Example sentences for: idealist

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

  • A true idealist would lobby the coalition hard for ground troops, as British Prime Minister Tony Blair has done, or would jettison the coalition and send in his own ground troops anyway.

  • C'mon, it's so basic: male vs. female, local politician vs. national figure, technocrat vs. idealist.

  • But the realist/idealist distinction does clarify two puzzles about the war.

  • The war hero/campaign-finance reformer is an idealist who has not been corrupted by power.

  • But from an idealist's perspective, the decision to let Kosovars die rather than risk American lives is indeed political--and the purpose of Clinton's allusions to "judgment," "strategy," and "circumstances" is, as with all such realist language, to obscure our indifference and cowardice.


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