How to Use idealist in a Sentence

idealist

1 of 2 noun

• Jamie, the youngest, is an idealist and ready for anything.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• Like many of his college chums, Nick used to be an idealist.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 13 Mar. 2022
• And Joan, in return, is a mad fury instead of a mere idealist.
  — New York Times, 1 July 2021
• In the 1990s, the idealists of the rock underground went mainstream, and sellout got a second wind.
  — Franz Nicolay, Slate Magazine, 28 July 2017
• But the idealist in me says that there are a lot of people who are taking up bed space in jail that belongs to someone else.
  — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Mar. 2020
• In it, a young romantic idealist falls head over heels for a young woman.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 31 Oct. 2023
• But Leys was no idealist in seeing the party as already dead.
  — Ian Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• But ideals fill the idealist with a certain kind of joy, a joy that is not identical to happiness.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• These pragmatic idealists are dreamers like Poynter who work hard and want to change the world — but don’t have a network or a plan.
  — Stepfanie Romine, Indianapolis Star, 30 Apr. 2018
• Essaibi George is working to cast Wu as a head-in-the-clouds idealist who won’t be able to deliver on her grand promises.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2021
• The architects of the new order were not utopian idealists.
  — Robert Kagan, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2018
• An idealist would say no flags or anthems should be allowed.
  — Bill Livingston, cleveland.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• The move hardened their view of Gascón as an idealist with a limited grasp of how to run the office on a practical basis.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
• His conversion from a fear junkie to a cautious idealist should be a main focus of Justice League.
  — Simon Abrams, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Nov. 2017
• Sophie Taeuber-Arp, the abstract artist who died in 1943 at the age of fifty-three, was the most exquisitely chastened of all the idealists of her generation.
  — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 7 Mar. 2019
• Not just because the young idealist who wanted to save the world has evolved into a wizened realist.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Jan. 2020
• Merkel’s commitment to a united Europe is not that of an idealist.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• Midhat Kamal is a lonely idealist whose merchant father sends him to France to study in 1914.
  — Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2019
• The architect, now 93, is a realist as well as an idealist.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• His lawyers, all talented idealists, just wanted to save his life.
  — William Finnegan, Smithsonian, 18 May 2018
• Despite it all, Caroline remains an idealist with a long view of things.
  — Carl Swanson, Town & Country, 28 Nov. 2022
• Many other companies took note of what at first may have seemed like a luxury of West Coast idealists and have followed suit.
  — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
• For seven months, a tiny band of idealists dressed in brown linen dined on such spartan fare as unleavened bread, water and porridge.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
• If Sanders’ brand appeals to the lefty idealist, Buttigieg’s is designed for the moderate pragmatist.
  — Charlotte Alter / Iowa Falls, Time, 15 Oct. 2019
• Among his other Yale students were a pair of ambitious idealists named Bill and Hillary Clinton.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 5 July 2019
• First off, there’s a $3 penalty for public daydreaming, which is a financial deathblow for an idealist who wants to change the world.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
• In fact, the groundwork has been carefully laid, and the butt of the joke, as usual, is Coogan, whose boast of being a fearless idealist and latter-day George Orwell looks as though it will be put to the test.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 24 Aug. 2017
• But Zoabi is both clear-eyed and an idealist, which makes the comedy interesting.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 29 July 2019
• But there are also young idealists and those who want to be reunited with partners and their families.
  — Cassie Werber, Quartz, 24 Feb. 2023
• But some voters may no longer look up to the veteran congressman as a courageous idealist.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2024

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idealist

2 of 2 adjective

• 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
• 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
• Hawks make both idealist and realist arguments for staying in Afghanistan.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Consider both the idealist and realist cases for stepping into this global leadership role.
  — Ben Sasse, WSJ, 17 May 2021
• But if some nations have proven susceptible to toxic idealist nonsense, Americans have become more and more receptive to toxic pragmatic nonsense.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• 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.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Witnessing the best and worst of humanity helped make McCain both an idealist and pragmatist, as well as an unconventional, independent-minded senator who yet revered the Senate’s institutional traditions.
  — Geoffrey Kabaservice, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
• 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
• 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
• Hawks make both idealist and realist arguments for staying in Afghanistan.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Consider both the idealist and realist cases for stepping into this global leadership role.
  — Ben Sasse, WSJ, 17 May 2021
• But if some nations have proven susceptible to toxic idealist nonsense, Americans have become more and more receptive to toxic pragmatic nonsense.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• 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.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Witnessing the best and worst of humanity helped make McCain both an idealist and pragmatist, as well as an unconventional, independent-minded senator who yet revered the Senate’s institutional traditions.
  — Geoffrey Kabaservice, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024