Party?”, in Workers World. From the entry biologize
• Sabbateanism is the matrix of every significant movement to have emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, from Hasidism, to Reform Judaism, to the earliest Masonic circles and revolutionary idealism.1971, Gershom Scholem, translated by unknown, The Messianic Idea in Judaism and other Essays on Jewish Spirituality. From the entry Sabbatianism

Meaning of idealism

1. noun The property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.
2. noun The practice or habit of giving or attributing ideal form or character to things; treatment of things in art or literature according to ideal standards or patterns;—opposed to realism.
3. noun An approach to philosophical enquiry, which asserts that direct and immediate knowledge can only be had of ideas or mental pictures.

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How do you use idealism in a sentence?

Idealism is used as a noun. For example: “Against such 'Guardianesque' idealism and misguided liberalism, Thatcher depicted herself as a supreme realist in international relations.”

What is a short sentence with idealism?

“Sixties-style idealism has long since given way to pragmatism.”

What does idealism mean?

Idealism means the property of a person of having high ideals that are usually unrealizable or at odds with practical life.