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"idealism" Definitions
  1. the belief that a perfect life, situation, etc. can be achieved, even when this is not very likely
  2. (philosophy) the belief that our ideas are the only things that are real and that we can know about compare materialism, realism

806 Sentences With "idealism"

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She's ultimately torn between courtly idealism with Arthur and another form of idealism, her romantic-erotic relationship with Lancelot.
Idealism is all well and good, but there's nothing about Tyrion's experiences of the world that would suggest that idealism has ever worked in his favor.
While Höfer's photo does not convey this history explicitly, its gorgeous blue light alludes to political idealism — the artist's lens aimed upward might symbolize progress and idealism.
I know Democrats want a president who shares their idealism, who will fight for their idealism, and has the hard skills and experience to actually get things done.
Six decades later, he wrote, that idealism had "hardly diminished."
But the show's idealism was decidedly white — and mostly male.
It also convinced him of the virtue of measured idealism.
And so there is some idealism with it as well.
Philosophically, liberalism is a kind of idealism, and concepts rule.
Their stuff is steeped in youth, idealism, and open community.
However, Goldhirsh also points out that "pragmatic idealism" is important.
She has never shifted, she believes, from that youthful idealism.
Now he was applying that idealism to his current campaign.
The Conservative Party is all about performance rather than idealism.
I like the companionship, candor, and idealism of younger men.
In other words, it's a clash between idealism and realism.
These are songs about the collapse of idealism above all.
For them, it was a convergence of idealism versus practicality.
"Idealism is more than just talking about it," he added.
Yet the imperfect idealism that animated protesters in Chicago endures.
So I don't know, that's the idealism and realism for me.
Waves imply creativity, while a single curve indicates idealism and curiosity.
Now is the time to put that idealism to the test.
Even then, real life probably didn't quite match the show's idealism.
It could be a burst of youthful idealism that fizzles out.
Zuckerberg also combined idealism with practicality to create the Facebook universe.
She believes in Daenerys' confidence, idealism and past acts of compassion.
Pragmatism, not idealism, has to be the hallmark of this board.
In some cases this rebellion was a matter of liberating idealism.
But ultimately, workers clashed culturally with Ford's American vision of idealism.
Find a balance between reality and idealism during this full moon.
And at close range, his stubborn idealism was no doubt maddening.
Saturday I saw people motivated by idealism and humbled by gratitude.
He inspires their idealism by telling them that life is hard.
And so there's going to be tension between pragmatism and idealism.
That idealism will surely get the better of him at times.
Their idealism has been an inspiration for me and many others.
"You're seeing this explosion of creativity, and also idealism," he said.
I think the world needs a combination of idealism and pragmatism.
Unlike Kamal, Walid was driven more by idealism than by desperation.
Hillary may not have MacKaye's magniloquence, but he shares his idealism.
Business folk are motivated by idealism, vanity and calculated self-interest.
In his youth, Ayman Odeh paid a price for his idealism.
Or, more specifically, the values that books represented: openness, idealism, growth.
The idealism that propelled Soto to Afghanistan was being scoured away.
Barack Obama is a classic case study in foreign policy idealism.
So no, it's not a great time for idealism and optimism.
And the large dose of apparent idealism that goes along with the Sanders campaign is also a big draw despite the fact that the experts wrote off youthful idealism as something that died in the early 1970s.
It's not a fight between young and fresh idealism and weary pragmatism.
There's this popular idea of a generation that had its idealism dashed.
During this month-long solar cycle, idealism is great, action is greater.
Don't let your idealism stand in the way of having positive friendships.
But the lasting effect of all the upheaval was not liberal idealism.
Thank you for maintaining that pragmatism and idealism are not mutually exclusive.
It's a classic battle between Silicon Valley idealism and Wall Street pragmatism.
Today the loss of that idealism seems as poignant as Marshall's failure.
But it's still Star Trek in its idealism, its humor, its adventure.
The youthful idealism remains, but the song, certainly, is not the same.
America and Europe face a choice – a choice between realism and idealism.
Instead, however, Obama's election enabled this self-defeating policy of Democratic idealism.
Democratic idealism attempts to shift this reality, rather than deal with it.
But why not end the Games with a dose of Tongan idealism?
Even then her '60s idealism was well tempered by a Niebuhrian realism.
These spirals, incrementally produced, differ from, say, a Platonic cube's transcendent idealism.
But here American idealism collided with the legacy of American anti-militarism.
It starts with abandoning the political idealism behind the Affordable Care Act.
But President Trump brought no idealism and found no rapturous crowds waiting.
" Let's not even open the keg of worms that is "sound idealism.
America is ready for idealism; we just need one more election cycle.
The novelty was burning off; the industry's pervasive idealism was increasingly dubious.
Increasingly, investors — especially millennials — are using their idealism to make a difference.
As you may know, Virgo is associated with organization, idealism, and healing.
In Liu's fictional universe, idealism is fatal and kindness an exorbitant luxury.
Then harassment accusations against the series star, Jeffrey Tambor, pierced the idealism.
And older generations need younger ones to reconnect them with their idealism.
The Democratic Party isn't just attracted to the resistance out of idealism.
"She is an unreconstructed idealist, an idealist without any irony about her idealism."
She arrived at Georgetown in the fall of 2010, full of freshman idealism.
The push-and-pull of pragmatism and idealism had a beneficial final result.
Trump has exploded Cuomo's idealism and exploits what people dislike about those ideals.
However, that pragmatism could work against the idealism of a candidate like Sanders.
The costs are too high, and idealism is not a defense against negligence.
If only Kenyan politicians and police had as much idealism as this book.
He's less invested in ideology than in attaining an air of profitable idealism.
Rigor and self-­righteousness often go in tandem, as do idealism and egotism.
The transition from idealism to reality was, ultimately, not quite what they'd expected.
Their idealism taught us to stand up, be loud; you will be heard.
How long before we start to call this the post-American idealism era?
We must become rational conservatives who are concerned with reason, idealism and practicality.
Saturday: Leaked audio of Clinton critiquing the idealism of Bernie Sanders's supporters circulates.
I would get the sense he found my idealism touching, if also naive.
You used to be realistic about this stuff before idealism got to you.
Each of them is an idealist at a moment when idealism seems appropriate.
This is a technical concern, but it seems to imply a broader idealism.
Its early days were defined by idealism and a "Don't be evil" motto.
Their memories unknowingly reflect Liberty Square's original idealism when it opened in 1937.
It seemed inseparable from the morality and idealism of the civil rights movement.
The social function of art is a hotly contested bit of liberal idealism.
No one knew better how fragile was the border between idealism and totalitarianism.
A positive attitude, Fowler emphasized, isn't the same as idealism or unbridled optimism.
But as it becomes ever clearer that it might be fatal for both Elwood and Turner to remain in Nickel, Turner begins to pick up an idealism of his own, an idealism just as strong and just as dangerous as Elwood's.
He underestimated the idealism of his first-time deputies, freshly recruited to En Marche!
You're taking big leaps based in idealism, so look out for your blind spots.
Unlike Sunday's air of idealism, we're more interested in getting down to brass tacks.
King Harrow's idealism and altruism evidently play a significant role in his own demise.
Still, the year was also filled with heroic work, determined idealism and historic successes.
Friendship and idealism will win the war, and some immortal demigoddess protects our freedom.
Beyoncé was about blowing up that idea of perfection, smashing that trophy of idealism.
It was filled with that '60s style of lofty, inspiring and self-important idealism.
Viewed this way, the battle was between rich people's idealism and poor people's selfishness.
"The revolution was always more about idealism than it was about ideology," he said.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act was birthed not just in idealism, but also blood.
Lesser acts with little of the original idealism—remember Does It Offend You Yeah?
And I certainly had my share of idealism about spreading democracy and good government.
They espouse a politics of unapologetic idealism, with a largely moderate, center-left orientation.
Idealism and sacrifice on all sides keeps the prices down and the work vibrant.
Separately, a young English woman's idealism took her to Syria, and to her death.
But their idealism may blind them to potential faults in the groups they support.
Its content was a hard rejection of American right-wing idealism, racism, and homophobia.
Let us not quash the idealism that is needed to make such major changes.
And the positive thinking of "Liberated" uses the superficial as a springboard to idealism.
" The Academy later took that to mean works of "a lofty and sound idealism.
It would be, as Sheri Berman writes in Dissent, enchanted with a radical idealism.
Winfried, a shaggy baby boomer, has had the luxury of conflating irresponsibility with idealism.
In times of anxiety and distrust, it's much easier to sell cynicism than idealism.
A system that begins in high idealism ends in corruption, dishonesty, oppression and distrust.
John Doar and Burke Marshall represent the practical idealism of the 1960s Justice Department.
To me Aaron's always been a filmmaker with a sense of justice and idealism.
The most successful try to reconcile their idealism with the need to pay the bills.
And for this, at the very least, we're indebted to her vision, idealism, and example.
The Democratic Party isn't just attracted to the idea of "the resistance" out of idealism.
Whenever I hear it, though, it reminds me of the blind idealism of that age.
As smart as Taurean and Libran people can be, they struggle to shake their idealism.
These albums came for me as the idealism of college made way for real life.
The concepts draw on the opposition between idealism and pragmatism that runs through politics everywhere.
His fierce idealism has proven to be catnip on the Wolverine State's huge college campuses.
I don't want to push back against the idealism—necessary, perhaps—of the boxing trainer.
Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) as DNC Chair demonstrates the deep-seated belief in this idealism.
Very possibly the guiding ideology is a desire for absolute power, rather than Marxist idealism.
"Strength in numbers," he said with very British common sense, so different from German idealism.
Behemoth shows that the idealism of the factory was not limited to the capitalist West.
"Are we experimenting with our child based on our idealism about public schools?" he asked.
He views the race as a contest between Clinton's experience and Sanders's novelty and idealism.
Because of their courage and daring and idealism, we will miss them all the more.
As voters have gravitated to Mr. Trump's unchecked impulsiveness and Mr. Sanders's unabashed idealism, Mrs.
But instead of skepticism, I coursed with idealism, and an almost stupid sense of commitment.
Jonathan Beaton told me that working for Sinclair had sapped his idealism about the profession.
STRANGERS DROWNING: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices and the Overpowering Urge to Help, by Larissa MacFarquhar.
They walk a line between hope and desperation, old-web idealism and self-help literature.
And she repeatedly had a go-to retort whenever he questioned her purity or idealism.
Instead, symbolism and idealism consume much of the representation of black bodies that we see.
Shorn even of its veneer of idealism, tolerance as an ideal will cease to inspire.
I still see that idealism and optimism a lot in many things we do today.
His friend Turner, a street-savvy orphan, thinks Elwood's idealism is misguided and hopelessly naïve.
It was at that time, he said, that he determined that realism should trump idealism.
It has become fashionable to denounce Wilson's idealism in the century since his crack-up.
His self-proclaimed "pragmatic idealism" is losing to the more strident progressivism of his opponents.
The era that Reece and Jennings write about represents an early heyday of American idealism.
