Sentences with phrase «overly idealistic»

It sounds crazy and overly idealistic, but there's actually some precedent for it.

Perhaps I am being overly idealistic but I would expect that disappointed former councillors of all parties would still be prepared to knock on doors for their parliamentary candidates.

NEW YORK CITY — In their final debate before the Democratic primary, mayoral candidates pummeled front - runner Bill de Blasio, calling him a flip - flopper and overly idealistic.

Still, it's not hard to imagine what Michels would have made of the Labour Party's current difficulties with its new rules for electing the party's leader: he would surely have considered them overly idealistic in their conception, and borderline incompetent in their execution.

One difficulty with jai alai is that too many politicians who are at best overly idealistic and at worst crooked have been overseeing the game, and proper regulation of the game is almost unknown.

Her reputation declined, owing in part to the souring of attitudes toward the Victorians, of which she was deemed to be the first partly because of overly idealistic biographies published after her death.

On this side of the ocean, Secretary of the Navy John Lehman blamed «a few uninformed and overly idealistic religious leaders.»

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.

I'm not seeing a reason why, aside from people being overly idealistic and thinking, «Man, it'd be awesome to be on Mars.»

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It's overly simplistic, sentimental, and idealistic, but we do need films like this, and I will always defend Capra and his work for this reason, even if I don't want to watch this sort of thing all the time.

Mackenzie Davis plays the uber - philosophical, idealistic Tully, who freely shares her overly - cutesy words of wisdom with Marlo.

This is every overly contrived, unrealistic and idealistic piece of trashy romance fiction when it had the prestige, the strength of casting and the intrigue to be a much better movie.

I know I often tend to be idealistic and overly optimistic at the beginning of each year, and this often does not work well when it comes time to evaluate the progress I've made.

Sometimes people do actually need to tone down or dumb down their resumes if they genuinely seek a lower position because there aren't any at their level available and they need a paycheck (I love to be idealistic but now is a time for reality), or because of personal reasons (want less responsibility, job is close to home, etc.) Recruiters can and will toss out resumes for overly experienced or educated applicants before even speaking to them.»