"She is an unreconstructed idealist, an idealist without any irony about her idealism."
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She considered Lyndon an idealist, too, an idealist who knew how to get things done.
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Signed, Apathetic idealist Dear Apathetic Idealist, I have no doubt that many people can relate to your letter.
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Now I'm sure that sounds like I'm this kind of, you know, idealist, or some sort of a patriot, but I am a patriot, and I'm somewhat of an idealist too.
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So count me in now as a fully reformed idealist.
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I am an idealist who lives in the real world.
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Despite this, Frank's a perpetual idealist, if an esoteric one.
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Gene Roddenberry, the creator of "Star Trek," was an idealist.
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I am not expressing the views of an idealist here.
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Even if they've kind of advertised themselves as an idealist.
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A Peace Corps–volunteering idealist who dreams about feeding the world?
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Mr Corbyn is an idealist who cultivates an image of sanctity.
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Back then, I was still a bit of a utopian idealist!
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Presumably, he meant "bleeding-heart idealist," but the phrase seemed apt.
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Her idealist son would not be capable of something like this.
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Girls compare airbrushed idealist version of perfection to their own bodies.
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The Idealist does not shed new light on Swartz's life or death;
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Clinton, the young idealist, grew up to become a left-wing activist.
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Basically Ross was an idealist, he was all about the free market.
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Spring. Writing twenty years after the idealist reform movement was crushed, he
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This binding document is idealist in its belief in an ideal collective.
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And there's Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), the group's idealist and, consequently, occasional hothead.
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She is an idealist who can't help noticing that nothing is ideal.
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Terry is also something of an idealist, in a muscular, Republican way.
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"I'm an idealist — it can be annoying and I'm constantly disappointed," she said.
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You're an idealist, dear centaur, but it's crucial you get realistic about this.
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Ami Dar founded the website Idealist, a job-posting board for nonprofit organizations.
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But he went on to describe himself as an internationalist and an idealist.
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" He wants to rid Chatroulette of public nudity, and calls himself "an idealist.
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It's an idealist ballet; but its ideals, in our era, now seem misplaced.
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The documentary, directed by James Demo, is not a portrait of an idealist.
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So … bottom line seems to be that it's the idealist or the wingman.
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Lee, a widow and an idealist about public life, is a desirable catch.
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Each of them is an idealist at a moment when idealism seems appropriate.
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If I wasn't an idealist, I wouldn't be so mad all the time.
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Luke, as Ari Kohen notes, was a Jedi idealist in the original trilogy.
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I admire the young people because I feel they're idealists, and I'm an idealist.
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She's trying to go in there and make a difference — she's a young idealist.
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People told me she was a real idealist — not a tortured one like me.
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What the EU needs is to think like a realist rather than an idealist.
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Oleg, an idealist, committed treason in season four to protect the world from biological warfare.
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He's an idealist, but his fellow cops function as the toughest gang on the block.
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I wanted fashion to be happy–but oh my God, what an idealist I was.
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No one survives in this world by being an idealist and not being a realist.
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After Zuma, Tshidi Madia, once an ardent idealist, radically shifted her expectations for her country.
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He was a true idealist, that senator from Arizona, but he was also a realist.
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He sees himself as a "pragmatic idealist" He has tried to reach across party lines.
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The revolutionary and even idealist nature of King's speech cannot — and should not — be understated.
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Power's new book, " The Education of an Idealist ," takes in much of this tumultuous time.
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His company may cater to rich thrill seekers, but he insists he is an idealist.
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But only an idealist treats his audience with as much respect as he does here.
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What Mr. Small is practicing in his post is what I would call idealist criticism.
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Wolfowitz, an idealist and humanitarian, had long believed in America's responsibility to promote democracy abroad.
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The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the…From amazon4 bought by readersGMG may get a commissionBuy nowThis post was adapted and excerpted from The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet, by Justin Peters.
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So which is he, asks Mr Chollet: a woolly-headed liberal idealist or an unsentimental realist?
