Example sentences for: idealists

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

  • Realists preach humility and prudence, which idealists dismiss as complacency and selfishness.

  • And he mentions a raft of dead Southern idealists who he thinks might well have voted to keep the Capitol flag in place, but it's significant that he doesn't mention any living ones.

  • Buchanan's new book, A Republic, Not an Empire , chronicles how generations of woolly-headed idealists repeatedly dragged the United States into pointless overseas conflicts.

  • Plato, less interested in humans' inner states than in their behavior as members of the state, redefined the four humors in social terms: as artisans, guardians, rationals, and idealists.

  • But self-styled diasporan idealists must also face the paradox that diasporas matter only in a world of states.


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