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Example sentences for: idealist

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The war hero/campaign-finance reformer is an idealist who has not been corrupted by power.
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.
The difference between an idealist and a cynic, in this view, is that the idealist is willing to take a stand contrary to public opinion.
But the realist/idealist distinction does clarify two puzzles about the war.
Having ignored him throughout the campaign, Gore has decided--at a moment oozing with political expediency--to reverse course, demand an open exchange, and cast himself as the idealist.