idealist
理想主义者,理想主义者,理想家,理想主义
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Definitions
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- : a person who cherishes or pursues high or noble principles, purposes, goals, etc.
- : a visionary or impractical person.
- : a person who represents things as they might or should be rather than as they are: My friend is an idealist, who somehow thinks that we always agree.
- : a writer or artist who treats subjects imaginatively.
- : a person who accepts the doctrines of philosophical idealism, as by representing things in an ideal form, or as they might or should be rather than as they are.
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- : of or relating to idealism or idealists; idealistic.
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Examples
Americans, in Ghazvinian’s telling, morph from high-minded idealists to reckless Cold Warriors as the United States plays its own version of the Great Game, manipulating Iran’s politics to its advantage.
He’s one of the idealists, a vendor who considers himself part artist, part entrepreneur.
Walter presents Gig as a charming idealist so handsome he turns heads on the street.
It’s no crime to be an idealist, as long you’re a realist about your idealism.
Xian Lang was, we learn, once like Mulan, a young idealist who wanted to use her supernatural strength and acumen for the highest of purposes.
He was a dreamer, an idealist, grounded in the reality he observed around him.
It is not an idealist, not a romantic call to ethics of conviction as opposed to ethics of responsibility.
He was an “idealist and a realist at the same time,” said his close friend, the British Diplomat Frank Roberts.
The hardheaded politician devoted to step-by- step progress was transformed in death into the consummate liberal idealist.
“It is an ideological—no, not ideological, but I am an idealist still, and I think that I can win,” he said.
I can tell you, my dear idealist—you have not changed a particle, by the way—that there is another side you have never seen.
He was a stubborn , and having found something at last to admire he purposed to hug it.