as in romantic
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
the starry-eyed notion that international sports competitions actually help foster global harmony
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In Sorrentino’s take on the myth and love letter to Naples, Parthenope spends her youthful summers falling in love and searching for meaning through her academics and romantic relationships.—
Matt Minton,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2025 -
There are nods to these unique challenges in Running Point, like Isla’s attraction to the Waves’ head coach (Insecure's Jay Ellis), and then a mistakenly romantic dinner meeting with a point guard (Chet Hanks) that turns into a viral misunderstanding.—
Jake Kring-Schreifels,
TIME,
27 Feb. 2025
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Yet these technologies mostly proved impractical for broader application.—
Raphael S. Cohen,
Foreign Affairs,
18 Feb. 2025
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However, there are too many impractical design details.—
Adrienne So,
WIRED,
13 Feb. 2025
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And some of his proposals were the products of an idealistic, romantically inclined mind, such as prohibiting physicians from collecting a fee if a patient in their care died, and abolishing capital punishment in Fort Worth.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Feb. 2025
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The interviews paint a picture of an idealistic leader set on achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) — a type of AI that mimics human capabilities — and transforming China into a technology innovator.—
Anniek Bao,Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
19 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Reality check: Some outside commentators see techno as telling a dystopian story in Detroit, amid population decline and auto industry layoffs, contrasted with a free, post-Cold War utopian narrative in Europe, according to MSU English professor Julian Chambliss.—
Annalise Frank,
Axios,
27 Feb. 2025
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Already detectable here is the same mix of utopian politics and pragmatic can-do that would shape the emerging ethos of 2 Tone.—
Ian Penman,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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In the new release, Temple plays idealist scientist Dr. Teddy Paine opposite Chiwetel Ejiofor’s General Rex Strickland — the overseer of a secret research facility dedicated to symbiotes.—
Raven Brunner,
People.com,
25 Oct. 2024
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The movie stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina, an idealist architect with the power to control time, who is determined to rebuild a city that seems like New York after an accident plunges it into ruins.—
Marco della Cava,
USA TODAY,
8 Sep. 2024
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