This kind of idealism is very troubling it can to lead to uncivil rest.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Party Loyalty Oath' would prevent Republicans from backing Crist] Reference

His main interests are in German idealism and psychoanalysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [enowning] Reference

Opposing idealism is the doctrine of naturalism or materialism.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 December - Telic Thoughts] Reference

I am not sure that this appeal to idealism is quite as genuine as it seems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is Democracy Outworn] Reference

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bertrand Russell - Nobel Lecture] Reference

This idealism is brought on by not wanting to giving in others points of views.    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain camp accuses Obama of making age an issue] Reference

The word idealism exists but it's time we need to give some meaning and depth to it.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But they did not dislodge Wilsonian idealism from the center of American foreign policy.    From Wordnik.com.  [What "W" Owes to "WW"] Reference

More than idealism is involved in the principle that Canada must develop a new kind of nationalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Can We Build A Nation?] Reference

Their idealism is praiseworthy but their devotion to abstract ideals over common sense is suicicidal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Balkinization] Reference

Your idealism is beautiful, but here on earth, Canada is not a shining beacon, it is largely ignored.    From Wordnik.com.  [alternate take] Reference

For someone who has no personal political ambition, that idealism is much easier to work and live with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelve months on....] Reference

Then there was the job of attaching to the cause an expression of idealism to give it a higher meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sands of Empire] Reference

In the works of Tennyson idealism is so pervasive that it meets the eye in a very palpable and direct form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature 1907 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Not only has man lost this capacity but he does not realize that knowledge without wisdom and idealism is dangerous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seán MacBride - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Thus there is good reason, however flawed in idealism it may be, to the state saying vote up or down on the package.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sound Politics: RE: I'm not buying it, Eric] Reference

But NASA's idealism is seriously endangering the world's ability to track its own changing and more dangerous climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Watch: August 2007 Archives] Reference

Arguing over abstractions and refining differences between realism and idealism is the luxury of a well-to-do theory class.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Media and the Military] Reference

Or maybe idealism is correct, in which case – no matter, or at least it's radically different from the common perception.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biocosm & The Biocentric Universe] Reference

In real life, however, Zuckerberg wants us to believe that his world-changing idealism is behind his work on the social network.    From Wordnik.com.  ['The Social Network' Doesn't Live Up To Hype] Reference

Nevertheless the politics of idealism is now a daily fact of life in Hong Kong, and to many of us this is a cause for some concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hong Kong: Myths and Realities] Reference

Such idealism is judged madness by his family, and Lorenzo is looked upon by everybody as a Don Quixote, stubborn and simple-minded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature 1904 - Presentation Speech] Reference

Hegelian idealism is his conviction that, if he were to immerse himself in it (as on occasion he did, or nearly did), he would drown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romanticism, Alchemy, and Psychology] Reference

It’s about how difficult it is to join idealism with action.    From Wordnik.com.  [acacia: book one « Love | Peace | Ohana] Reference

I believe that his idealism was the result of arrogance rather than wisdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asian Correspondent: Atanu Dey on India's Development] Reference

DOBBS: And the arrogance of that so-called idealism, to put forward a two-class stock.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2004] Reference

Blackwood: Mr. Long is coming along finally and this idealism is about fifty percent correct!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Satanism Exposed: The ONA Fake Org | Disinformation] Reference

So you start working towards that and that's when you start losing your idealism, which is sad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Standard - Home] Reference

There is therefore no need of refuting idealism, which is an honest examination of conscience in a reflective mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays] Reference

We were like the swans -- a white company which flew to France ---- Our idealism was the song which we sounded high up.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference

Here, Neal Ascherson, who reported on the momentous events for the Observer, recalls the idealism and anger that drove the.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Jim Brown: Director of Radio Free Europe during the Cold War] Reference

I have been fascinated by stories recalling their idealism and sacrifice, they went through, sacrificing a more comfortable life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patriotic Maoists] Reference

That leaves you with a slimy feeling, mostly about them at a conference like this, where the idealism was the current driving the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scripting News for 7/31/2006 « Scripting News Annex] Reference

See, what I call the idealism of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Charles M. Jones, July 21, 1990. Interview A-0335. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

A simple kind of idealism may be found in athletic art.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference

It's a matter not of just some kind of idealism, but a matter of our national safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 20, 2005] Reference