Sentences with phrase «as idealistic»

Those who are pragmatic will craft alternate plans as their idealistic counterparts search desperately for employment -LSB-...]

There are people who now see the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same way as idealistic Englishmen in the 1930s saw the Spanish Civil War.

Ronald McDonald started out as an idealistic libertarian, because he offered cheap food to people who could not afford it.

McElheny takes impetus from the activism of recent years, but Prismatic Park reconceives this ferment as an idealistic, almost utopian concept for the shared responsibility towards a public site that still allots space for the highly individual, unique voice.

In 1977, Marcia Tucker even founded a new museum — appropriately enough called the New Museum — whose mission, as idealistic as the time itself, was to show the kind of work excluded from the rest of the art world.

Seeing the gang back when it was still running as an idealistic, Robin hood-esque vigilante anti-hero outfit, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, will be an interesting antithesis to how every member goes quite clearly morally depraved 12 years later.

Beginning as an idealistic kid and growing into a cynical, profit - minded adult, the man has a counterpoint in a wild boar that acts as a stand in for the impact human activity has on wildlife.

He was perhaps, as idealistic in his goals as those whites who manned the Underground RR.

Gugu is just terrific as the idealistic free - spirit who transforms Crowne and lights up her every scene.

Premise: George Clooney's adaptation of Beau Willimon's play Farragut North features Ryan Gosling as an idealistic political consultant who believes he's found a real «change candidate» (played by Clooney), but soon discovers that even doing what's right in politics requires so much compromise that it's impossible to stay ethically pure.

For Maya, Will relives his past as a idealistic young man learning the ins and outs of big city politics, and recounts the history of his romantic relationships with three very different women.

His take on the character saw him as an idealistic man who had been beaten down by a corrupt system.

The film stars Emily Blunt as idealistic FBI Agent Kate Macy, who's recruited by a CIA official (Josh Brolin) to aid in the escalating war against drugs.

Opening September 2, the AWFJ Movie of the Week is Sicario, which stars the exceptional Emily Blunt (Edge of Tomorrow, Into the Woods) as an idealistic FBI agent who finds herself in the middle of the escalating war on drugs taking place on the border between the United States and Mexico..

Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard as idealistic environmentalists in the Pactific Northwest, Reichardt and co-writer Jonathan Raymond set out to see just how much tension can be squeezed out of the most mundane of people and situations.

But it's imperative with a film like this to enjoy all the simple things as well as the complex; Frances's walks about town are as integral to the story as her idealistic conversations with Sophie; with her parents; with her peers at the dance company.

Seeing the gang back when it was still running as an idealistic, Robin hood-esque vigilante anti-hero outfit, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, will be an interesting antithesis to how every member goes quite clearly morally depraved 12 years later.

Walking the line between hagiography and cold warrior propaganda, Soderbergh's movie depicts the titular militant as idealistic, hopeful, and caring, but also flawed and struggling.

He exudes plenty of wide - eyed fury and intensity as Alexander the warrior balanced by the controlled calculation of a hyper - effective military commander although he isn't nearly as effective as the idealistic pre-world-conqueror Alexander as he is spiraling down into the haunted angst - ridden Alexander at the end of his obsessive crusade.

As an idealistic college professor (Robert Redford) attempts to ignite the spark of genius he sees in a lazy, privileged student, two of his former pupils fight for their lives behind enemy lines in Afghanistan, and a slick congressman (Tom Cruise) attempts to sell a skeptical journalist (Meryl Streep) on his new plans for the ongoing War on Terror.

While Ethan Bishop begins as an idealistic police officer, he eventually resorts to guns and fist - fighting to keep the gang out.

O'Donnell stars as idealistic young attorney Adam Hall who takes on the death row clemency case of his onetime Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall (Hackman).

Edmond O'Brien stars as an idealistic state's attorney assigned to crack down on a crime syndicate.