Without their idealism and anger, the event would look like just another bureaucratic death march.
I want them to be stirred by the same idealism that once stirred my generation.
But younger generations need older ones to turn that idealism into more than pretty words.
That is exactly what will happen if idealism — and, in some cases, narcissism — clouds judgment.
Instead, realpolitik and the desire for stability are almost certain to trump any idealism about democracy.
By the lights of Silicon Valley's techno-idealism, Johnson is as mainstream as the Internet itself.
At times "Utopia" seems less an exemplar of idealism, and more of a satire on it.
For many voters, experience and competence are less important at the moment than honesty and idealism.
But, one after another, these prototypes collapsed along the same narrative parabola of idealism and disillusionment.
Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success": "It was an affront to my idealism.
But after decades of political maneuvering, they were also keeping their hopes and idealism on hold.
She's better because over her lifetime, Clinton has learned to temper her idealism without losing it.
Although the charismatic Lanier was VR's biggest champion, he's since backed away from that hippie idealism.
For artists who care about more than revenue, this situation casts a shadow over their idealism.
Ironically, one of the tasks for those who succeed the baby boomers is to restore idealism.
Mike: Honestly, this kind of idealism seems to jibe with my limited experience with security engineers.
That same idealism led the country into two world wars, Vietnam, Somalia, the Balkans and Iraq.
Others, like Ilya Bolotowsky, brought related European movements centering on non-objective abstraction and universal idealism.
They are admirable and awful, full of idealism and full of themselves, weird and entirely familiar.
If this combination of misplaced idealism and infantile Marxism ever gains an ascendancy, Labour is doomed.
She was a ball of energy, always smiling, full of new ideas, of idealism, of passion.
Many Muslims have long viewed America's vision of itself as hypocritical and its idealism as degraded.
But he held onto a dogged civic idealism that was divorced from hope of any kind.
Denes's reluctant humor makes most sense when understood as the flip side of her visionary idealism.
Don't give up your idealism, and try to find the best way to promote your ideas.
But over time it emerged that his policies differed from the pragmatic idealism of his rhetoric.
Until recently, I mistakenly associated deep yearnings and ambitions with the energy and idealism of youth.
Democrats used to love tech's innovation and idealism, and Republicans used to believe in leaving business alone.
He's sassy but not condescending, touched by her idealism but never mistaking it for naïveté. It's...wonderful.
The shine of idealism is gone, and Rasheed wants us to see what's left in its wake.
I think that having an element of radical idealism is really really important for running for president.
Both Democratic candidates arguably have that combination, although their opponents may question Clinton's idealism or Sanders' pragmatism.
Clinton's ads have focused on her record, while Mr. Sanders's have sought to convey optimism and idealism.
Until recently, I generally associated deep yearnings and high ambitions with the energy and idealism of youth.
But don't be shocked if (when) Zuckerberg's 6,000-word idealism coalesces into something a bit less pretty.
Well it's something that we've forgotten in our idealism about tech, except in the last few years.
"The Great War" also shows how the idealism of war can be used to crush populist movements.
Gone was the idealism of 21976s social movements, gone too were social aspirations within the stalled economy.
The idealism and the dedication stayed with the staff and got us through some really hard times.
No, today's Democrats have purged the voices for globalization, market economics, and the spread of liberal idealism.
Many of them are also misconstruing the politics of resentment and blame and seeing it as idealism.
We've seemingly made "changing the world" with our sparkling idealism, creativity and massive egos trendier than ever.
Our children, our brothers, our sisters, our mothers, our fathers will perish in a world of idealism.
The "idealism" he's referring to is a belief system of racialized hatred, divisiveness, and extreme white nationalism.
These images are from her work in progress exploring the idealism and romanticism that surrounds these places.
" This is precisely the kind of head-in-the-sand idealism targeted in "War of the Worlds.
The Sanders campaign has brought out a lot of idealism and energy that the progressive movement needs.
The whole shebang was given life by a highly improbable marriage between our narcissism and our idealism.
As a sort of mandarin parallel to punk, the movement disdained the idealism of previous avant-gardes.
The study warns that employers might find it difficult to realize this generation's idealism in the office.
Zuckerberg's idealism is belied by his desire to duck responsibility for mediating the content of his site.
But he left in his third year, disappointed that many of the other students lacked his idealism.
She met with incoming Democrats on Tuesday, acknowledging their "idealism, integrity and imagination" but warning against intransigence.
That was more than likely to foster a clash between Silicon Valley idealism and Wall Street pragmatism.
It makes alienation seem to spring from unreasonable idealism, from overreaction to the harmless vulgarity of plenty.
He never quite loses his idealism; in a crass political era, he impressively avoids becoming a cynic.
Will those young voters — and others fired up by Sanders's idealism — rally to Biden's side come November?
That does a lot to destroy the idealism of young people that usually pushes them to act.
Without any histrionics or posturing, Varma nails the character's blend of idealism and realpolitik, compassion and trepidation.
Yet the change-the-world idealism, once a hallmark of the internet giants, is alive and well.
This is tough turf for a reporter to cover because idealism is out and cynicism is in.
He can discern a shimmering thread of idealism in the Yugoslav experiment, buried amid a stolid reality.
Both Mayor LaGuardia and Governor Lehman found their boilerplate addresses about American idealism greeted with fascist salutes.
What seems to have truly united all these organizational struggles was their collectivist spirit and political idealism.
Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, for instance, had rocky opening weeks as their campaign idealism encountered Washington reality.
The resulting mind-set, disdainful of idealism and suspicious of ego, is one we are now, evidently, exporting.
But then he began gaining more and more support, particularly from young people -- precisely because of his idealism.
That's the other part of this that can be very frustrating, because it's the idealism of the young.
If there's a dark side to the film's idealism, it's General Magic's lionization of punishing development crunch times.
Perhaps it's a bit of idealism to think these tech giants will permit Jumbo to run as intended.
Obama also said that his idealism is just as strong as when he entered office eight years ago.
But we don't like to keep ourselves in some sort of box or some sort of concrete idealism.
Its legacy remains as a statement of the idealism expressed by advocates for peace in the interwar period.
In Neronian America, such undeceived realism seems more modern than the idealism of so many Romantic-era operas.
But Facebook's purported idealism is its center of gravity, the thesis around which the company's other arguments revolve.
There was a time when arguments between centrists and progressives were framed as debates between realism and idealism.
I admired his courage and idealism; his bluntness and willingness to tell hard truths, even to friendly audiences.
Whittaker said Walmart's actions on guns — and socially conscious moves like it — weren't the result of pure idealism.
I think that far from being traitorous, the idealism of Mr. Lindh is deep in the American grain.
Captain America's obvious devotion to Bucky is one of his two defining characteristics (the other is brooding idealism).
Mancuso came with the progressive idealism of the civil rights era and of events like the Stonewall riots.
Their apolitical navel-gazing is unlikely to curry favour with academics looking to hip hop for social idealism.
While I was pursuing my idealism in Iraq, Kostya's career took a new tack altogether during this period.
But the moment showed what Patrick has to offer—eloquence and idealism in the service of modest goals.
The idealism was infectious, and many people turned down higher salaries from other companies to work for Etsy.
I don't know; there are plenty of people on the business side … This is your idealism coming out.
This book ought to be studied by national Democrats looking to rescue populist idealism from its Trumpian captivity.
Sometimes, American idealism is in the right place; often it serves as window dressing for baser national designs.
Today, Woodstock plays as both terrific concert documentary and a sobering object lesson about the limits of idealism.
The conservative nationalism that succeeded Bush's idealism often treats Christianity instrumentally and forges its own alliances with persecutors.
He brought a boatful of idealism and was greeted by more than one million people thronging the streets.
My idealism was shattered by a brief flurry of bombs that left my confidence shattered and morality discarded.
There was idealism involved: Caesar was turning the Roman republic into a dictatorship and making himself a king.
The small hearts and guilty souls of this world will do everything they can to undermine your idealism.
The current revival of socialist ideology in America is based on a mixture of idealism, cynicism and ignorance.
But there's always been a strong streak of idealism in the company, and you still see it today.
Do you still feel like Silicon Valley has retained that idealism that struck you when you arrived here?
This isn't just a matter of high-minded idealism; it's what separates great politicians from merely good ones.
It wasn't that one represented tough-guy realism and the other some sort of pretend good-government idealism.
Still, an even stronger documentary might have probed whether her idealism and political convictions ever come into conflict.
In horror movies, where social comforts are upended for maximum disturbance, this idealism curdles into (often literal) demonization.
Another period slogan, "Be realistic: Ask for the impossible," now sounds like a piece of vintage, youthful idealism.
Commentators note that it's more of a pragmatism than an idealism that inspires Gen Z to do so.
His tunes place urgency and nostalgia in contact, as if they were two equally valid strands of idealism.
We revelled in the swashbuckling idealism of Captain James Tiberius Kirk and the cool rationalism of Mr. Spock.
The speech's most riveting segment comes when Clinton tries to address the apparent clash between idealism and reality.
Having arrived at Princeton wide-eyed, straight from Mount St. Mary's College in Maryland, Simmons, within a few years, appeared to some of his classmates to have lost some of his idealism about academia; maybe he exhibited his idealism about science in a way that could be mistaken for cynicism.
But I do wonder how long his youthful idealism will last, amid the greatest financial experiment in Indian history.
In an interview with NPR, Sandberg blamed the company's failures to protect the privacy of its users on idealism.
"Prosperity as a purpose means taking your idealism and making it concrete by certain acts of goodness," he said.
What the Labour world and realism are to Mr Simon, the business world and idealism are to Mr Street.
One of the things I would say is, squash your idealism for a minute and take the cynic's view.
Such idealism lives beside the reality of a society that's largely digitally illiterate, where consent is not fully understood.
So should we condemn FDR for his cynicism, or say that idealism with no possibility of results isn't helpful?
But their idealism was coshed by the dotcom crash of 2000-01, which forced them to turn a profit.
He escapes, idealism shattered, by taking an unspecified job in "culture" and throwing himself into Munich's punk-era nightlife.
It captures the glowing idealism of an era when the EU was run by people who remembered the war.
Clinton was just never their first choice, so I think they understand the idealism of a third-party vote.
This narrow time frame allows for the exhibition to linger on the idealism and ethos of the community's planners.
"Senator Harris's plan balances idealism and pragmatism," says former Obama Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services administrator Andy Slavitt.
The story revolves around the political idealism of T'Challa and the political radicalism of his cousin Erik "Killmonger" Stevens.
That doesn't mean airbrushed idealism: Rose has always been careful to showcase what her real, actual body looks like.
Memes like Pepe, Anglin writes, "embody the goal of couching idealism within irony" so that it can spread subtly.
Pentagon Black's mission is to reconcile the idealism of music creation with the unforgiving economics that typify the business.
A number of Democrats are fuming over pie-in-the-sky liberals who they say prized idealism over pragmatism.
Brutus was motivated by idealism, believing that Caesar was a would-be dictator who would destroy the Roman Republic.
