Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2023 But if some nations have proven susceptible to toxic idealist nonsense, Americans have become more and more receptive to toxic pragmatic nonsense. 2023 Her sing-songy voice is the perfect vessel for Ephron's eloquent dialogue, which makes the character an endlessly charming romantic and idealist, perfectly balancing humorous cynicism and sincere emotion. 2023Īdjective But even his aspirations to idealist fantasy would be short-lived. San Diego Union-Tribune, From march to oath of office and inaugural address, the event was painstakingly choreographed to distinguish this great Democratic idealist from Republican governors.

2023 Panamanian writer and actor Gabriela Sosa presents the comic stage adaptation of her 2014 novel about a jaded idealist on a quest to sound the alarm about the Earth’s climate crisis. 2023 But there are also young idealists and those who want to be reunited with partners and their families. Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2021 But when his career stalls and he is given an opportunity to do on-site research in Western Africa, Hoffmann the idealist becomes morally complicit in the atrocities committed by the colonial authorities. 2023 But Segal is an idealist, with a point to prove.

Houman Barekat, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020 But its shortcomings are essentially those of the novel: its single-track didacticism its neat pitting of romantic idealists against macho, insentient normies and the fact that a decisive plot twist can be spotted a mile off. Ross Douthat New York Times, Star Tribune, 23 Sep. Noun But that might be an idealist's fancy.

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