The film follows Emily Blunt as an idealistic FBI agent who begins to question her beliefs when she's enlisted by an elite government task force official (Josh Brolin) to aid in the violent war on drugs.

All three lead performances are superb but Stuart Wilson excels, oozing flawed dignity as the idealistic but cowardly husband.

Owners of the agencies and managers of the websites describe the women as idealistic wives and women with very modest requirements.

As idealistic as the notion is, when the chemistry is there, there is no reason not to seize the moment and strike while the iron is hot.

As an idealistic teen entering her twenties, I had a set of core beliefs that I firmly put into action.

But she said the worst that could happen would be that she got only 1 percent of the vote, and that she became known as an idealistic but politically naïve professor.

It is viewed as an idealistic mirage that will come crashing down to political reality by the time the general election rolls around.

A man who stands up for a bit of Britain's precious greenery might be hailed as an idealistic environmentalist preserving our national heritage... right up to the point people discover he lives in the country, next to a field even.

I was 24 when I got pregnant with my first baby, my daughter, and was as idealistic as my age at the time would imply.

She was as idealistic and secluded as the whimsical, fluffy - brained campus philosophers she hated.

As idealistic as it may sound, Zimmern has a point in saying that we may be able to solve our problems by pretty much sitting at the table with our neighbors.

14 In philosophy the empirical and naturalistic school (John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer) as well as the idealistic (Thomas Hill Green, Bernard Bosanquet) focused their attention on the problems of the nature and development of society.

Third, when you're as idealistic as I am, there's a good chance that disappointment and frustration will be a part of the deal.

When Obama landed on Chicago's South Side in 1985 as an idealistic 23 - year - old, eager to start work as a community organizer, he was already a political liberal.

Well, I'm not as idealistic as I once was.

Burnham's push can be seen as both idealistic and part and parcel of another metro newspaper trend.

LinkedIn's vision — which includes creating a digital profile for every company and worker in the world and lifting the global economy — may come off as an idealistic pipe dream to many.

As I sit in his private meeting room in Livestrong's 35,000 - square - foot offices, a LEED - certified beauty that's all skylights and reclaimed wood, it's easy to imagine Ulman as that idealistic young athlete, suddenly derailed by cancer.

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«As a company, we were too idealistic and optimistic and didn't focus enough on preventing abuse or thinking through how people could use the tools our platform provides to do harm,» Facebook said in a statement to Entrepreneur.

Too often, protecting the environment is couched either as a partisan issue or as one that pits idealistic tree - huggers against business - minded realists.

Plenty of idealistic business people read it and, in the case of Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh — who had already been experimenting with making the online shoe retailer a hierarchy - free «Holacracy» — embraced it as gospel.

Her pep talks are filled with counterintuitive advice such as, «slow down time» and «gain your power by letting go,» but these directives don't seem idealistic when coming from Harder, founder of the Bliss Project; they seem downright fun.

But the most remarkable fact about SpaceX is that — right from the start, before the first rocket had lifted an inch off the ground — it was explicitly intended as the means to another, far more grandiose and idealistic end: colonizing Mars.

Conservatives unfurled a series of «in over his head» ads against Justin Trudeau within 24 hours of his leadership win in 2013, though Canadians ultimately chose to define Trudeau as the charismatic idealistic prime ministerial type — after some handy corrective work from the Liberals» own messaging efforts.

Satoshi Nakamoto's idealistic vision of «one CPU one vote» has been superseded by a reality where the manufacture and distribution of mining equipment have become dominated by a very small number of entities, some of which have engaged in abusive practices against individual miners and the Bitcoin network as a whole.

Please adjust your thinking according to reality and FACTUAL evidences about god's ACTIONS as EVIDENCED and not some idealistic egoist psychosis and disillusion projection about «HOW» you think god is.

Call me overly idealistic, but I would much rather use Limbaugh's comments as a chance to show contrast between the conservative talk show host's vitriol and a progressive, tolerant, civil, informed discourse.