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Menotti was Bilardo's antithesis, a thinker and idealist who believed there was intrinsic value in aesthetics.
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Butina's lawyers called her a "genuine idealist, and compassionate civil activist," in a recent court filing.
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In an age of cynics, he was, and on the evidence of "Memoirs" remains, an idealist.
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Mr. Booy, a self-described "radical idealist," started the "Christ-centered urban school" 36 years ago.
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Warren, an idealist who often takes on Wall Street interests aggressively, is popular with those voters.
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Those feigning surprise over an insult as tame as "moron" must have an idealist vision Washington.
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How do you distinguish a foreign policy "idealist" from a "realist," an optimist from a pessimist?
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Sure, there's VolunteerMatch, Idealist, there were a few others, but they were all, again, not standardized. Right.
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Maybe I'm an idealist, but that is not how I remember the world prior to the 2120th.
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The chain-smoking Missouri Mule is not a fashionable cynic, but the real thing: a disappointed idealist.
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The idealist in me wants to be able to buy everything from small companies and Kickstarter outfits.
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An idealist with a pedantic streak and "a political mind," she is forever initiating community-improvement programs.
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Of course, I'm not a naïve, wide-eyed idealist and I didn't drink the Halal Kool aid.
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He's a wavy-haired sixty-five-year-old, with the sunny manner of an undefeated hippie idealist.
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"I'm trying not to be an idealist and trying to be practical about it," Laura Orris said.
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By the end of "The Idealist," Peters has dropped the pretension of neutrality and taken up Swartz's crusade.
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The privileged young idealist learns to dance and falls in love with bad-boy resort dancer Johnny Castle.
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Ultimately, despite Obama's clear record as a "pragmatic idealist," progressives still championed his candidacy and its historic nature.
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More important, it was a start, and Wofford was a pragmatic idealist: he believed in progress, not perfection.
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On paper, Obama was a step forward—a young, biracial idealist appealing to basic tenants of social progress.
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Unfortunately, however, that view looks at the Vietnam/Iran analogy through the rose-colored lens of an idealist.
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We meet Gabriel's boss, an idealist with a cocaine habit, and then the boss's sister, a recovering addict.
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Yet their dreams help them assert their more idealist and empathetic side, and break out of their individual shells.
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In their view, he was an idealist, a demagogue, a candidate who was making promises he could never keep.
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We're a fairly idealist company and I think the Translate team has more than its fair share of idealists.
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However, it's exactly this setup that mirrors the trajectory of idealist love that starts strong and then goes wrong.
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John Perry Barlow, who died on February 7th, was a Grateful Dead lyricist, cyber-pundit, cattle rancher and idealist.
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Captain America is an idealist, and his blind optimism and upbeat attitude have rarely come back to bite him.
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Sanders, meanwhile, has positioned himself as an idealist more interested in reinventing the system than in slightly improving it.
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That is the lesson of Bobby Kennedy, the rigid ideologue turned idealist who captured our greatest hope and potential.
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Superman is an immigrant, a working journalist, an idealist and a devoted participant in a long-running office romance.
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That idealist optimism lies in stark contrast to other images that arise among another faction of Trump-supporting art.
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It shaped me into an idealist and a person who believes you can have an impact on the world.
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Jerry, a well-read working-class idealist, falls for Ursula, the child of a bien-pensant middle-class family.
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You allege that I practice an "idealist criticism" that will justify my supposed belief that art must be political.
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THE IDEALIST Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet By Justin Peters 337 pp. Scribner. $28.
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Once again, she has been caught coasting on inevitability by a grass-roots idealist with a universal health care plan.
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Mr Zuckerberg, who is 32, is an idealist and talks frequently about connecting people, improving education and changing immigration policy.
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Martinez was an idealist and, like all idealists, he found himself beaten down by the crushing cynicism of human existence.
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WASHINGTON — One is a rail-thin liberal idealist who spent his career in government, on campaigns and at think tanks.
