Sentences with phrase «with idealistic»

I started out with an idealistic view of wanting to defend clients charged with murder.

He seems to rely on relating everything to an established defined concensus position with an idealistic view that peer review ensures the concensus is ultimately the correct position.

In other pieces in the show, everyday objects such as books are transformed by applying to them the geometry of paper ornaments and minimalist sculpture (Minimal Bibliography), and photographed window fences with geometric designs are isolated from their functional environment by cutting the prints and flattening the illusionistic space of the photograph, thus relating those specific daily life situations with the idealistic language of modernist geometric abstraction (Popular Geometry).

However, art can get away with idealistic gestures when they point to real - world change.

ZERO was established in the aftermath of World War II; seeking new beginnings, with idealistic and utopian ambition, the group strove to produce a radical and optimistic global art that dissolved boundaries and embraced elemental forces of nature.

Making Home: Contemporary Works from the DIA presents a range of works by artists from the DIA's collections of Prints, Drawings and Photographs and Contemporary art that are concerned with idealistic representations of home.

In order to comply with their idealistic arrangement, and maintain their public image, they have to restrict their intake of animals to only those that have the best chance of being adopted.

Mercedes - Benz SLS AMG have huge creation model with an idealistic combination of classy high - end car.

I entered the teaching profession with an idealistic view of what the country thought of its nation's teachers, but have found that the profession has lost its prestige.

Some years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young minds with Big Ideas.

As a career CIA operative (George Clooney) begins to uncover the disturbing truth about the work he has devoted his life to, an up - and - coming oil broker (Matt Damon) faces an unimaginable family tragedy and finds redemption in his partnership with an idealistic Gulf prince (Alexander Siddig).

But she's also dealing with a lost love affair with idealistic doctor Aziz.

Prior to 1906, Dutch van der Linde led his gang with an idealistic mentality, acting as a paternal figure to the members while viewing his acts as that of vigilantism.

In a city mired in high - level corruption, a cynical police captain clashes with an idealistic district attorney over questionable techniques used to nab an elusive mobster.

Film, TV and novels bombard us with idealistic images of romance and the «perfect» relationship, and these things set us up to fail.

Our analyses triggered a reaction of people with an idealistic and unsustainable view of science who thought they were under attack.

Kelly Holmes is The (Reformed) Idealist Mom, a blogger who started her journey with an idealistic picture of what her life as a parenting would be like.

However, he's a loyal guy with idealistic views.

The sciences of nature know nothing of spiritual presences, and on the whole hold no practical commerce whatever with the idealistic conceptions towards which general philosophy inclines.

By identifying God with infinity, Gregory puts himself into a hole that he can never quite fill with his idealistic view of matter.

Whether Dean has analyzed the «old» historicism accurately or not, what he calls the «new historicism» is not so much «new» as it is one - sided in its apparent identification of experience with idealistic creativity.

Not exact matches

It was idealistic and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

But from The Simpsons to the web, much of what the latter claims for their own actually made its way into popular culture through a group of young people with an altogether different world view from the idealistic, perennially frustrated young consumers that obsess marketers today.

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.

A preferable, admittedly idealistic, alternative model would be one that rewards delivery of sustainable value at scale with consistent compensation for founders and all significant value producers.

He struck a profoundly idealistic note in his speech, but his hopefulness imbued a generation of Americans with the audacity to change the world.

Love takes the time to meticulously explore all the characteristics and nuances about a person rather than fill in the blanks with projected idealistic expectations.

He shares with his numerous predecessors the determination to suppress all problems of the economic base, their idealistic tendencies and their belittling of the class struggle in the naïve terms of a vague humanism.

Describing herself, Kristen says, «I'm an idealistic and poetic sort, but with a strong streak of practicality.

I think there's a pretty nice cycle for seminary students: year 1: totally enthusiastic, young idealistic faith year 2: fairly smug, enthralled with knowing and using hip theology terms year 3: tired, disillusioned, a little bitter, anti-something or other year 4: just starting to get over one's self, wanting to «get out there»

Yes, I was idealistic and naive (goes with the territory when you're 15).

