Sentences with phrase «of young idealists»

He had often come across what seemed to him to be the scruples of young idealists who had been determined to do everything perfectly and then worried at their failure.

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Even Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg makes a good show of it these days, not to mention an entire generation of as - yet uncontaminated young idealists.

But we could hypothesize that «whenever a principle such as «Parliamentary Reform» is found in the antecedent world as a contrast between (a) moderate revival of an old ideal, (b) ultraconservative reaction, (c) popular anticipation of radical change, and (d) a vehicle for the ambitions of young politicians and idealists, then the principle in form (d) is most likely to be articulated as the primary element in some event emerging from that antecedent world.»

Yet it was his openness to new cultural styles, including laid - back music and funky fashions of California's early surfer scene, that helped him reach young idealists and inspire a trend toward seeker - sensitive congregations.

The local habitation for much of his life was Salem, Massachusetts, with important chapters elsewhere: as a boy along the idyllic shores of Lake Sebago, Maine; as a student at Maine's Bowdoin College; as a young idealist at the Brook Farm Utopian community west of Boston (1841); as a married man in Emerson's Concord (1842 — 45); as a summer neighbor of Herman Melville in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts (1850); as a mature writer and consular official in Liverpool, England (1853 — 58); and as a traveler and resident in Italy (1858 — 59)-- before a final period of ill health and death in Concord (1859 — 1864).

(This point was established by E. Hirsch in his younger days in a critique of idealist philosophy.

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.»

Many of my fellow young idealists could do well to receive a hearty slap in the face from him!

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.

Far from being a tidal wave of new, young idealists, he cites research showing that, overall, only 12 % of his voters were under 24 years old.

Slender and petite, Naveen appears too slight to contain the passion that burns in her large, dark eyes when she speaks of the «promising, brilliant young woman with her whole life ahead of her» — the idealist, the student, the soccer player, the devoted friend.

9:30 am — TCM — Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra puts on his idealist hat to tell the story of Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), an inexperienced young man appointed as a junior senator because the corrupt senior senator thinks heíll be easy to control.

The first half hour of the film we are introduced to Mala Evan (Evan Rachel Wood) a young idealist and scientist who spends her free time flying around in hang gliders with her best friend Senn (Justin Long) and living in their city that look like 20 story tall mushrooms.

Angela Lansbury is the beautiful young music hall singer that Dorian drives to suicide when he cruelly spurns her and Donna Reed is the daughter of the portrait painter who adores Dorian, an innocent and idealist who Dorian is afraid of destroying through his vice.

9:15 am — TCM — Mr. Smith Goes to Washington Frank Capra puts on his idealist hat to tell the story of Jefferson Smith (James Stewart), an inexperienced young man appointed as a junior senator because the corrupt senior senator thinks he'll be easy to control.

The opposite of Somerset, Mills is young idealist who's also naïve and volatile.

But the film's most inspired performance is that of Dohmnall Gleeson, sporting a luxuriant ginger beard as Konstantin Levin, an idealist aristocrat hopelessly in love with a spoiled young debutante.

You'd certainly take that colour scheme any day over this schlocky dystopian sci - fier that chains you to the coalface of the dreaded «young adult» genre, where heroes must be «special» on a messianic level and villains are parent - shaped authority figures looking to put young idealists in cages.

In the spirit of change, many of the charter schools were hiring bright young idealists, generally from school districts outside of New Orleans.

``... Wendy Kopp declared that she had a force of young, predominantly - Ivy - League idealists for sale, and Big Money arrived on the scene to make the purchase.

Featuring portraits of subjects ranging from civil rights icon Malcolm X to staunch segregationist George Wallace, as well as powerful politicians, ordinary citizens, young idealists and elderly pacifists, the photographs question how Americans understand race relations, their own identities and the identities and civil rights of others.

Joanna Billing's young people milling about have something to do with a Project for a Revolution, but they make Jean - Luc Godard's «children of Marx and Coca - Cola» look like idealists by comparison.

For the young idealists who supported the Spanish republic were right to see Spain as a war for the future of Europe, with Hitler trying out methods he would soon use elsewhere.