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JON CARAMANICA In a grand celebrity metamorphosis, Ke$ha the decadent party girl has turned into Kesha the social idealist.
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I once asked Pinto whether he was an idealist, and he surprised me by seeming not to know the word.
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But Zuckerberg also admits that the idealist train of thought might have blinded the company to potential misuses of Facebook's toolset.
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The death of King Harrow—who is introduced as an idealist ruler and father—is treated with genuine respect and gravitas.
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Those who idolise Che do so because they see him as an idealist who laid down his life for a cause.
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He had made himself into a freelance idealist, one who was uninterested in waiting around for systems to gradually reform themselves.
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Zuckerberg may not personally like that since he's an "idealist" but he's built a platform that encourages the worst in humanity.
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A: My main character carries the weight of having an idealist political father, while he is more busy with making money.
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The struggle between these two jousting politicos, between the iron-fisted realist and the silver-tongued idealist, drives the novel's plot.
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He's a pit bull in a fedora, but his loyalty to the studio suggests that he's either an idealist or a fanatic.
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During your travels in Europe, did you notice the EU's idealist myth—nations coming together and cooperation out of good will—disintegrating?
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Justin Peters is most committed to documenting in his book The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the
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"Maria Butina is a devoted daughter, genuine idealist, and compassionate civil activist," her defense attorneys wrote in their sentencing memo Friday night.
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The Definitive Guide to Business If you want to work for Tim Cook at Apple, then you'd better be a determined idealist.
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And in my sweet, idealist mind, I imagined such swaps to contain ample bounties of freshly baked goods by the colorful plateful.
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Instead, it probes the structure of a belief system and how that can mutate from idealist origins to more mind-controlling ones.
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Somewhere in the distance, Celine Dion sings "My Heart Will Go On" as she pours one out for the French architect-idealist.
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"I am not an idealist, but I am hopeful," Lopez said, as we neared the end of our two-part marathon conversation.
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Marton charts his transformation from an idealist to Stalinist hard-liner, tracing his ideology to what he saw as failures of capitalism.
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What I like about President Macron is that he is an idealist but not an ideologue and is firmly grounded in reality.
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" The confused idealist: "I'm just taking some time off of Facebook to work on my [strange video memoir that will never be completed].
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" So many of us are just trying to cling to our inner Amy Jellicoes — that idealist just fighting for the greater good. "LISTEN.
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The sense was that for these two very different Democrats—the quintessential pragmatist versus the sometimes utopian idealist—the gloves had come off.
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She's a singular creation in American television, a thoroughly human idealist who always chooses duty to Mother Russia regardless of the human cost.
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The Swede comes to life as an aggrieved father but not as an idealist whose foundations of belief are shaken to their core.
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The most startling thing about a book titled The Education of an Idealist is that Power appears not to have learned very much.
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Many of them relate to his political credentials as an idealist who fought for perceived victims of injustice, particularly in the developing world.
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She was a table-pounding idealist and human rights advocate, and believed in using American power to protect innocent civilians and advance democracy.
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An idealist -- Bernie Sanders is running on a clear platform and he has made it plain that he is not interested in compromise.
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Sitting at breakfast one day the guy next to me started talking about hydrogen-powered trucking — I figured I'd indulge this harmless idealist.
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I thought that he was a naïve idealist and that the Washington power structure would eat him alive — both sides of the aisle.
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Ms. Sakata's deeply researched script could come off as preachy, but in Mr. de la Fuente's hands, Gordon is a sweetly steely idealist.
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Clinton in South Carolina in 2008, Bill Clinton, angry at her big defeat by a young idealist, compared Mr. Obama's win to the Rev.
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Admittedly this makes him only six years older than Labour's leader, but Mr Corbyn is essentially a young idealist trapped in an ageing body.
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He was talking about fixing Pennsylvania Station, and presumably he meant the good Moses, the young, public-spirited idealist who opened parks and beaches.