He knew how to deal with radical idealism, and was familiar with their methods to organize into larger ranks.
You can point to a clash between New York cynicism and West Coast idealism, but there is a history.
Third, our institutions must serve as laboratories for collaboration to create sustainable futures that balance idealism with financial realities.
There was idealism, too, and so many pro-Trump opinions were the fruit of powerful and legitimate life experiences.
It's an idealism that I no longer think exists today, and is very much a product of that time.
He felt that his own youth, idealism, and imagination were being lowered into the earth along with his friend.
Instead, Emily is sent out into the field, where she can put her empathy and idealism to better use.
But all of this idealism about a new category of drone is useless if it doesn't take good photographs.
Even without reference to democracy and architectural idealism, Havsteen-Mikkelsen's work is symbolic of another general concern: climate change.
There is also the romantic model, who channels lust into romantic idealism, aggression into artistic ambition or religious purpose.
Here's another example of architectural and symmetrical idealism, with all different parts of the hallway looking exactly the same.
"Idealism is very important in Sweden," said Katarina Tracz, director of the Stockholm Free World Forum, a research center.
We need rekindle the spark of idealism and change we may have inherited from our latter-day hippie parents.
" She believed, Ms. Cooney said, "in the human power of idealism, simply and unsentimentally; everything she wrote reflected this.
But Blauner's fable seems truer to its emotional beats, Natty and Lourdes powerfully real in their lucid, disillusioned idealism.
"Training Day" starts off building tension between idealism and security, but it ends up in the tank for Frank.
" Newsom, faced with charges about backtracking on his single-payer promise, said last year "I haven't lost my idealism.
At its heart, the debate is one between pragmatism and idealism, working within the system versus burning it down.
Dalio is far from the only business leader who believes that success requires a mix of idealism and practicality.
Any attempt by the establishment to suppress the youthful idealism of Thailand's new voters could be a dangerous miscalculation.
The same combination of idealism and levity marked his two collections of essays, "Inside Dance" (1980) and "On Dance" (1992).
Subverting the classical idealism of Chinese landscape painting, Ji works as a storyteller who navigates the contemporary realities of survival.
Come 1970, the counterculture's surge of idealism and optimism had rolled back and left its proponents cold, anxious and confused.
" Perfect proof of Cummings' idealism is found in his 237-page manifesto entitled "Some thoughts on education and political priorities.
"The Syphilis of Sisyphus" (143) gives voice to a 19th-century pregnant Parisian woman, who disparages the idealism of modernity.
As a first-time attendee, I'll admit that it's hard not to get swept up in the idealism of TED.
Despite the best of intentions, our expectations have been unrealistic — and Silicon Valley has started to recognize its own idealism.
But fewer still will fail to empathise with her experiences of desire, idealism and disillusionment, so powerfully are they rendered.
The party has all but locked up the youth vote with a combination of anti-austerity politics and vague idealism.
This is dark material, but Mr Benjamin himself, now 58, retains a youthful idealism in his approach to his art.
Fired by a mixture of technological zeal, idealism and the profit motive, such firms are competing for the unbanked dollar.
His aim was to end the Crusades, an act of idealism that fellow Christians feared would end in Francis' death.
The guys manage to stay true to the idealism and wholesomeness they were known for back in their Disney day.
And Congress has chosen idealism in its refusal to allocate money for building a border wall along our southern border.
The game ends with red ink splattered and a hundred imagined girls slaughtered, amid the ruins of a mother's idealism.
Lately, I worry that this election may be pushing him toward pragmatism over the idealism that America represents to me.
He was the idealistic candidate, but idealism is largely a function of privilege, expressed by people who can afford it.
Whether Zenger was moved by profit, idealism or something else is unknown, as is almost everything else about the man.
Kurtz-Phelan's detailed account of the diplomatic mission's failure reads like a parable of America's evangelizing idealism and paternalistic hubris.
Constructed as an idealistic society for a hand picked group of scientists, artists and industrialists, the idealism is no more.
Employees also often push their leaders to live up to the change-the-world idealism they believe their companies represent.
Mr. Faso predicted that the race would come down to some basic choices between liberal and conservative, idealism and experience.
To the Editor: It's heartening to see the energy, enthusiasm and idealism of our young people on full-throated display.
So he veered from the high seriousness and idealism of his diplomacy to the self-defeating nakedness of his ambition.
Especially when "Smashed" shows you how the center cannot hold, it demonstrates how much skill, idealism and harmony still achieve.
However, his idealism smacks of a disregard of the failures of the last draft, brought on by the Vietnam conflict.
Alas, idealism is now a recessive gene in me after so many crushed hopes and covering one-too-many massacres.
" But at the same time, when she wouldn't speak up for idealism, Obama would ask her: "Are you sick, Power?
With their perpetual youth, innocence, hope and idealism, they instruct me to believe that the world can actually be changed.
Her longtime girlfriend Sophie (Rosanny Zayas) produces Alice's show, matching her boss' idealism and effervescence every step of the way.
Where there had been idealism and mettle a decade ago, there is now a breezy acceptance of the status quo.
Both sets of e-mails show the idealism and the inclusiveness that are the true drivers of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Few bands so embodied the idealism and hedonism of the late '21966s music scene in San Francisco as Jefferson Airplane.
A year after 10 formerly Communist eastern European countries joined the European Union, the Continent was still rife with idealism.
Idealism and utopian visions of the world may make for great speeches, but they rarely make for coherent foreign policy.
The ugliness of this campaign stripped us of our idealism and forced us to confront a reality of bigotry and sexism.
" In a postmodern, post-ironic culture, he argues, "absolute idealism must be couched in irony in order to be taken seriously.
And with some exceptions, it is perfectly legal to serve in foreign militaries, whether one is motivated by idealism or money.
What connected my father's idealism to my mother's pragmatism was the drive to make a life for ourselves in this country.
They rarely see eye-to-eye, but "Halt and Catch Fire" highlights their shared idealism and ambition to define the future.
Sanders and I disagree on some issues but we agree on more than we don't and I absolutely share his idealism.
He is a fierce advocate of non-violent struggle driven by idealism and a vision for a free and democratic Ethiopia.
Given that this is Bit Byterz's first game, many of the guiding factors behind Memoranda revolve around pragmatism rather than idealism.
I'm reflecting back what's inside of them, which is just a lot of goodness and a lot of heart and idealism.
In fact, amid the demagoguery and vulgarity of the presidential race, Trudeau personifies something entirely different: youth, idealism, warmth and hope.
Every tech platform was founded in idealism, some of which got lost in the gold rush but much of which remains.
They're all written exactly like men, with all the "wouldn't-it-be-great-if" idealism that sci-fi allows its authors.
In places it reads as if the miseries of the euro zone stem from sinister corporate forces and not misplaced idealism.
Take time today to reflect on your fantasies about your relationships—too much idealism won't work for you at this time.
A rule of thumb in internal feminist debates is that everyone seems to have a claim to both idealism and realism.
Hershey, Pennsylvania, retains the same idealism that Milton Hershey imbued in it when he founded his namesake empire there in 233.
Passionate Bernie supporters and third party voters have also been targeted for their idealism and are frequently ridiculed by Clinton surrogates.
Hershey, Pennsylvania, retains the same idealism that Milton Hershey imbued in it when he founded his namesake empire there in 153.
The answer may come down to a resilient compound, in élite culture, of Platonic idealism and run-of-the-mill snobbery.
" As it was once said, "Today, the Democratic Party does not ask young people for their idealism — only for their price.
I hope that we learn to constantly center the ideal at that core of the current offense: enlightenment, equality and idealism.
Remember Pisces' idealism and creativity during discussions, too: When conversation turns to work, don't try to impress them with fancy titles.
I had gotten out of college filled with idealism and absolutely certain that somehow I was going to change the world.
Venus is challenged by your planetary ruler Saturn on Thursday, providing a sobering realism to Venus in Libra's rose-tinted idealism.
In her diagnosis of the country's problems, Clinton falls on the wrong side of a growing rupture between idealism and materialism.
However, rather than adopting the idealism characteristic of traditional scroll painting, Ji presents the gritty reality of contemporary life in China.
The looming showdown reflects the difficulty in turning campaign idealism into policy, particularly in a tax-weary state like New Jersey.
Is it idealism that leads Chuck to this decision, which his wife and father will not understand if they find out?
How does pragmatism and idealism play into both having attended Stanford and having had a pre-novelist career in Silicon Valley?
She's nicely acerbic and flinty as Rosemary, with a wide-eyed idealism that becomes increasingly desperate as the episode goes on.
He had brought with him from Russia a burning idealism about the new art, and what it could do for society.
You'll like it if you: Would enjoy a refreshingly sober take on the Kennedys, without airy evocations of idealism and tragedy.
News Analysis WASHINGTON — President Trump has long viewed foreign policy as a series of business deals, stripped of values and idealism.
Sex is an impediment to any idealism, which is why the post-Weinstein era will be an era of gender pessimism.
Kubitschek, however, presents his views with a disarming, Teutonic idealism that recalls a Germany that long preceded the rise of Hitler.
Discovering her intelligence, he gives her books to read, in the kind of gesture of easy, self-congratulatory idealism Kushner demolishes.
Idealism untempered by an understanding of the complex interplay of forces inside a country ends up in this sort of mess.
But in Spree, she's stuck playing the same game as Kurt — any genuine idealism is quickly captured, repackaged, and posted online.
This series of missteps undermined her carefully cultivated image as an accidental senator animated by idealism instead of crass political considerations.
He has reasserted the European idea and raised the possibility that France and Germany will conjure a revival of European idealism.
It's implied that his service in World War II may have robbed him of any youthful idealism, or even general lustiness.
Accused of prioritizing idealism over a political agenda, Occupy actually had priorities, like a financial transactions tax and campaign finance reform.
Likewise, Roberts' utopian van is chimerical, a vision of a queerness that's elusive and caught in the undertow of hippie idealism.
And the energy and the idealism is on the far left, and the money and the practicality is more toward the center.
There's a rising sentiment in from tech and finance experts that, for all the idealism, Watson just can't deliver on its promises.
They had lost their sense of idealism and enthusiasm and they were cynical and suspicious of anyone who could feel those things.
Cocooned in wealth and privilege, the sisters dreamed noble dreams but were buoyed by naïveté and sometimes led astray by bourgeois idealism.
If there is any echo of Sun's idealism, it is in the student "Sunflower Movement", which wants to keep China at bay.
But music, Tala shows, can be a powerful tool for amplifying the idealism of young people who are eager to affect change.
Mr Obama was more of a Wilsonian than a neo-Wilsonian; his idealism tempered by a cool realism that verged on cynicism.
This ensures that people have a sense of mission, even if some of the firm's peppy idealism sounds naive to jaded journalists.
Mexican multimedia artist Francisco Toledo, who is around the same age as Pellicer, offers another poignant example of this same veiled idealism.
Labour can always rely on being the party of idealism: even if we make a mess of things, we have pure intentions.
