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Example sentences for: idealist

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But he was less an ideologue than an idealist, and as he got older his views shifted to the right.
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.
But the realist/idealist distinction does clarify two puzzles about the war.
And, as Libby Holden, the campaign's self-proclaimed "dust buster," the manic-depressive idealist who accepts as her mission the elimination of all dirt, Kathy Bates is a dyke tornado.
Helprin, in short, is a militant idealist, the Steven Spielberg of political argument.