(n.) The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acceptance of less than ideal donors is ill-advised even though rejection of such donors conflicts with the current shortage of organs.
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
(4) As bacterial vaginosis is generally looked upon as a mild noninflammatory condition lactate-gel seems to be an ideal treatment for this disease.
(5) Using four 4 cm electrodes at intervals of 1.5 cm in VX-2 carcinoma in the rabbit, ideal heating was obtained: 42 degrees C at the periphery of the tumor and 43 degrees C at the center.
(6) The regimen used at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, provides 2.0 to 2.5 gm protein per kilogram ideal body weight, plus adequate fluid and nutrient supplements.
(7) The ideal prophylaxis should compensate for the undesired effects of an operation or injury on the coagulation system, without subjecting the patient to the danger of elevated tendency to bleed.
(8) "The new feminine ideal is of egg-smooth perfection from hairline to toes," she writes, describing the exquisite agony of having her fingers, arms, back, buttocks and nostrils waxed.
(9) From a practical viewpoint, this approach to prevention is less than ideal because it results in considerable costs as health care providers monitor for possible hepatotoxic effects and because it is difficult to maintain compliance for 12 months.
(10) Ideally, the rule should classify all nonhyperplastic and mildly hyperplastic cases as nonprogressive and all carcinomas as progressive; there were, however, a considerable number of false positives and false negatives based on application of the classification rule to these cases.
(11) Whether we would use that to support and amplify the community ideals already present or go the way of gentrification remained to be seen.
(12) Gallium arsenide has proved to be an ideal substrate material for some uses but is associated with unique health hazards.
(13) The ideal body weight (kg) of each individual can be calculated by the following formula: ideal body mass index x the height (m)2, since body mass index is expressed by the body weight in kilogram divided by the height squared in meters.
(14) It's almost starting to feel like we're back in the good old days of July 2005, when Paris lost out to London in the battle to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, a defeat immediately interpreted by France as a bitter blow to Gallic ideals of fair play and non-commercialism and yet another undeserved triumph for the underhand, free-market manoeuvrings of perfidious Albion.
(15) Therefore, it is an ideal method for the isolation of cell cycle phase specific populations.
(16) Without suggesting an ideal medication for this syndrome, the authors have obtained good results with barbexaclone.
(17) Actions achieved or a long commitment to an ideal, often through hardship.
(18) The integrated sensing system is an ideal instrumental set up for viewing and recording the behaviour of rodents as well as other animals in the experimental pen throughout the year under varying weather and light conditions.
(19) This experiment investigated people's preferences for the location of facilities in an ideal town.
(20) Need Score for each content area was calculated by taking the difference between Ideal and Current Expertise responses.
Romanticism
Definition:
(n.) A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.
Example Sentences:
(1) The work of one of the greatest writers of German Romanticism, E.T.A.
(2) To those critics who will accuse him of romanticism and nostalgia, his defiant reply is the first page of the introduction: things were better in the past, and it's not nostalgic to say so.
(3) "There's a certain romanticism to the hijackers and that's something, again, that Taruskin picks upon.
(4) Reading it again today, one is struck by its rightwing romanticism, its lack of interest in new drama, its belief that tragic heroes have to descend from a great height.
(5) All of these have become twisted in the years since the space race, but Cernan believes we can – and will – recapture that sense of romanticism.
(6) Even though there was a lot of politically committed music during the late 70s and early 80s, there was also New Romanticism, which was essentially people putting their fingers in their ears and going 'Wah-wah-wah-wah'.
(7) Eleven years of New Labour government, of moderation, pragmatism and early nights, have not quenched the party's inherent radicalism or its romanticism.
(8) He said that he felt he may have got carried away with the film's high Germanic romanticism, with the first 10 minutes devoted to a series of visually arresting, apocalyptic tableaux set against the complete Prelude to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
(9) The tension between the church and the world, between Catholic and Protestant, between religion and Romanticism, is now resolved, for all are united against this extreme evil.
(10) The letterings trail and expire, and that sighing of the hand reflects Twombly's self-declared romanticism ("I would've liked to have been Poussin") and the overall psychophysical drift towards release and collapse that is the level on which meaning actually comes through in his art.
(11) That’s a racial slur in our nation’s capitol and a romanticized stereotype,” Houska said of the DC football team, adding that it reinforces the false idea that Native Americans all died out.
(12) And couldn't poor Brod see that in eliding Lehár's jolly and farcical operetta with Wagner's crushing toten lieder , Kafka manages in a single aside to undermine the entire airy and castellated edifice of late German romanticism?
(13) The early Hammer films offer a last gasp of British romanticism, the solid sets drenched in a soft brilliance of shadows, of greys, reds and blues; when these films stray into the far woods, it's always autumn there, never spring.
(14) Fiction blurs with reality, and there is geology and Romanticism, sightseeing and wine-tasting and much rumination on ageing and masculinity, relationships, love, fame and comedy itself.
(15) Estonia finished at sixes and sevens, which felt harsh given the romanticism of their campaign when they have proved to be one of the most enjoyable surprise teams.
(16) For 19th-century poets such as Adam Mickiewicz and Juliusz Słowacki, lamenting the final partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795, themes of loss were mixed with the mysticism of romanticism, Catholicism and suffering to produce an allegorical vocabulary of sacrifice and resistance, as in this verse by Kazimierz Brodziński: Hail O Christ, Thou Lord of Men!
(17) That is the first untruth, for as they know, policy is, at its best, an attempt to impose a framework on an emotional mess of romanticism, reaction, self-interest, altruism and all their many subsets.
(18) He now writes symphonies, concertos, and sacred works of grandiloquent romanticism and religiosity.
(19) The tension between classicism and romanticism expresses itself in clinical problems no less than in theory.
(20) The appointment came shortly after the premiere of McGregor's ballet Chroma, a 21st-century answer to Ashton's Symphonic Variations whose minimalist design and abstract choreography resonated with a passionate, wayward romanticism.