Clinton, and described the choice in the Democratic contest as between pie-in-the-sky idealism and a realistic expectation of progress.
Despite this, Silicon Valley tech companies have shown a willingness to put aside their idealism — or rationalize their decisions to court Beijing.
Fifteen books and a quarter of a century later, Mr Rushkoff's view of the digital revolution has lost none of its idealism.
But I also understand that Bendis might be trying to depict Morales's idealism and refusal to believe that any of that matters.
He also admitted that accomplishing those reforms is harder than the idealism that put him on the national political map might suggest.
It profoundly affected the evolution of American foreign policy from harnessing American idealism toward policies inconsistent with Russian dignity and nationalistic passion.
After spending 70 years frozen in the Arctic, Cap returned to a very different world with the idealism of a different era.
But, in American politics, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. found traction among peers with his theory of a repeating cycle of idealism and pragmatism.
"He had America's fighting spirit, our noble idealism, our solemn patriotism, and our slightly irreverent streak — all rolled into one," he added.
Obama sought to remain neutral, even if some of his remarks were interpreted as favoring Clinton's pragmatism over Sanders's more sweeping idealism.
" The president poked fun at himself and his age: "Eight years ago I was a young man, full of idealism and vigor.
Take my word for it, after 18-plus years, whatever idealism might once have been in the Army has almost completely evaporated.
There are few movies that speak to the American moment as movingly — and with as much idealism — as "Loving," our critic says.
Manchester could have been a loss of innocence, but through Ariana, it became a coming of age, a redoubling of her idealism.
The companies were driven less by idealism than by intense competition, and a bet that they could create more environmentally friendly alternatives.
It was just before the first World War, the Bloomsbury set was coming about and there was a romantic idealism about England.
Rightly so: Heady idealism untempered by realism can be as destructive in its consequences as a cold realism unmoved by humane sympathies.
How is their optimism different from the kind of optimism or idealism you had as a teenager giving speeches about the Constitution?
And then there is the gentleman, whose persona seeks to balance self-control with idealism, politesse with passion, holding all in synthesis.
Niemeyer's idealism — his belief that architecture could create a world that was post-race and post-class — was naïve, perhaps, but understandable.
Their political lives, mirroring the A.N.C.'s post-apartheid trajectory, began with youthful idealism, followed by lost innocence and, ultimately, fratricidal violence.
I was wary of politics, but I was so moved by Leopoldo's idealism and love for our country that I said yes.
He's built his brand on a decade of teaching fans to live out the progressive idealism they learned from their favorite stories.
Even if we ended up intensely disagreeing about politics, her angry idealism and devotion to creating a more just world was infectious.
The result is that most students abandon the idealism of their admissions essays when they type up their résumés as graduation approaches.
These principles and policies are the starting points to steer the development of technology markets back toward the idealism of earlier days.
Hopper didn't paint loneliness; he depicted disillusionment with an idealism that was falling apart right at the moment it seemed most promising.
He says things the people want to hear, but retains his idealism — a remarkable combination of traits that makes him very popular.
Initially, the company tried to hold on to some vestiges of its founding idealism, by paying more progressive wages, among other things.
He said her idealism shone through in the job interview, and she asked a lot of questions about Graham and his work.
Veterans came to feel that the idealism of the cause had been exploited, and many resented being policed by shadowy Communist enforcers.
I think we have a duty not to abandon any of our idealism but to be as pragmatic as the extremists are.
In an atmosphere of domestic crisis, many Americans found their idealism renewed by George Kennan's campaign to liberate Russia from autocratic rule.
The profound bungling and cynicism and deception behind those decisions is elided, practically ignored, eclipsed by Bush's present-moment sincerity and idealism.
Washington embraced a vision for an open America that could almost be read today as a form of deep idealism or altruism.
His 310-page serial poem is about the poet, the poem, and poetry, without a trace of nostalgia or sappy romantic idealism.
Despite this, Silicon Valley tech companies have shown a willingness to put aside their idealism or rationalize their decisions to court Beijing.
"He had America's fighting spirit, our noble idealism, our solemn patriotism, and our slightly irreverent streak — all rolled into one," McConnell said.
The golly-gee idealism of Dave Franco's Sestero makes him a perfect audience surrogate, and a wonderful foil for the brooding, vampiric Wiseau.
But if there's one shoe I'm excited to see drop, it's the one hanging over Paige's commitment to the cause and her idealism.
The tense idealism that unites them in their desire to bomb a damn evaporates like mist in the sunlight when things go wrong.
Tesla's founder, Elon Musk, is as famous for wanting to colonize Mars as he is for his ambitious production schedule and boundless idealism.
By the time the building opened in 1976, Britain's national mood was far removed from the utopian idealism that had kick-started it.
"I had previously worn a princess-style ball gown, which in hindsight, perfectly described my idealism when it came to marriage," she said.
He said black voters would embrace her as a practical fighter for issues they care about, rather than rallying to Mr. Sanders's idealism.
Mary Wollstonecraft went to Paris in a spirit of democratic idealism to report on the French revolution, but was traumatised by the Terror.
In the end, quashing the frag problem might be a painful process because fragmentation is a direct result of Android's open-source idealism.
If taken in terms of scope, sweep, and political idealism, Oakley's 43 Harrisburg murals compare favorably to those of her contemporary, Diego Rivera.
If his childhood instilled King's belief in a loving God, Niebuhr's work tempered his idealism and contributed to his strategy of mass mobilisation.
I told you at the end of the 2012 campaign that you gave me the greatest gift because you helped renew my idealism.
Over the next three years, Mr Zhao enters university, joins the student union propaganda unit, finds a girlfriend and gradually loses his idealism.
The duo wants to infuse the idealism at the heart of this vision with a darkness that acknowledges the degradation of our environment.
As Declan Walsh reports for the Times: Many Muslims have long viewed America's vision of itself as hypocritical and its idealism as degraded.
He brings the kind of forward-looking, pragmatic idealism we need to confront these issues and deal with them – while we still can.
The companies have meanwhile disclosed new details about the extent of Russia-based material, raising alarms about a sector that once inspired idealism.
After the arrest of Smiles and company, more criminal gangs began to see drugs as easy money rather than being motivated by idealism.
In this telling, not only does realism replace idealism, but Israel's calculus embraces the here and now rather than a gauzy aspirational future.
Barbara Kruger's rueful mural, "Untitled (Blind Idealism is …)," appears on a wall facing west and overlooking the High Line at West 22nd Street.
At times, the conversation ascended to the same level of idealism that left so many hankering for real talk in the first place.
But as Rauchway writes, FDR's social justice idealism fell by the wayside as the president had to compromise to get things done quickly.
Any idealism I might have had about making changes for the good in Russia was dampened by the parliamentary elections of December 2003.
But it does require a return to the pragmatic idealism — to "lifting everyone up" — that once made Wisconsin a model for the country.
Hochschild's book shows us what a radical movement looked like from the inside, with all of its high-flown idealism and personal intrigues.
Critics groused that these new films had strayed from the innate optimism and humanitarian idealism of Gene Roddenberry's original vision for the series.
It's broad-strokes idealism, soft at the center and deliberately unspecific, but what saves it is Mr. Elling's voice: bright, devout and earnest.
The place where I still found abundant idealism was in Strasbourg, France, on the border with Germany, where people did remember that history.
Much of this is the hangover from Iraq, just as a previous generation's disenchantment with foreign-policy idealism was a hangover from Vietnam.
It's another fascinating sign that the "isms" of the 20th century have been stripped of idealism in favor of raw power and networking.
"Underground" hints at a kind of qualified idealism, suggesting that Mendax and his comrades mostly shunned theft and vandalism in favor of disclosure.
Idealism, cynicism, these are not opposites — it just depends on whether the sentimental idiot in question is in a good or bad mood.
Starry-eyed at the beginning, he learns to temper his idealism, but in a crass political era, he impressively avoids becoming a cynic.
It's proof that the idealism that stormed Normandy, fed Europe, democratized Japan, and kept West Berlin free belongs to an increasingly remote past.
America's foreign policy has changed from big-picture idealism of the 1990s to managing conflict, minimizing U.S. casualties and focusing on pinpoint precision.
Clinton struggles as she campaigns on more of the same, which is less encouraging to progressives, who mobilize off of inspiration and idealism.
She finds much to admire in his ambition and idealism, yet freely admits that the ultimate scorecard doesn't come out in his favor.
The historic segments mesh with a parallel plot, a fictional indie film shoot that can seem like ironic commentary on the show's idealism.
That same mix of ambition and idealism forced Mr. Neumann to step down as chief executive after a lengthy board meeting on Tuesday.
You don't get the laid-bare feeling of Schubert, Beethoven's idealism, Liszt's philosophical questing, or Schumann's palpitating, specific love for his wife, Clara.
It's not idealism in the air around our leadership or any kind of desire (greed excepted); it's a lack, a void, a deficit.
They make this a ballet about ballet itself — ballet as a language of harmonious idealism, in which radiant physical geometry keeps marrying music.
The face Mr. Giuliani sees in the mirror, he has always said, is of a man compelled by his idealism to purify government.
In our current political climate, many people have a hunger for stories of perseverance and idealism enacted during a period of political repression.
The last 10 days in Virginia have thrown all of that into disarray — and demonstrated that political power will always trump political idealism.
They muted some of the most divisive social issues, compromised on others, and mashed together idealism with business-friendly ideas for economic growth.
But, for the sake of idealism, let's wait until Geri (Halliwell) Horner and Emma Bunton chime in before we jump to any dire conclusions.
" The key achievement of middle age, according to Jaques, is to move beyond youthful idealism to what he called "contemplative pessimism" and "constructive resignation.
American foreign policy, which so often suffers from the conflict between ideals and practical considerations, has found here a merger of idealism and action.
Andy Slavitt, the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, praised Harris's plan for "balancing idealism and pragmatism," the campaign said.
The idea is to create a system that will feed the soil and the people equally, and the Chesters approach this challenge with idealism.
Amid the swirl of idealism and support for Musk and his vision, it's easy to forget the present-day problems the company is facing.
But was he looking at a model of entrepreneur or idealism from Silicon Valley when he was creating this, or was this much different?
The group's mixture of self-promotion and idealism led it to present new music in retirement homes, in prisons or at rural gas stations.
In this respect you can hardly do better than Bouguereau and the values imbedded in his art — idealism, whiteness, an effete notion of taste.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg still mentions in interviews the sense of "idealism" the company had of building an unprecedented global community 10 years ago.
The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism continues at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (151 3rd St, San Francisco) through April 28.
Greater in scope, cost, and idealism than any earlier program of urban revitalization, they also required a much larger role for the federal government.
But it's the moral consequences of the characters' actions that bear down on the film most heavily, the human folly that perverts their idealism.
His liberal idealism (he is pretty unfussed about immigration, for example) does not chime with the small-c conservative voters on whom Out relies.
It's as fine a piece of hypocrisy clothed in "journalistic idealism" as you'll ever see, and something that the Times will come to regret.
