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• The guerrillas were a ragtag band of local thugs, former soldiers, displaced farmers, and political idealists.From the entry ragtag
• Fellow Orthogonians considered him an idealist who emphasized Orthogonian rituals to develop moral behavior among the members.2023, Paul Carter, Richard Nixon: California's Native Son, page 40. From the entry Orthogonian
• Marshall’s vision was always tailor-made for a somewhat rare species in New York, the supersociable idealist.2009 July 29, Susan Dominus, “Cockeyed Optimists and a Visionary Co-op”, in New York Times. From the entry supersociable
• Here we encounter a portrait of The Rebel as Quixotic idealist.1989, John Rodden, The Politics of Literary Reputation: The Making and Claiming of ‘St. George’ Orwell, page 122. From the entry quixotic
• The naive realist does not think of the antithesis between sensation and reality as the idealist does.1918 July, James H. Hyslop, “Predicaments in Philosophy”, in The Monist, volume 28, number 3, Chicago: Open Court, →OCLC, page 367. From the entry naive realist
• Have we been betrayed, or misled, by our classic wordmasters who were such semantic idealists, such well-meaning rebels?2000, Melvin J[onah] Lasky, Profanity, Obscenity & the Media (The Language of Journalism; 2), New Brunswick, N.J.; London: Transaction…. From the entry wordmaster
• The mind, for the idealist, creates the world we live in, the ‘Lebenswelt’ of our thoughts, imaginings, and perceptions.1999, Simon Blackburn, Think: A compelling introduction to philosophy, chapter 7: The World, section 7: The Eye of the Beholder, page 260…. From the entry Lebenswelt
• Unlike the ascetic idealists Emerson and Thoreau, Melville abandoned Pauline-Christian carnophobia and accepted man's body as part of his essential being.1987 July 1, Tetsumaro Hayashi, Herman Melville: research opportunities and dissertation abstracts, McFarland & Co Inc, →ISBN. From the entry carnophobia
• This brute factness of science ought not to obscure the decisive fact that Kant provided an idealist reconstruction of this scientific realist base.2013, Robert E. Butts, Historical Pragmatics: Philosophical Essays. From the entry factness
• Whatever their feelings about the state's heavy-handed blows on idealist scientific writings, they appear to have remained committed to their roles as squashers of superstition.2009, Sigrid Schmalzer, The People's Peking Man, page 81. From the entry squasher
• Prison abolitionists are dismissed as utopians and idealists whose ideas are at best unrealistic and impracticable, and, at worst, mystifying and foolish.2003, Angela Y. Davis, chapter 1, in Are Prisons Obsolete?, archived from the original on 19 May 2023, pages 9-10. From the entry impracticable
• Predicted reply from David: 'Ian Pace, idealist that he is, uses terms like "imperialism" as reified concepts without giving any clear description of what he means.2006 January 15, Ian Pace, “Mahler #6”, in rec.music.classical.recordings (Usenet). From the entry continued page 94
• Platforms, manifestoes, utopianisms, factional vendettas — all were trivial beside the sufferings in Flanders and on the seas, the lacerations inflicted both by the crook and the idealist.1984, John Masefield, Peter Vansittart, John Masefield's Letters from the Front, 1915-1917, page 23. From the entry skunkery
• We suppose everybody in life experiences moments like this week, those “get off my lawn!” glimpses into the old codger you are vs. the young idealist you used to be.2016 October 1, David Wasson, “Get off my lawn, Blake Barnett!”, in BamaHammer. From the entry get off my lawn

Meaning of idealist

1. noun One who adheres to idealism.
2. noun Someone whose conduct stems from idealism rather than from practicality.
3. noun An unrealistic or impractical visionary.

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How do you use idealist in a sentence?

Idealist is used as a noun. For example: “The guerrillas were a ragtag band of local thugs, former soldiers, displaced farmers, and political idealists.”

What is a short sentence with idealist?

“Here we encounter a portrait of The Rebel as Quixotic idealist.”

What does idealist mean?

Idealist means one who adheres to idealism.