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Many people are somewhat taken aback when they find out that really I am an idealist, and an optimist about where we are heading.
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"Flooded Modernity" is a faithful 1:1 mock-up of a corner of the French architect-idealist Le Corbusier's 1927 modernist masterpiece, Villa Savoye.
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"He was an idealist," said Mikhail P. Lyubimov, a former K.G.B. officer in London who saw Mr. Philby frequently in Moscow after his defection.
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But when the Book Review editors asked me to review Samantha Power's "The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir," I said yes, without hesitation.
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In many respects, her journey has become her generation's journey — from protester to parent and now grandparent, from earnest idealist to battle-hardened realist.
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The children remain little beasts; his father remains a baron of bluster and a deluded idealist, still smitten with the promise of pan-Arabism.
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To his fans, the episode epitomised the Yevtushenko they adored: an idealist who spoke for his generation, a man whose humanism transcended the cold war.
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But the work isn't made better or more meaningful because of the artist's participation in an idealist, constructivist project in the small town of Michoacan.
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The cold war produced a hybrid between the Hamiltonian approach—international engagement favouring American interests, particularly those of business—and the internationalist and idealist Wilsonians.
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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have remarkably different approaches when it comes to proposing policy changes: If Clinton is a realist, Sanders is an idealist.
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Leslie Knope, the government-idealist and feminist hero of the hit show Parks & Recreation, is perhaps one of the most beloved characters in recent years.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, Justin Hartfield, the bushy-browed idealist who created the platform, started smoking pot around 1997, when he was 13.
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But in "The King" he goes in the opposite direction, starting off as an idealist only to be compromised by the power he must wield.
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Mr. Benante's breakneck drumming helped bridge the gap between metal and hardcore, and Mr. Ian's lyrics vented the rage of an idealist entering his 20s.
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"The bleeding idealist in me always likes to think that there are more things in common between all of us than there aren't," he said.
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He put into pragmatic operation the cooperative gesamtkunstwerk ideals that cantilevered out of German idealist and Neo-Platonic philosophy and 2180th-century cultural utopian Romanticism.
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Reagan, an artsy idealist with white-savior tendencies, grew up in Chicago's posh northern suburbs but needs money to win independence from her overbearing father.
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In his speech, Mr. Gandhi described himself as an "idealist" and said the Indian people were disillusioned by the policies pursued by the Modi government.
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"He started as an idealist but became a professional smuggler," said one top intelligence official in Nimruz Province, who has tracked Mullah Rashid for five years.
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We've seen both versions of the story rolled out for different purposes: framed as an idealist to rally supporters; cast as naive and penitent in court.
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Born George Lewin in 1879, he was called "the most profound idealist I have ever encountered" by his first wife, Jewish-German poet Else Lasker-Schüler.
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Does that sound like an idealist selling out to hold onto the perks of power, or one who keeps looking to fight another day another way?
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There is the hothead, the beatnik, the talented painter, the idealist who defied the rest of her white Texas high school class by staunchly opposing segregation.
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Harris is an idealist, the kind of all-natural farmer whose cows finish on grass, whose birds run free, whose goats and sheep transform overgrown land.
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Berg loops the footage with seven different narrations, each adding a dimension to Josselson's character: agent, victim, independent thinker, political organizer, imposter, idealist, scapegoat, and opportunist.
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The idealist me wants to be believe they'll all be wrong and Apple will surprise us all with an iPhone 25 like nothing we've ever seen before.
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It should come as no surprise, given her family's story, that Kerr's well-known sweetness as a person -- and writer -- was not that of a naive idealist.
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"Until February 21, I thought I was all alone (here)... an idealist and enthusiast willing to produce something no one really needs or knows about," he said.
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It is right and proper to mourn the sudden passing of Peres, an idealist and an honorable man in a political system routinely marred by high-level corruption.
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If your school does not offer any volunteering opportunities, organizations like VolunteerMatch and Idealist can help you find the perfect way to lend a helping hand this Thanksgiving.