It may sometimes sound like idealism, especially when Sanders dresses up phrases like "income inequality" to sound as profound as helping the truly poor.
But once Obama took office and gridlock in Congress persisted, tough political realities settled in and for many, the idealism surrounding Obama's presidency evaporated.
" And Jeezy, whose lyrics are both reminiscent of the idealism of 2008 and the disappointment that followed, still maintains that Obama "gave us hope.
We don't think it's really possible to improve on Alicia Silverstone's naive idealism, but they manage to put their own spin on the proceedings.
The road from imperfect capitalism to socialist idealism is soaked with the blood of those who failed to appreciate the fairness of economic equality.
Though tech companies have been taking their knocks lately, even the ones now under the most scrutiny were launched in a glow of idealism.
It's widely considered the apex of the idealism of the 299s, followed by the queasy hangover of Altamont and the final disillusionment of Watergate.
The Kingpin's overscaled rage and narcissism gave the story energy, and the contrast with Daredevil's problematic idealism was fertile ground for comic-book melodrama.
It's only because she lost that so many Democrats—including incrementalists who previously favored political realism over policy idealism—see virtue in Sanders's messaging.
But even if they appreciate the idealism of this exchange, they're making no ironclad commitment to actually trade on it or participate in IPOs.
His idealism and bravery shone through after he returned to Vietnam in 21982 as a civilian pacification officer for the Agency for International Development.
Smuts was a complex man whose mix of visionary idealism, cool realpolitik and segregationist sympathies have led many to dismiss him as a hypocrite.
So much analysis of the Democratic presidential hopefuls characterizes them in ideological terms: left versus center, idealism or pragmatism, the revolutionaries and the incrementalists.
Since the late 19th century, young people, filled with idealism, have led movements for social change to stop wars, government corruption and especially discrimination.
Though they have often been spoken of as one progressive bloc, the challengers differ — sometimes significantly — on their particular blends of idealism and pragmatism.
With deep historical knowledge and nimble storytelling techniques, Mr. Pollard explores how idealism, horrific brutality and artistic genius converged in a single historical moment.
Indeed, for all their idealism about fighting alongside Americans, the racial reality quickly became a source of profound disappointment and disillusionment with American power.
Above all, it is pragmatic, its idealism tempered not by timidity or cupidity or corporate fealty but by a respect for its own limits.
Even in the start-up world, where idealism is abundant and losses are a badge of honor, Mr. Son's approach and ambition stood out.
Trump's plan abandons the naïve idealism that America can or should remake foreign countries into pluralistic, inclusive market-oriented democracies, by force if necessary.
It's the idealism behind the striving that matters, not the cynicism that comes up with all kinds of ornate excuses for apathy or inaction.
This was an unknown issue back then, and passers-by smiled at the students' idealism but told them they'd never change the food industry.
I think of my campaign as having fresh idealism, the optimism of spring or that really wonderful rejuvenating light green color of young plants.
That opposition — toxic hate and toxic idealism — is paralleled in the background, in the fictional, quasi-autocratic presidencies of Richard Nixon and Robert Redford.
It probably won't, but this is ... They're all businessmen and they always have been and the idealism has been marketing and smoke and mirrors.
The dual aspect of the works that conjoin Hindu idealism with modern sexual potency becomes more complex in paintings by Laxma Goud and Sunil Das.
But at some point, such idealism gives way to discussions about measures like ARPU (average revenue per user), especially when you have venture capital investors.
She doesn't have the sparkle and charm of Pride and Prejudice's Lizzie Bennet or Emma's Emma Woodhouse, or the tragicomic idealism of Middlemarch's Dorothea Brooke.
In many ways, Dose Your Dreams is a rather tender and gentle record, encouraging people to pursue their idealism, no matter how foolish or impractical.
This is especially so as the sun gently connects with Neptune, the planet of dreams, on the same day, coloring social interactions with rosy idealism.
But the forward-looking idealism of the Enlightenment did not banish the senseless barbarism of civil war so much as create new conditions for violence.
Of the GOP candidates, even if you give Ted Cruz credit for his own strain of idealism, he is the least pragmatic member of Congress.
Why it matters: Bloomberg would be a voice of more moderate practicality in a field where the early campaigning has been dominated by leftish idealism.
But the version they're seeking now is grounded less on optimistic idealism, and more on something harder and angrier: sheer strength and force of will.
Idealism and the desire to leave behind a lasting mark should not blind the outgoing president to the real dangers Russia poses to European security.
To me, it was being able to sort of bring that much progressive idealism to the table, because he garnered so much energy from it.
Famously touted as horror maven Christopher Lee's favorite film he worked on, The Wicker Man is a surreal treatise on utopian idealism gone terribly wrong.
The idea is to bring together the idealism and bottom-up approach of the Dutch anarchists and the technological advances of the Chinese mega-firms.
The daughter of a diplomat, she was raised mostly in Scotland, the second-eldest of five siblings, among whom "aggressive idealism" was a common trait.
Those who knew her remembered her fondly for her sharp, irreverent tongue and for her dark humor, which was mixed with an almost childlike idealism.
Slumped under a heavy fog of malaise, the singer-guitarists Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley caution against soul-draining jobs, suffocating relationships and counterproductive idealism.
Democrats will get a chance to sound off with their votes on the question of idealism versus pragmatism that undergirds so much of this debate.
Curry captures this sense of intimacy masterfully in the film by exposing both Le Guin's light-hearted humor and her more serious, high-minded idealism.
As I've gotten older, I've seen that sense of youth and idealism, doing it for the love, transition into doing it for yourself and yours.
As first lady she worked for universal health care; when her idealism hit Washington reality she persisted, helping to gain health care coverage for children.
David Axelrod, the political strategist, has said that today's central political battle is cynicism versus idealism, and it's clear which side the students are on.
Mr. Weber recalled that he appreciated the president's use of the word "idealism" — he hadn't said "extremism" or "partisanship," though that was what he meant.
But I'm hard pressed to consider that a flaw instead of a strength, especially when grim idealism is so much a part of Hurley's brand.
But the show's idealism was unrealistic — and that's a problem, because it set viewers up for disappointment with the much messier reality of US politics.
It generates its idealism and solidarity instead through the trust and bonds of friendship that come from doing big hard things together in the community.
The corporations that run it get a little bigger, their power grows more concentrated, and a bit of their idealism gives way to ruthless pragmatism.
"In every generation, there are those who put country first, who prize service ahead of self, who summon idealism from a cynical age," Pence added.
Yet 48 years after her graduation, her words about the idealism of a student starting college and determined to change the world seem more significant.
Believing in the American dream requires a certain suspension of critical thinking, and cheering for the Oakland A's activates that same innate sense of idealism.
This view is reflected on the streets of Taipei, Taiwan's largest city, where some young people speak openly about the need for pragmatism over idealism.
His fire for justice," he added, "and his demonstration of the ways in which you can and must combine idealism and pragmatism to achieve it.
"While we believe in the idealism of young people, it is important also for them to consider the experience of the old people," Mahathir said.
Here, he captures both the angry idealism and the ingenious daring of Mr. Rzewski's "Which Side Are You On?" in a teeming, and beautiful, performance.
Lewis's parents had divorced when he was two, and his mother, in a fit of idealism, had decided to involve herself in the Communist project.
If a skill-based policy could become part of a compassionate immigration policy, that would be both rational and in keeping with America's moral idealism.
By furnishing these models, they help to create a sense of aspirationalism and idealism or, alternatively, fears that can be addressed through the consumer marketplace.
Attending official celebrations and a citizenship ceremony in Canberra, Morrison said it is idealism and enlightenment, not cruelty and dispossession that have prevailed in the country.
MONTEREY, California — What happens when you mix the online snark and idealism of podcast-listening teens and the DGAF attitude of an 88-year-old lefty?
The tension between a ruthless industry structure and anime's artistic idealism forces animators to suffer exploitation for the sake of art, with no solution in sight.
But even as the Democratic candidates point to very real concerns, they seem to my mind also able to offer a vision of hopefulness and idealism.
And when we come to our sweeping conclusions, we're not perceiving but projecting, and we're using couples to cling to our idealism or validate our cynicism.
Democrats will get a chance to sound off with their votes on the thorny question of idealism versus pragmatism that undergirds so much of this debate.
I see them in America, I see them around the world, 20-year-olds, 30-year-olds who are just full of talent, full of idealism.
In the media, Aker's duct tape protest has come to symbolize both the staunch idealism and, perhaps also, the petulance of Sanders supporters at the DNC.
For years, Game of Thrones fans have longed for one meeting: That of Jon Snow and Daenerys Targaryen, united by their blind idealism and good hearts.
As a form of liberalism, one way to be against "free speech" would be to reject the author's philosophical idealism in favor of historical materialist analysis.
It made her look bad, it was said, that she laid claim both to the idealism of the project and the lion's share of the profits.
Too often national politicians and international officials talk past each other: accusations of xenophobia fly in one direction, dismissals of starry-eyed idealism in the other.
Roy's idealism fits snugly with her unabated dedication to the others of Indian society—from tribal Maoists to Kashmiri rebels to Dalits (untouchables) to slum-dwellers.
While I remain undecided in the presidential race, a Biden-Obama ticket would inject dramatic and game-changing enthusiasm, idealism and excitement into the general election.
Torn between pride and skepticism, idealism and disappointment, they are at once actors in a sweeping international story and guinea pigs in a risky political experiment.
Delaney's struggling campaign is hoping the $40,000 ad buy could help reverse its political fortunes and widen the reach of their message rooted in pragmatic idealism.
The other alternative is to revert to the civic idealism of the early days of his campaign, which aimed to reform the Democratic Party from within.
As the United States continues to struggle with affordable housing, revisiting the idealism of the Greenbelt Towns is a chance to consider its success and failure.
It's a fine night in a crammed room with episodic humor and celebrity sightings, with scholarships awarded to journalism students who have contagious enthusiasm and idealism.
A. ROSS HILL Brooklyn To the Editor: David Brooks's lament about Hillary Clinton's loss of her 1960s idealism all too easily fits into his conservative worldview.
Ever since, Altamont has served as the symbolic end of the freewheeling 60s—a wake-up call that optimism and idealism weren't going to be enough.
Before our eyes, he melts through his kingmaker character's sang-froid to reveal the idealism he still harbors in his heart, misguided though it may be.
Meanwhile, young Steven (Khari Constantine) represents a new generation's evergreen idealism as he wants to make a go at resurrecting old-fashioned practices, like hook fishing.
This idealism is why the authorities support Fo Guang Shan, said Jin Xinhua, an official who helped the group secure the land for the new temple.
"In Transit" depicts cross-country train travel as a rare refuge of American idealism — the quintessence of the go-west spirit, even for passengers heading east.
Like the movement itself, their relationship is swept up in the passions and contradictions of the young: full of both conviction and uncertainty, idealism and fatalism.
For two and a half hours, moderate and progressive candidates grappled with whether pragmatism or idealism was the best formula for defeating Mr. Trump next year.
