(n.) One who idealizes; one who forms picturesque fancies; one given to romantic expectations.
(n.) One who holds the doctrine of idealism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(2) Valls immediately attacked Hamon as an idealist who couldn’t win the presidential election and styled himself as the voice of the serious left in government.
(3) The Lewinsky affair did not leave him disillusioned and Engskov's eyes brighten as he recalls his time in Washington: "It was an idealistic time.
(4) Far from being disgusted with her physicality, Ruskin – a rigorous Christian and idealist – felt anxious and subconsciously betrayed by the realisation that his love for Effie was a one-sided affair.
(5) Yes, sounding on about the ethical dimension to public service can sound corny and implausible when you have ministers rubbishing the state and all its works, but you and the vast majority of your civil service colleagues are doing the job because you are idealists.
(6) We are brought up to emphasise ideology, to neglect psychology and to observe government as a series of clashes between big people with big ideas acting in ways that are by turns manipulative and idealistic but explicable.
(7) It’s idealistic, it’s the right thing to do even if it turns out to be utterly futile.
(8) Similarities between the notion of life style and concepts of cultural integration are noted, and the various uses of life style are categorized along an idealist-materialist continuum.
(9) It may however, serve as an example of how idealistic principles might be combined with realism derived directly from clinical practice, and may thus serve to inspire others along similar paths.
(10) With Veep , rather than striving young idealists, you have cowardly egomaniacs and bunglers who are involved in endless arse-covering exercises.
(11) Never work for an organisation without proper security measures I was young, idealistic, naive and working in an active conflict zone for a small local NGO.
(12) About suffering they were never wrong, The old Masters: how well they understood Its human position: how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along But Swartz's death came like a thunderbolt in cyberspace, because this insanely talented, idealistic, complex, diminutive lad was a poster boy for everything that we value about the networked world.
(13) The search for a synthesis bridging the gap between materialist and idealist approaches in anthropological theory has been invigorated by recent efforts to develop a critical medical anthropology.
(14) DanceSafe's Messer, a veteran of the idealistic PLUR (peace, love, unity, respect) oriented rave underground of the 90s, complains that the dance festivals offer a "packaged, containerised experience ...
(15) Goldsmith is an idealist and comes from a family that doesn’t shift its convictions easily and which knows how to run campaigns.
(16) The Greens – young, highly educated, cosmopolitan liberal idealists – are more or less the polar opposite to Ukip’s ageing, socially conservative, nationalist electorate.
(17) Although self-immolation as social protest was widely publicized during the years surveyed, the authors note that these individuals all attempted suicide for personal and irrational rather than morally idealistic reasons.
(18) Rather, it is that they have increasingly used the language of rights to express their idealistic goals (or to conceal their strategic goals).
(19) Idealistic and metaphysical concepts of the structure-function relationships (morphological idealism, holism, physiological idealism, functionalism) are critisized, and historical premises of these concepts are characterized.
(20) The creative risk – such as it is – within the new series centres on the retelling of real events as they would have been covered by this idealistic newsroom.
Optimist
Definition:
(n.) One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.
(n.) One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist.
Example Sentences:
(1) Johnson and Campion are optimistic that marriage equality will win out, and soon.
(2) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(3) Even under the most optimistic scenarios, shale gas is projected to meet just 10% of European gas demand by 2030.
(4) I have the optimist's world view of America as a tolerant place, where anyone can grow up to be the President.
(5) He says there are many optimistic tales to tell – migrant families, he says, are helping to drive up standards in local schools – but such stories tend to get lost in an online world that has precious little interest in them.
(6) All I wanted to know was that this was not a hereditary disease – partly, I suppose, because I was so young and carefree and optimistic.
(7) I was optimistic that I could leave behind my reputation as the nerdy one of my friends.
(8) The new Poles are generally optimistic and open-minded, believing their destiny to be in their own hands, that Poland shouldn't be prisoner to its past and that the future waxes bright for their country.
(9) The Bank of England has a record of being over-optimistic about Britain's prospects and in its latest assessment of the economy once again cut its growth forecast.
(10) Excessively optimistic judgements of driving competency and accident risk have often been implicated in the disproportionate involvement of young males in traffic crashes.
(11) I would urge her to follow the example of Elizabeth I, who, on appointing as her chief minister Sir William Cecil, said of him: “This opinion I have of you: that whatever you know my personal opinion to be, you will give me advice that is best for the realm.” Valerie Crews Beckenham, Kent • Another immensely qualified person loses their job for not being optimistic enough about Brexit.
(12) English speakers are the least optimistic about the chances of avoiding dangerous climate change Out of more than 6,000 self-selecting respondents, many expressed dismay at the slow pace of political action on climate change.
(13) Both brothers had been in optimistic mood earlier in the day.
(14) Arsène Wenger said he hopes the midfielder will return in four weeks and, “if all goes well, three”, but the estimate is believed to be optimistic.
(15) The optimists, not the least of whom are the British, believe that the summit is a starting point on which to build.
(16) "We'd have preferred that, in addition to these increases, we had seen our market share grow overall this quarter but we are optimistic that some of the sector's major rebranding campaigns and marketing initiatives will start taking effect in results this year."
(17) The most optimistic of them sees a fall by 2030, but this would require huge investments in renewable energy as well as financial and technical support from overseas.
(18) Jints fans, suddenly optimistic about their postseason chances, forgot how bad their team was over the fortnight - today they are being reminded.
(19) Reagan's youthful hero was FDR – another optimist, albeit a far steelier one – who turned the federal government into the agent of recovery from the Great Depression and of victory in World War II.
(20) A recent National Audit Office study pinpointed these precisely: the DWP’s approach, it finds, is too rigid; its policy assumptions tend to be untested and over-optimistic; strategically, it fails to anticipate uncertainty (specifically, the possibility of failure); it neglects to monitor progress, so does not notice when things go wrong until far too late.