I personally would not be contacting an ex with something like that unless there was some agenda, but perhaps her motives were idealistic.

However, as I've gotten older, I've developed a less idealistic perspective on adoption, realizing that adoption carries with it its own set of challenges, challenges I don't want to take lightly.

The Christian indeed has always recognised the immediate primacy of secondary causes in the bringing about of natural phenomena, but as serial causes have been traced further back, and their astonishing inter-dependence demonstrated, the scientist has tended to proclaim either a mathematical universe in which theses secondary causes may be identified with some primary basic formula, or equation, synonymous in definition with a physical ultimate, a universe inwhich God has no place; or else he has preferred to identify intellect with matter itself and has come to accept that idealistic cosmic pantheism which is almost as common a philosophy today as evolutionary materialism.

Rosenberg said, the poll «charts a path» to help deal with what is an «idealistic» and engaged» population.

The latter is a tangled problem at best, but it is clear that among the important founders of the process perspective — specifically I mean James, Peirce, Bergson, Whitehead, Dewey, and Hartshorne — it is Hartshorne's work which comes closest to being a kind of personalism.1 Whitehead explicitly sets aside the personalist perspective in Religion in the Making, considering its claims beyond the possibility of being established.2 On the other side, a number of personalists have been sympathetic to process thought, and Brightman is surely principal among them.3 Here I will not investigate the question of whether personalism in general, or even the idealistic type, is reconcilable with process thought.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

With that discovery it becomes impossible even for a moment to take seriously either a realistic metaphysics according to which metaphysical propositions state our empirical knowledge of the categorical characteristics of reality, or an idealistic or psychological metaphysics according to which these depend upon the way in which the human mind as such is always and everywhere constructed... We must start again at the beginning and construct a new metaphysical theory which will face the facts revealed by history.

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.

He characterizes his view in the following manner (p. 107): «It shares with certain forms of idealistic metaphysics in a very limited and -LRB-[hope) purified way, a conception of reality and combines with it the tenable component of materialism, viz., the conviction that the basic laws of the universe are «physical.»»

Moreover, the linkage of supposedly idealistic protest with violence and aggression is also very much a part our modern Western political aesthetic.

Process philosophy offers definite advantages for Christian theology over earlier naturalistic and idealistic philosophies because it recognizes the qualitative discontinuities in human existence and refuses to identify God with any natural process.

How innocent, idealistic, and naif the young dissident writers seemed in contrast with the suave authors I knew in London.

This was the culmination of a process that had begun with some of the world's cleverest and most idealistic young men and women setting out a program for utopia.

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.

With an entirely straight face, indeed with moral earnestness, Frank Rich continues in that idealistic vein for which Anna Quindlen was so admired by herself: «Perhaps these drawbacks are still troublesome today, but they are nothing next to such alternatives as unwanted babies or diseWith an entirely straight face, indeed with moral earnestness, Frank Rich continues in that idealistic vein for which Anna Quindlen was so admired by herself: «Perhaps these drawbacks are still troublesome today, but they are nothing next to such alternatives as unwanted babies or disewith moral earnestness, Frank Rich continues in that idealistic vein for which Anna Quindlen was so admired by herself: «Perhaps these drawbacks are still troublesome today, but they are nothing next to such alternatives as unwanted babies or disease.

The romantic or idealistic love between a teenage boy and girl (frequently still to be found even in our modern sensualised world) may also be accompanied by a desire to show bodily affection - a desire filled with a tenderness and respect that operate as a curb, not only on lust if it seeks to assert itself, but also on bodily expressions of love which would not be true to the real existential relationship between the couple.

At the same time, there are religions, and some of them among the «higher» religions, which so emphasize the mystical, or it may be the ritual: aspect of religion (to use the imprecise but serviceable terms) that social ethics seem hardly to count, On the other hand, there are systems of ethics, and some of them very fine and idealistic systems, which either repudiate religion, or, like Confucianism, treat it with a distant and somewhat ironical respect.

And when God acts in this way, these moments are associated with such joy that no one could possibly understand unless they've at some time committed wholeheartedly to an idealistic dream of making something happen, getting all embroiled and churned up by the process and then being released at the other end.