I have not forgotten my American friend's idealism — it's important not to lose sight of the fact that America, for all its flaws, can be great.
The loss of the idealism born in the 1960s is a familiar story, although Ms. Arcade specifically stresses that she has no nostalgia for any decade.
Such radical idealism comes with challenges, including finding producers and distributors who can accommodate requests like compostable packaging and figuring out how to recycle broken appliances.
Wherever her work took her afterward, Eastman would always come back to the Village, and its idealism shaped her politics for the rest of her life.
Their battle is infused with a healthy dose of youthful idealism, but their anticorruption campaign has caught on, as have like-minded movements across the region.
" It's a mixture of idealism and solipsism that reminded me of a German ex of mine, who insisted on calling himself "a citizen of the verld.
The movie, meanwhile, expands the schoolbook chronicle of the conquest of space beyond the usual heroes, restoring some of its idealism and grandeur in the process.
They were both wrong, Sanders erring in the direction of idealism and Clinton in that of pragmatism—the same qualities they hold out to voters now.
Now, as inequality grows and living here becomes increasingly unaffordable, reversing the decline in public education is not about idealism — it is about the state's survival.
At the same time, the advertising world in general has been taking baby steps away from the airbrushed idealism often used to sell products to women.
So if we're looking at this through the lens of the idealism of what the founders expected, they would be horrified by almost all of it.
The saga of the Betty Board recordings takes on an air of tragedy given its intersections with art, family, business, idealism, romance, drug abuse, and money.
By contrast, had Obama struggled more mightily than he did, Clinton's appeal to hard-nosedness, and her leeriness of high-minded idealism, would be easier to sell.
Yang, like the vast majority of his schoolmates, believes student idealism in this day and age must be channeled towards working with -- rather than against -- the government.
As the play's love affair between Philip Rawlings and Dorothy Bridges unfolds, the action contrasts the idealism of foreign volunteers and the ruthlessness of the rival factions.
The 42-year-old, known as Husna, grew up in Bangladesh and was a symbol of "idealism and honesty," her old neighbor, Maqshud Uzzal, wrote on Facebook.
This same wave of idealism buoyed up a small but passionate clique of British Modernist architects who had largely watched the burgeoning continental movement from the sidelines.
Democrats, who are still in the middle of a contentious debate between idealism (Bernie Sanders) and pragmatic realism (Hillary Clinton), might especially want to see the film.
The film's rookie firefighter is now a lieutenant and father who has maintained his idealism in what he said is a more fear-mongering and divisive world.
The early history of the Sea Ranch is on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism.
Mr. President, I will long remember your time in office as an era of pragmatic idealism, when lasting measures were enacted to better each of our lives.
Still, a culture of in-person idealism, even if naive or with gaps, is a refreshing alternative to the exhausting trudge through Twitter snark and aimless clicktivism.
Philosophically, Clinton supporters would no doubt like to frame the debate as her pragmatism vs his idealism, but the better comparison is her opportunism vs his authenticity.
Portland, Oregon (CNN)In this stereotyped mecca of liberal idealism lies a deep-seated subculture that just recently shocked the country: the white supremacist movement in Portland.
I think things like her kind of childish idealism, and what we'd both been taught is right, and how what you do reflects on your loved ones.
Keith Ellison, expecting to win back the nation based upon both altruistic Leftist economic policy and empathetic social progressivism is the most blatant example of Democratic idealism.
The lingering idealism of the 1960s, coupled with Boomer self-regard, turned the Kennedys into a family of marble busts: At some point, they stopped being human.
Berlin's history cuts off before she gets a chance to see how the influx of vast sums of money would undermine the idealism of many tech companies.
His advice was infused with an idealism bordering on nostalgia: this is how one would take one's cause to Congress, if Congress still functioned as it should.
" In Al-Ahram , the quote appeared in fusha as: "Idealism exists in books, but we're walking the pathway of success, and we will succeed day by day.
The group openly avows the idealism that drew them to Obama's first presidential campaign, along with a commitment to rational discourse in the face of partisan incivility.
In giant white block letters on a black ground, it proclaims, "Blind Idealism is Reactionary Scary Deadly," with the words reactionary and scary overlaid by red crosses.
You have to begin in Vietnam, as Holbrooke did, and understand that American involvement there was a complex mix of sincerity and blindness and idealism and hubris.
Still, there were pockets of realism within the idealism of a politician who, for all his blind spots, understood that the world could not continue as before.
The story of how Rhodes progressed from this idealism to a more nuanced vision of "the world as it is" is at the heart of this book.
As we rediscover our shared civic life in the wake of national tragedy, perhaps Americans will come to share London's idealism— and rebuild our weakened common culture.
Autofiction emerged at a time that felt like a historical correction, a period of unabashed idealism that placed us firmly at the center of our own destinies.
In the case of "Fidelio," he said, he was aiming to convey something of the piece's radical idealism in a production that fused modern and traditional elements.
" In "Castle Gripsholm" that idealism comes out to play once more, in a bucolic setting of "blue skies and gray skies, sun, sea-breath, fish and whiskey.
Boseman contends that without the considerable money that companies like Chumhum bring in, the firm's idealism would have no impact because they'd all be out of work.
For all his intelligence and sensitivity, Lopez dodges that particular challenge, letting the productive conflict between Eric's idealism and Henry's grizzled, cynical pragmatism dissipate, rather than resolve.
Yet, the greater its progress, the wider the gap between what Brown hopes to do and what his investors expect to gain—between idealism and market value.
I think many journalists go into this profession with a similar sense of idealism, though of course we have to keep our guard up about being sanctimonious.
Soon, however, a younger generation, influenced by the blossoming of modernism and by the shattered idealism brought on by two world wars, crashed awkwardly into the frame.
But the contrast between the idealism on display in the barracks and the absence of political leadership remains striking, analysts and defense experts say — especially in Berlin.
A low-key, lyrical criticism of Brasília's presumptive progress and idealism, "All Still Orbit" is surprisingly memorable, whereas Lampedusa, quietly resonant and beautiful, takes longer to unpack.
Those photos relayed the eerie notion that the presence of people would sully the pure idealism of spaces that were supposedly constructed specifically for human use and habitation.
Democrats have been animated by candidate Bernie Sanders, who appeals to idealism and insists on political purity as the only antidote to the political problems we face today.
The question of creating a better world is a dangerous one, especially in America, which has been a burn zone for Western idealism for a good while now.
The episode's overall arc suggests that Morgan's flawed idealism is somehow admirable, and that having finally been driven to kill because of Richard's botched plan was a tragedy.
Jupiter, the planet of luck, will square against Neptune, the planet of dreams and idealism, three times this year — and they haven't squared against each other since 2006!
What it says about the future: It reflects the increasing voice teenagers have in political circles, particularly as the news media seizes on their stories and their idealism.
Beyond embodying the hippies' idealism and radical social vision, Jesus healed the broken dreams and wrecked lives that many hippies felt were the Summer of Love's unexpected consequence.
He championed post-colonial states, challenged what he saw as the hegemony of the United States and helped turn his country into a seed-bed of 20093s idealism.
Bartleby tends to be cynical about such claims, recalling how the youthful idealism of his own peers was tamed by parenthood and the need to pay the mortgage.
It takes the right amount of grit and idealism to volunteer as a medic here in Oceti Sakowin, and people like Grantham have stepped up to the task.
But the idea Wollheim had introduced into the genre's microcosm—that science fiction might serve the ends of present-day politics—outlasted the prewar idealism that inspired it.
He operates with a kind of aggressive idealism, doubling down on his insistence that branding himself is really just a way to get people the help they need.
A Reddit thread from a few years ago pointed to examples of kings and queens whose portraits were likely rooted more in idealism or propaganda than physical accuracy.
Each is straining toward their own particular idealism, and a vote for one candidate seems to be a vote for a future vastly different from the other offered.
Or can we see them only as part of our past, a legacy that didn't work out, at least when it comes to Modernism's utopian thinking and idealism.
It was a necessary change: continuing to possess a blind idealism would've seemed strange and potentially could have weakened the film's quality—which would've also likely upset fans.
This idealism manifested itself later in the civil rights movement with more generally known Caribbean Americans such as Adam Clayton Powell, Malcolm X, Harry Belafonte and Shirley Chisolm.
She and her former boyfriend Tony (Richard Goulding, a 2016 Tony nominee for the Almeida's "King Charles III") look on as idealism gives way to fractiousness, and worse.
The generation before them came of age during the first flash of reform and opening up, whose idealism was very much crushed in 1989 with the Tiananmen massacre.
In its disciplined idealism, Macron's campaign is self-consciously modelled on Obama's 2008 operation, right down to the armies of fresh-faced volunteers in cool-looking T-shirts.
As usual, removing a freeway was characterized as pie-in-the-sky hippie idealism, while dumping billions more into huge freeway expansions was cast as the sensible choice.
I met Hayden through the internet, and over the years I've come to appreciate the weird sort of idealism that funnels into every aspect of his musical career.
With its lyrics, the band also attempts — as the album title suggests — to recreate a late-hippie spirit that mixes hedonism, idealism and a conscience, a rickety balance.
Yes, America is, and will be once more when the nightmare passes, as it must if Americans have half the stubborn resourcefulness and passionate idealism of Richard Holbrooke.
Her youngest son, Nello, more contemplative, devoted himself to historical studies that marked the stark contrast between the idealism of the Risorgimento and the brutality of Mussolini's regime.
Walls are going up everywhere, and China has demonstrated that the internet can be controlled, but the spread of ideas and idealism is not easily held in check.
It's a reminder that the upward striving of first- and second-generation Jewish immigrants in the middle decades of the 20th century was accompanied by fervent political idealism.
Now supporting these policies requires the party to depend on the altruistic idealism of millions of supporters who, despite being relatively well off, often feel financially pressed themselves.
But the weak track record of the activist-backed candidates suggests there is something limited about the appeal of candidates who depend on policy, ideological argument or idealism.
Bouteflika championed post-colonial states, challenged what he saw as the hegemony of the United States and helped turned his country into a seed-bed of 20093s idealism.
This flimsy anticolonial stance may be designed to give the Italian government a patina of idealism, but it reveals a muddled understanding of African political and economic dynamics.
Many such businesses also have a philanthropic focus that's driven by youthful idealism or by a recognition that the business can do good as well as doing well.
We had this idea about 60s idealism in the 70s and 80s that it had just been a disaster, and we weren't going to mess with the family.
She represented the idealism of a country that imagined itself as a beacon of hope for all people, but she may have committed suicide; we still don't know.
As far as Pantone's explanation as to why it chose Greenery for 2017, folks were a bit surprised, even envious, about the company's idealism looking toward the new year.
Now this is the evidence…You want me to make an act of faith…on some idealism which you assure me exists in America, which I have never seen.
Much like the open, sharing-focused internet culture that Facebook grew up in and ruined, the blockchain wave has been rooted in idealism and sunny predictions about decentralized networks.
