Sentences with phrase «more idealistic»

That world was far more idealistic than it is today, and people responded to Townsend's radical but gentle temperament.

No doubt, Mike enjoyed moving us through the dimly lit maze, passed a portrait of Jackie O. and John F. Kennedy and recalling the more idealistic days of America, if not the better days of this market.

The shift from Chicago to the San Francisco Bay Area comes with a brighter, more idealistic outlook, with the focus now on undermining a corrupt power structure instead of chasing a tragic vendetta.

There were plenty more idealistic assurances; Animal Crossing would be announced, along with a Smash Bros. port.

«I see a higher consciousness as far as animals are concerned as people have a more idealistic picture of animal ownership in their head, but there is still a broad degree of animal ownership and overall how people feel about animals,» she said.

Its is all well and good to construct hoops for leaners to jump through based upon more idealistic / romantic notions of what is to be produced after 13 years (including transition), where education is seen as satisfying an industrial orientated outcome based upon neo-liberalist ideals.

However, it quickly becomes clear that White wants to distance his movie from any such accusation, with one of the film's younger, more idealistic characters eventually chiding Brad for whining about his rather generous lot in life.

After years of anticipation, director Zack Snyder helmed the project that finds Batman's dour philosophy battling Superman's more idealistic viewpoint.

His ambitions are far more idealistic and unattainable.

But it's also filled with amoral and corrupt characters in the game for profit, not patriotism, and even the more idealistic players are forced to debase themselves in the line of duty.

In my younger years I was a bit more idealistic and stopped dating multiple girls when I felt like I had a serious connection with a girl.

«I am often under the impression that young researchers are actually far more idealistic than their experienced colleagues, but sadly see their idealism eroding over time.

But the students of the new millennium are more idealistic.

I also think part of it is that they in many ways are more idealistic because they grew up with the revolution they believed in it, if they had to let go of that belief, but they turned to something else.

There are any number of people within his own government who would kill him, either to take over, or a more idealistic person might just want to end the nightmare... if they thought they might succeed.

We want to dig into the practicalities that give rise to more idealistic situations.

If a woman gives up on a big paycheck at some corporate job because she'd rather follow her dreams and become an artist, or because she'd rather do something more idealistic and save the world, does that make her a non-feminist?

Keith on the other hand is much more idealistic.

Humanism is unquestionably a far more idealistic creed than hedonism.

«For more than twenty years I've been a reporter, a job that people say is sure to make you cynical and has somehow only left me more idealistic.»

Likewise, some of the «unconverted,» perhaps particularly among those with strong religious convictions, may yet be moved by more idealistic arguments for a different sense of what human life as such deserves, the horror of a particular individual's behavior notwithstanding.

These young people have rejected this form of worship because they are younger & more idealistic.

Not exact matches

«These idealistic hippie kids tend to have a more conservative mindset in terms of investing, because they saw the results of the tech bubble, September 11 and the [Great Recession of] 2008,» he said.

While the report may seem idealistic, more Americans (especially city folk) are warming up to carpools.

From one perspective Isabella McCann may exemplify the desires of a new generation: idealistic and committed to changing the world perhaps more so than any generation that preceded it since the late 1960s.

The idea was to illustrate some provocative, even idealistic, possibilities, more than it was to lay out a concrete game plan for a forthcoming line of products.

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.

One more point about the idealistic past that you refer to, I would be allowed to have slaves legally.

Since neither cynical liberal supporters of Clinton, nor idealistic liberal supporters of Sanders see much prospect of general election defeat, they are both willing to take more risks (both ethical and ideological) in order to get more of what they want after the 2016 election.

In the most recent Republican debate, several Republican candidates tried to distinguish themselves from the idealistic Rubio by pointing out that Syria was more peaceful (and less of a source of global terror) when the Assad regime ran the whole country, and that Bashar al - Assad might be the lesser evil compared to ISIS.

Rarely is this more obvious than at Christmastime, when even the most idealistic of us cave in to the relentless desire to buy, buy, buy.

In relationship to the past and present, the new consciousness will likely be more sensuous, ecstatic, erotic, earthy, bodily oriented, festive, playful, feminine, idealistic, utopian, mystical, sacramental, hedonistic — in sum, a quest for joy in the wholeness of body and spirit.

It seems to me that the present - day attack on metaphysics is nothing more than an attack on idealistic constructions of this type, after the fashion (say) of Hegel or Bradley.

Sigh... if it weren't midnight, and I wasn't heading to off to bed knowing I'll be up every two hours all night long with my baby daughter, I might do a little more in terms of backing up my idealistic, Polly - Anna comments.

During the course of the decade the militancy of its rhetoric rose as its mass appeal correlatively declined but as is usual in the history of American socialism it was based far more on idealistic zeal than on class interest.

On occasion Reinhold Niebuhr allowed that Rauschenbusch was more prophetic and a bit less idealistic than the movement, but he never pressed the point, and he blasted both Rauschenbusch and the movement repeatedly.

A more lofty and idealistic one is that most of us, as Jews, hardly know ourselves or have a sense of Judaism that is not in some way tied up with our experience as cultured members of Western Civilization, which is Christianized not only in an explicit religious sense but also in the pathos and longing of its secular consciousness, as exemplified in its literature and art.

I really admire your steadfastness to your ideolgy on what a football fan, and more importantly, an Arsenal fan should be, it is definitely to be commended but sometimes, to me, it seems to be to idealistic, too black and white at times and maybe kel has a small point that you use and miss - use information to further your own point at times.

Release yourself from an idealistic vision of the holiday and embrace a more realistic one.

Everyone having the same weight is a naive goal, «one person, one vote» is more a system of minimizing the potential for abuse than one of idealistic equality.

As Theos director Elizabeth Hunter notes, this «turns upside down the assumption that the young will be idealistic and hopeful about public life, while the old tend to be more disappointed and cynical».

Whereas the idealistic Baker perceived that the future well - being planet might be more important than mere party politics, Huhne wasn't going to have the Tories muscling in on traditional Lib Dem territory.

Yet it's Spitzer's temperament, even more than his biography, that truly embodies the city: He's restless, idealistic, and cutthroat at the same time, and always playing offense.

These ongoing internal debates may not have been resolved to either side's satisfaction, but they have died down much more of late, as Conservative Future has got down to the less idealistic but far more useful work of recruiting members and organising events.

He and Clegg were more businesslike than they were at the famous Rose Garden press conference in May 2010, when they spoke in idealistic terms about the advantages of coalition, and Cameron turned this into a joke.

«Many years ago — more years ago than I would like to remember — I was where these graduates are today: eager, idealistic, a little anxious,» he said.

That move might have worked when David Owen was interested in it in the 1980's, but it was a really unwise change when the Tories were acting more liberal and Labour were out for idealistic centre - left voters.

Tap back into my faith; I am a spiritual, idealistic person and denying that was not serving me; I am more balance when I can believe in something greater than myself.

To a certain extent the film argues that the actual working nature of the British Empire was determined more by individual desire than anything more noble or idealistic (insofar as empire - building could be either of those things).

Synopsis: Discreet, idealistic and intensely loyal, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) finds that service in the OSS and later as a founding member of the Central In... [MORE]