Sentences with phrase «last idealist»

However, there are and will continue to be any number of idealists; «the last idealist» has yet to be born.

Thus Hartshorne belongs broadly within the idealist tradition.29 At one of the recent meetings of the American Philosophical Association, a young man who stood up to speak identified himself as «the last idealist in captivity.»

I am convinced that the hope of peace lies not so much in statesmen, who have already shown themselves bankrupt of ideas, but in people of all countries who demand the cessation of war in which they pay so horrible a price [W. A. Swanberg, Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist, Scribners (1976) p. 58].

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Or this idealist, weak, philosopher / manager for last 8 years?

Since I am (as you now know from last week's Civil Eats post) more of a realist than an idealist, I'm not especially hopeful that our elected officials will suddenly find the courage to defy Big Food — and forgo its campaign contributions — nor am I hopeful that industry will change its ways voluntarily on a widespread basis.

More important than his legacy of helping to spare us the Jamesport nuclear plant, and likely the others which were sure to dot the eastern Long Island landscape, was his inspiration for all of us, especially young people who seek role models for public service: that when you hold on to what you know is right and work hard, even struggle, to make the world a better place, you're more than just an idealist, you're someone who can make a real and lasting difference.

I have not become some woolly - minded idealist since I was last a reforming minister.

If we have crisis conditions, the last thing I want is a dovish idealist as Fed chairman.»

However, the pairing of Novros's «Untitled» oil on canvas, (15 parts)(1969), which was shown in his last memorable exhibit at Paula Cooper last September of 2009, and Judd's «Untitled» (1989), a Douglas Fir plywood piece, was splendidly tuned, partly because it's an interesting exchange of two artists, one, a logical empiricist who aspires to be an idealist, the other, an idealist, who thinks himself a logical empiricist.

Even now, given the nature of proxies — for which the word «independence» must often seem like the concept of a crazed idealist — I doubt that it is possible to say with anything approaching certainty that the current «divergence» phenomenon has never happened before during the last millenium.