In his most recent book, "Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution " published just last fall, Bogle said his early thesis was steeped in idealism.
In it, she explores the tension between her early-twenties idealism and self-righteousness and hints at her later desire to be seen as a more holistic, complex individual.
Some have insisted that the movement can simply take on, without much alteration of its traditional idealism and tactics, the challenge of inequality that it ignored for so long.
"The craft brewing renaissance is part of the hippie dream of the '70s, so I think there is some built-in idealism," said Sam Calagione, founder of Dogfish Head.
From the first iteration of the Loft to later, grander, international projects, he always maintained the same "loft-y" idealism of fostering inclusion and love through music and dance.
A favourite image in the early work was a lit match burning away a glass of alcohol: nothing to the censors but, to him, idealism evaporating in the war.
"Senator Harris's plan balances idealism and pragmatism," Andy Slavitt, former acting administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said in a statement provided by the Harris campaign.
Meanwhile, the family business back in New York beckons, headed by his mobster brother (Corey Stoll), and Dorfman must balance idealism with the hard-headedness of the real world.
Stapleton's farewell note perfectly captures the larger moral crisis unfolding at Google and across Silicon Valley, and reflects growing disillusionment with an industry that once represented hope and idealism.
When our new Members take the oath, our Congress will be refreshed, and our Democracy will be strengthened by the optimism, idealism and patriotism of this transformative Freshman Class.
Throughout his career, his creative output—as well as the events he has organized—has had an exceptionally high standard due to his sense of perfectionism and musical idealism.
Third, our institutions must serve as laboratories in which students, faculty members, staff members and trustees collaborate and compromise to create sustainable futures that balance idealism with financial realities.
She is attempting to repeat her viral moment with a new video, one that leans hard on idealism while also attacking McConnell as the embodiment of a dysfunctional Washington.
Lincoln was a brilliant writer and profound thinker, yet it was his patience and respect for the Constitution, and not his idealism or prose, that enabled him to prevail.
It is not necessarily a clean choice between idealism and pragmatism, between principle and politics, between dynamism and incrementalism — though all those things are at play to some degree.
Amid the threats, apocalypticism and ugly passions of the 2016 election, its bloodless cynicism and petty stakes are almost reassuring, like President Bartlet's idealism was after the Clinton impeachment.
While Mr. Corbyn's Labour Party may not augur much stability for British politics, his socialist idealism is better by far than the toxic future proposed by Europe's far right.
Hill zeros in on the failures and discarded idealism of the boomers, a generation that pivoted, in less than two decades, from motorcycles to minivans, from socialism to sushi.
Like Mr. Kiwanuka, they connect organic sounds to a sense of idealism, pointedly harking back to songwriters like Marvin Gaye and Curtis Mayfield, who channeled pleasure toward larger aspirations.
What might have been a self-satisfied smackdown of reality TV and its audience has become a challenging and delectably entertaining drama about power and deception, idealism and cynicism.
Miriam Lewin, a journalist who was tortured and later testified, told me that while Moreno-Ocampo appreciated the momentousness of the trials, his idealism was undone by his arrogance.
Taking up the first room of the exhibition, these works illustrate a kind of idealism that perhaps mirrors the formation of utopian ideals leading up to the Cuban revolution.
The cultural moment Chapman captured is widely believed to have helped inspire the radical events of May 1968 and a general rejection of American technological idealism, racism, and homophobia.
But in the real world, and not one of decaying American idealism, there are almost always consequences if you're a government employee and you attempt to subvert state oppression.
There was no vision, no inspiration, no idealism, no expression of hope, no promise of change, no spirit of mission that would persuade undecided voters or inspire base voters.
The outcome was the show's darkest spin yet on the way power-mad manipulators — corporations, terrorists, political leaders — use others' values and idealism as fuel for their own agendas.
And there is something more: "The World as It Is" is a classic coming-of-age story, about the journey from idealism to realism, told with candor and immediacy.
Compared to Cagliostro, the villains of The Wind Rises are mostly ephemeral; a spectre of death hangs over the film as Jiro's idealism and ambitions clash with his reality.
A short while later, he recalled, an Italian colleague, Sergio Fubini, walked into his office and told him it was time to put his "naïve idealism" to the test.
With his slick, easy optimism, Mayor Pete reminds me of so many techies who promise big, disruptive change while refusing to accept the full costs of achieving their idealism.
But his idealism had turned swiftly into realism, and the war had become a matter of him and his friends surviving each day as days cohered into a tour.
Telling that story requires both elements of humanity, and space for tension to form between the pressures the drive us to pragmatism and the hopes that idealism always harbors.
While he has shifted in some areas, he will still be running to the right of the most prominent candidates, with more of an emphasis on pragmatism than idealism.
When it comes to striking that right balance between idealism and realism, this book is basically a dialogue between the young, uncompromising, superidealistic Power — who cold-calls senior American officials at night at home to berate them for not doing more to stop the killing in Bosnia — and the more sober policymaker Power, who struggles to balance her idealism with realism, and who frets that she's become one of those officials she despised.
The dizzying idealism reaches its height in one of the exhibition's most striking rooms where, bird-like, a wood and canvas flying machine is suspended from a vaulting rotunda ceiling.
He talked about his blue-sky political ideals as something he believed in passionately, but he separated that idealism from his practical legislative work, which was grounded in vote counts.
If businesses do change their minds about projects there, it's more likely to be because of expropriation risk than it is to be a triumph of high-minded democratic idealism.
In place of supposed Silicon Valley virtues like idealism, flexibility, and merit we now detect opportunism, self-dealing, individualism, overblown promises, and, as always, a great man to lead us.
"That lack of idealism is what allowed Obama to beat her, and it's giving Bernie room to grow," said Dan Payne, a Democratic strategist in Boston who supports Mrs. Clinton.
The Patriarchate of Moscow was resurrected, in a brief burst of liberal idealism in 1917, and for the remainder of the 20th century it suffered the vicissitudes of Soviet history.
With a bit of nostalgia, Obama reflected on his more than seven years in office, saying he had been a young man of idealism and vigor before he became president.
"The Internationalists" doesn't use the terms "realism" and "idealism," but if it did, its point would be that policies once disparaged as idealistic turned out to have significant tangible consequences.
By the mid-nineties, Yan was writing shows for the Army's TV-production unit, simple stories designed to foster responsibility and idealism, while working on fiction in his spare time.
But the paradox of idealism and terror, as it is intertwined in these works and typified in the eye-candy horror of "Red Sundew 2," is what holds their fascination.
We do not accept that modern narrative, the primacy of factions over the truth of a common Americanism, common idealism, and a shared hope in a better future, for prosperity.
Genovés, who designed the Acali (as it was called) and made the crossing with his subjects, was motivated by idealism and curiosity rather than — or perhaps in addition to — prurience.
It's easy to feel drawn to this poet's idealism and generosity of spirit; hard, as well, not to be grateful for moments when she indulges in a little self-puncturing.
Presidents are human, too, a blend of varying degrees of idealism, generosity, empathy, ambition, ego, vanity, jealousy and anger, but they generally hide their unvarnished traits behind an official veneer.
Some parents are almost neurotically responsible, passing down a sense of penny-pinching thrift as though it were an heirloom; others prize idealism, encouraging their children to follow their dreams.
Percy is 21 and has already abandoned one wife and child, but his capital-R romantic idealism includes a few clauses about free love that chime with Mary's rebellious inheritance.
Though built as a conventional, chronological memoir, "A Rumor of War" is about how that idealism became first tarnished, then cracked, then finally demolished by the insanity of the war.
President Lyndon Johnson's ambitious Great Society initiative was in full effect, and though she had intentions of pursuing a graduate degree, Mom decided first to put her idealism into practice.
The disappearance of an antagonist that had defined America's self-image for much of the 20th century unleashed the solipsistic idealism that Niebuhr, among many midcentury intellectuals, had warned against.
"While we believe in the idealism of young people, it is important also for them to consider the experience of the old people," Mahathir, 94, told Reuters in an interview.
They are less pretty than powerful, as a testament to idealism and its challenges — evidence of our continual urge to gather and make demands on Washington, wherever and whenever needed.
He opened limited space for small private enterprise, introduced performance-based salary increases and reduced state subsidies, publicly rejecting "three principles of Fidelismo: paternalism, idealism and egalitarianism," Mr. Latell said.
All of the contrasts of idealism and greed, gloss and substance so central to the story's effectiveness are flattened under the pressure of forcing it to stand without enough legs.
Now it's chasing the battered but not-yet-extinguished promise of an optimistic take on the world by marrying a lexicon of idealism to an almost metronomic pursuit of substantive clicks.
Wonder Woman gets its philosophical bent from the conflict between her pure, untested idealism and the actual gruesome realities of war, and it finds rich ground in the gap between them.
Alicia wants to believe something else is possible, that common ground exists, that people don't have to be classified as "allies or enemies," but this modest idealism only emphasizes her isolation.
The drama half of the series has performed well as a lesson in preserving idealism in the face of compromise, and staying true to who you are when hit with hardship.
Dylan, a dyed-in-the-wool romantic, has almost no hard edges — how do you make someone whose romantic idealism appears almost crippling also a character people want to root for?
Redemption is one of the fundamental themes of art and literature, from the Bible to the "Odyssey", from Raskolnikov's rebirth in "Crime and Punishment" to Rick's late-breaking idealism in "Casablanca".
"I think we should all be really understanding of that and should try to do the best we can not to be, you know, a wet blanket on idealism," she said.
Ellison's willingness to embrace identity politics as the prominent issues upon which to base his DNC chair campaign election-winning issues is an example of this failed Democratic idealism in action.
The idealism of the early 1960s, symbolized by America's youthful new president, was gone, replaced by a creeping cynicism and an unease that the fabric of American society was coming apart.
We must open the doors of the party to welcome in the idealism and energy of young people and all Americans who are fighting for economic, social, racial and environmental justice.
Clinton and her team have long ago grown weary of any implication that she is not entirely committed to liberal causes, repeatedly presenting her as a fusion of pragmatism and idealism.
Still, "we might as well take shards of fairness and idealism and so on whenever we find them in our past and recognize that and give credit to them," he said.
"There is a lot of idealism to who she was — how strong she was — and I think a lot of people thought she'd have a stronger, deeper voice," Ms. Servin said.
Unwilling to abandon her idealism completely, however, she leads a double life, maintaining a not-so-secret solicitor's practice in the parking garage of the high-rise where she now works.
A former student activist and human-rights lawyer, he was elected last year in a burst of idealism, following the mass "Candlelight Movement" that ousted the conservative President Park Geun-hye.
It is that city-on-the-hill, white settler, ethno-nationalist idealism which imagined that rural, largely autonomous, ethnically and religiously homogenous lifestyles would always characterize the "real" or "true" Americans.
He clings to the faith that his thwarted ambition, his battered idealism and his dented self-esteem will all be vindicated if Eliza wins a competitive scholarship to study in England.
But their quest to reverse McMillian and others' convictions fly right in the face of the powerful, and Stevenson's experiences with McMillian begin to change the shape of his own idealism.
