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Example sentences for: idealism

How can you use “idealism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But many of our problems--particularly education, crime, and welfare dependence--are yielding to good sense and strength and idealism."
They are today's "grayheads" of the poverty law bench, as the new generation of public service lawyers affectionately call them - a generation whose idealism comes at a far steeper price, at least on the surface.
The Capraesque idealism is in conflict with the post-Stone paranoia.
He needs to appeal to the idealism of those he wants to recruit by telling them that they can make more money elsewhere but that they can do more for society by becoming teachers.
Cursed with a combination of irrational idealism and irrational narcissism, they insist on interpreting public opinion and behavior in ideological terms.