Noun an idealist sees the best in everyone, regardless of how they behave Adjective an idealist attempt to make a go of a mom-and-pop hardware store on Main Street
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Noun
Like the mannerisms and personality of Andrea Nunez — a fictional journalist in the final season of Narcos: Mexico who, as an idealist in a dying and deadly profession, brings heart and humanity to the story. Andy Meek, BGR, 16 Sep. 2022 The half-elven politician Elrond (Robert Aramayo), who will one day assemble the fateful fellowship of the ring to challenge Sauron, appears here as a young idealist. David Sims, The Atlantic, 31 Aug. 2022 Christina Stead gives an unflinching portrait of her own childhood, dominated by improvidence, quarrels and violence—and a crazed, buccaneering idealist of a father who both adores and exploits his ever-increasing brood of children. Marina Warner, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022 Nothing about her manner would indicate an idealist practicing one of the most threatened and beleaguered professions in the country during a crucial moment in American history. Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 13 July 2022 This perhaps best encapsulates Seydoux on film, an idealist and a realist, with film itself being both a business and an art to her. Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2022 Hilson plays Naomi Josef, a fresh-faced, smart and enthusiastic idealist who leads with her heart and radiates warmth. Selome Hailu, Variety, 12 May 2022 That the unravelling happens to the high idealist automatically sets up the misdirection. Willing Davidson, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022 Speaking to the crowd, Musk slipped into the comfortable role as the billionaire idealist who dreams of saving the planet by ending humanity’s dependence on fossil fuels. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2022
Adjective
No other festival or event has done more to nurture, develop and celebrate the idealist peculiarities and cultural eccentricities of modern festival culture quite like the merry men and women of Glastonbury. Dave Brooks, Billboard, 28 June 2022 The story follows Mickey Haller (Garcia-Rulfo), an iconoclastic idealist criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles who runs his practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln. Dana Feldman, Forbes, 26 May 2022 The appeal of far-left ideology, with its idealist cast, is, to the French, particularly to French youth, a cultural constant. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2022 But Nakagin truly fit the bill: a building that became a symbol of architecture’s most idealist tendencies and of Tokyo itself. Carolina A. Mirandacolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2022 The company that has a bit of an idealist quality to it. Karen Walker, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2022 The shift happened alongside the realization that the tech industry was no longer the niche realm of idealist computer geeks.New York Times, 18 Nov. 2021 Jane is an idealist, convinced that her love of the crowd and the quality of her music will attract fans.BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2021 Consider both the idealist and realist cases for stepping into this global leadership role. Ben Sasse, WSJ, 17 May 2021 See More