Yet old Democrats remain focused on Bill Clinton's "art of the possible," even when confronted with the unbounded idealism of this new group, which has no time for 25,000 Amazon jobs.
Scarred by his own experience growing up in Nazi Germany, Kissinger has always been alive to the fragility of democracy, a feeling that has guided his approach, one that abhors idealism.
But that isn't the most striking part of the speech, the rest of which was imbued with idealism and a thoughtfulness that's perhaps a bit surprising coming from a college senior.
Mack, in his 2003 book "German Idealism and the Jew," wrote that Kant "attempted to remove Christianity's Judaic foundations" by recasting Christian history as a revolutionary or radical parting from Judaism.
We had an owner who was committed, we had an owner who got a lot of attention because of his earnestness and because of kind of the idealism that he espoused.
But believe me that his smoky stylishness slotted in perfectly around 750063 to the political-cultural shifts in a counter-cultural mood that combined feminism, passivism, racial idealism, hedonism, and economic optimism.
Many politicians spent their younger days working or volunteering for campaigns, and they now regale voters with stories about knocking on doors for a candidate whose virtue appealed to their young idealism.
A string trio took the stage, playing a selection of pop hits that traced an emotional arc from grunge-era ennui ("Bitter Sweet Symphony") to hopeful ambivalence ("Wonderwall") to soaring idealism ("Imagine").
From Turkey to Chile, from France to Egypt, from Brazil to Libya, such upsurges of fury and idealism have marked the past decade, only to fail or fade more often than not.
Idealism is a disease, and we must constantly be analyzing and restructuring society to fit the needs of now—not passing some legislation and hoping in 20-30 years things pan out.
The tapes appear either unimportant or purely strategic, which arguably makes more sense, but removes the last vestiges of idealism from a group whose ideals were always vague in the first place.
I'll remember the unbudging stubbornness, the infuriating inflexibility and the fatalistic idealism that have characterised late-era Wenger, with far greater clarity than I'll remember his radical years as the pioneering Professeur.
A song from 1968 that helps connect the youthful idealism of today's Sanders supporters to the days when today's old Democrats were themselves youthful idealists is a good way to do that.
You have this thing with neoconservatism militarism fused with moral idealism that seeks to achieve everything but ends up accomplishing nothing and doing so at a huge cost of blood and money.
Imagine the game that could've been, though, if we (as Dutch) watched our own mask fall, the glory of our idealism crumbling under the pressures of an ever-changing and hostile world.
And while popular culture has emphasized the community, generosity, and hippie idealism of the '69 version despite its flaws, the 2019 version seems to be lacking all of its enduring positive qualities.
Both are a far cry from the idealism of the acclaimed political TV series "The West Wing" in the early 2000s, and instead reflect a deep cynicism toward national politics, Thompson said.
The novel is a sharp depiction of the intersection between political turmoil and domestic life, and its concern with women's rights, authoritarian rule, liberal idealism, and speculative capitalism feels urgent and contemporary.
To future generations, I suspect the success of Pentatonix, Glee, and the a cappella show choir will seem like a sad relic of the Obama era, the product of a blinkered idealism.
Moreover, Mr. Trump's wall would rise in stark contrast to the freedom and opportunity we stand for as a nation whose eminence comes from our openness, idealism and engagement in the world.
When the most powerful man in the world is a study in lawlessness, Tarantino's self-interested anti-heroes are a galaxy away from the kind of idealism we miss in our movies.
They didn't question his devotion — he often worked seven days a week, closely managing every case — but increasingly they questioned his judgment, which seemed always caught between that ego and his idealism.
It's about the moral appeal of the war, about the anti-Fascist and frequently pro-Communist idealism that made so many volunteers from the United States and other countries flood into Spain.
To criticize the circus is to object to our reflection, our identity, to ingenuity and bizarro entrepreneurship, and the sham idealism and slow-motion grandeur we glop on all our home movies.
For his part, Chuck combines political idealism with his desire to stick it to Jeffcoat and pushes for a mobile-voting pilot program among the Cayuga Nation people in upstate New York.
"The things I liked about Bernie was the progressive idealism, but the things I liked about Clinton was the pragmatism," Valerie McIntosh, 28, said at a rally for Ms. Warren in Detroit.
For all the heady idealism of "Imagine," which she also records on Warzone, and, for that matter, of much of Ono's work, there is grit and unsettling candor in her music, too.
With his bullish idealism, Mr. Barenboim is putting a stamp on the State Opera and its satellite organizations that increasingly defines a large segment of Berlin's cultural identity in his own image.
In this view, adolescent dalliances with Rage Against the Machine — like dalliances with vegetarianism and Howard Zinn — reflect an idealism we're meant not to carry into adulthood but, rather, sagely slough off.
When Mr. Bregman wasn't working on projects about gangsters, crime and violence, he seemed to have a soft spot for relationship stories with at least a touch of idealism and wistful comedy.
In a closed-door meeting with the incoming freshman Democrats on Tuesday, Ms. Pelosi walked a fine line, acknowledging their "idealism, integrity and imagination" while warning of the risks of being intransigent.
It was that sense of idealism for an open society that compelled me to take off my gasmask and expose my face when I was in the legislative chamber on July 1st.
But even as Mr. Toles-Bey waited outside one of Mr. Obama's recent rallies, he wondered aloud if his political hero's signature idealism had a place in today's flame-throwing political climate.
Was "House of Cards" really born of this idea that ooh, it's really ugly and people know it's not the "The West Wing," so let's cut the idealism and embrace the cynicism?
What I've learned is that it is foolish to view realism and idealism as incompatible or to consider our power and wealth as encumbered by the demands of justice, morality and conscience.
By and by, she spoke of Gail in the same way: the essential nature of Gail's personality, the quality of Gail's artistic talents, the high idealism of Gail's plans for the future.
But it's still a subtle, cutting rebuke of an old strain of internet idealism — the kind that unconditionally celebrated the weird chaos of a cultural petri dish, until it started breeding monsters.
In that social-media post, Dalio touts the importance of balancing realism and idealism by pursuing your dreams while also being as realistic as possible about the best ways to achieve them.
This smash-hit documentary series tells the story of OSHO, a New Age religious cult that would go from utopian idealism to assassination attempts and bio-terror plots in a matter of years.
"When our new members take the oath, our Congress will be refreshed, and our democracy will be strengthened by the optimism, idealism and patriotism of this transformative freshman class," said Pelosi on Thursday.
Jose Esquivel's surrealistic "Dreamers in Space," directly influenced by René Magritte's Golconda (1953), trades bowler hats for graduation caps, capitalizing upon the idealism of youth threatened by a current state of political limbo.
And they are carving a tunnel of hope through the great mountain of despair…And they will bring to this nation a quality of idealism it so deeply needs…Keep this movement going.
The moment Europeans conquered the Americas, as Leguizamo narrates in his special, not only did they bring weapons, germs, and diseases to the continents—they brought Eurocentric idealism and anti-Blackness, as well.
From a clinical standpoint, what the VA needs more than anything is the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed young physicians to provide care and also bring their Millennial idealism to lead this VHA transformation.
Whether it was a wilful idealism or just not wanting to be rude to a guest, my more cynical theories were rebuffed in favor of focusing on the possibilities of the music itself.
"I said that one day his idealism would be put to the test and that he must pay attention not to set himself on a path of pride and anger," Mr. Derbaix recalled.
There could indeed have been another path for the Bolshevik Revolution: the very naïveté, idealism, and lack of guile demonstrated by so many of the Old Bolsheviks remains a testament to their decency.
You may have learned the hard way to look past your idealism to see the bigger picture, and as Uranus entered your sign, you changed your traditional approaches to go against the grain.
It's that to the best of our knowledge so far, he chose one so closely associated with racism, harassment, and internet sociopathy — while representing a medium that's supposedly defined by idealism and empathy.
But a recent proposal to restore some of that idealism by balancing the number of low-income children enrolled in schools across Howard County, including those in Columbia, has led to bitter divisions.
She appears here — drawing from her recent second album, "Restless Idealism" — with the trumpeter Jeremy Pelt, the pianist Chris Pattishall, the guitarist Alex Wintz, the bassist Rick Rosato and the drummer Jimmy Macbride.
Day after day, week after week, month after month, his small donors have come through with a generosity of spirit and an idealism of purpose to build a better future for American democracy.
On the one hand, his is a cynical denial that hospitality, idealism, and labors of love exist, an insistence on seeing every instance of venial human hypocrisy as proof of a meaningless void.
"We must open the doors of the party to welcome in the idealism and energy of young people and all Americans who are fighting for economic, social, racial and environmental justice," he continued.
These activists are people in their 20s and early 30s facing a looming catastrophe that previous generations — the very ones busy scolding them for their excess idealism — failed utterly to prevent or address.
The so-called Plural generation, who are, "even more than Millennials," leading sociologists agree, "marked by a profound, if reactionary, idealism; countering their parents' (Gen X) disillusionment," turned out to vote en masse.
A firm insistence by the media that politicians display in-depth knowledge, fact-based realism and astute judgment — while eschewing empty sloganism and easy campaign promises — would be a real show of idealism.
If it offers a powerful caution against overdosing on the kind of idealism that led us into nation-building exercises in Vietnam and Iraq, it can also keep statesmen from grasping their opportunities.
If, as Dubuffet would have it, Szlyak's folk art is drawn entirely from his "own depths," then his depths are brimming with the American dream as seen through the filter of immigrant idealism.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The development of many Latin American nations has been characterized by periods of colonialism followed by independence, utopian idealism, and in many cases, oppression, corruption, and inequality.
Former President Barack Obama has been on the campaign trail before next week's midterm elections, but some of his supporters wonder if his idealism has a place in today's flame-throwing political climate.
As stinging as a slap in the face, "Paulina" feels as if it's waking you from a stupor, then shaking you, demanding that you ask yourself some impossible questions about idealism and justice.
I sensed her outsize creative ambition and her patriotic idealism, and I began to appreciate in a more nuanced way the multiple narratives that fed her life as an artist and art patron.
The book and movie, "Charlie Wilson's War," captured the idealism behind the intervention -- but also the failure to follow through with funding to help solidify the post-state after the Soviets were repelled.
In a brief scene that speaks to Kore-eda's idealism about other people, a storekeeper who Shota targets gives the children some candy and tells the boy not to make his sister steal.
It's an extraordinary sequence of events, all the more so because McCready was a first-time candidate driven by a degree of patriotism and idealism I don't encounter in politicians all that often.
And it's become the subject of heated debate in the wine world, with natural wine purists arguing for its virtue and thrilling taste, and traditionalists criticizing the perceived flaws and even its idealism.
And though this mix of right and left brain kept him from dropping $80,000 on an MFA and fulfilling his dreams, it did create within him a unique blend of idealism and rationality.
In a way, that feels more honest than the strain of idealism that distinguishes most superhero movies, daring to question whether great power and great responsibility are a bonded pair, or mutually exclusive.

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