Example sentences for: idealistic

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

  • After brief stints as a copy boy for the NYT in college and as an Army reporter in Vietnam, Gore took a job at the the Tennessean --which was then a popular stop-off for the idealistic sons of political figures (the sons of Robert Kennedy, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and John Sirica had worked there).

  • The NYT notes the most idealistic one, that Yeltsin is intent on bequeathing to Russia, as his parting legacy, a government and president who are committed to completing the country's democratization.

  • Southerners pinned the label on both the opportunistic and idealistic Northerners who packed their worldly possessions into "carpetbags" during Reconstruction and moved to Dixie to enter politics.

  • Likewise, today's idealistic conservatives still despise Kissinger and detect in Years of Renewal 's détente argument an excuse to coddle China.

  • Commentators opine that their childhood prosperity will make them generous and idealistic.


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