(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.
Unrealistic
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Some of its demands are wildly unrealistic, such as the reintroduction of direct rule and the suspension of devolution.
(2) However, this volume of blood is an unrealistic amount to take from the frequently febrile pediatric patient.
(3) Following the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance's Hoax of Hollywood conference in Tehran this week, it has been reported that Iran may "sue Hollywood" over what it considers to be unrealistic portrayals of the country in several films.
(4) Or is this new low just as unrealistic as the original high?
(5) The simplest models make a variety of unrealistic assumptions and an outline is presented of how the assumptions of fingerprint band population frequency equality and mutation rate constancy can be relaxed to produce a more realistic and powerful model.
(6) Labour said it would not respond to the threat posed by Ukip by supporting unrealistic targets for net migration or proposing radical changes to the free movement of workers which would probably be rejected by the rest of the EU.
(7) Tony Pulis hopes his only transfer business before the close of play at 11pm on Monday is incoming rather than outgoing at West Bromwich Albion but the manager has warned against unrealistic expectations if Saido Berahino remains after the striker marked his return with two goals.
(8) Furthermore, a careful selection of the facts to be documented must be established, because a "complete clinical documentation" is unrealistic.
(9) It’s not complicated and it’s not an unrealistic wish list.
(10) Unfortunately most of these neural nets are unrealistic in important respects.
(11) But he concluded: "You've been evasive, repetitive and unrealistic."
(12) It is a totally unrealistic, pessimistic vision about what this country can achieve."
(13) Our main finding is that most addicts have a strong interest in training and employment services, but their expectations about the impact of such services is often unrealistic.
(14) But the scale needed, the expense and the potential unintended consequences are so great that it is widely considered unrealistic.
(15) Because this is often unrealistic, the only other way to keep these patients free of disease is by total dental extraction.
(16) This implies also the tendency that the average food intake estimated through FFQs can yield unrealistically high values for items consumed frequently.
(17) Unrealistic aim The executive does not dispute that the magazine division holds appeal for mass-market publishers such as IPC, Bauer and National Magazines, however, all of which could save significant sums through back office synergies.
(18) The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, demanded a European monitoring mission in Ukraine, but conceded it would be “quite unrealistic” for the Russians to allow such a mission into Crimea .
(19) Urinary incontinence is a common occurrence in long term care and, given the client population, continence is often an unrealistic expectation.
(20) The latter calculation was lower than the ESD in three of the five instances examined, which seems unrealistic.