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They paid an absolutely extraordinary personal cost, out of duty to country — and, if you want to be an idealist, perhaps a desire to avoid nuclear war too.
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She might be an embittered idealist who joined Cambridge Analytica after years of thankless and poorly paid progressive activism, only to recant after realizing she'd lost her way.
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"I'm not an idealist—I'm an apathist," he insisted, albeit one brimming with opinions and full of contradictions who would like nothing more than to make you squirm.
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"The story deals with Diana becoming Wonder Woman so she starts very pure, very naive, this young idealist who doesn't really understand the complexities of life," Gadot said.
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Perhaps I am too idealist, but I think that this is a step backwards as we strive towards our ideal of a society that does not tolerate discrimination.
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I always had this idealist, kind of my background was always to be interested in utopia, so I was more ... Which was a big thing they were pushing.
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It is an industry full of idealist workers scrambling to cobble together a living at publications owned by a shifting group of cutthroat capitalists and incompetent rich dilettantes.
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In his words, he wanted to provide a way of thinking between the 'tough-minded' scientist and the 'tender-minded' idealist, preserving what is valuable about both sides.
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"This is quite a bitter and hard time for the country, and this is the last time to be this kind of fluffy-tailed naïve idealist," he said.
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Almost as an aside in her book, "The Education of an Idealist", she describes running the Boston marathon in her early 20s (for the first of several times).
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" He breaks down those "prejudices" as follows: "Left Biases: Compassion for the weak, Disparities are due to injustices, Humans are inherently cooperative, Change is good (unstable), Open, Idealist.
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"The moon is the maternal figure, or mother, is in Gemini, which makes Meghan Markle a dreamer and an idealist in the eyes of the royal baby," she adds.
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Most revealing during our exchange was the extent to which, much like me, Obama was by nature a pragmatist—more a foreign policy "realist" than a woolly eyed idealist.
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Snow's description of Mao, then in his early 40s, as an idealist who wanted to save China from Chiang's corrupt autocracy and build a democratic country mesmerised the world.
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Sanders' policy proposal of normalization with the fundamentalist regime ruling Iran is not only counter-productive on realist grounds, it is also immoral and unethical on idealist-liberal grounds.
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This is not to say we don't also need utopian science fiction that points a positive way forward, as well—Star Trek's many forms remain a useful idealist text.
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By the end, she is presenting what amounts to her own film, an account of the life of a German political activist idealist of optimistically expanding vistas and pursuits.
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And Kristen Bush, who glittered in "The City of Conversation" as a ruthless young schemer, now plays the idealist who has to decide how much her ideals are worth.
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When Ross Ulbricht created the Silk Road, a clandestine online drug bazaar hidden on the deep web, he was a 26-year-old libertarian idealist living in Austin, Tex.
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My grandmother always maintained that she had joined the Nazis as an "idealist" drawn to the vision of rebuilding Germany, returning to a simpler time and, perversely, promoting equality.
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The scheming never stops, the alliances shift crazily, an up-and-comer is always promising change and a craggy insider is always bending that naïve idealist to his will.
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The highly semantic and subjective debate over the word "progressive" seems like a fight for the soul of the Democratic Party — between Clinton's realist view and Sanders's idealist approach.
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It's easy for an idealist like me to get sucked in by the effects of new technology and to start attributing some ethical agency on the part of its creators.
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Wifredo Arcay, who spent two-thirds of his life in Paris, and maintained a connection to the 10 primarily through Soldevilla, also shows signs of moving beyond Mondrian's idealist geometry.
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She considers herself an activist, a radical idealist who believes this country and the rest of the planet are about to totally collapse, and incremental change simply will not suffice.
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But since the Democrats largely overlapped on policy, many characterized the race instead as a difference in their tone and style: Northam as a pragmatist and Perriello as an idealist.
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The human spectators are jiggling happily in their seats, and the musicians are... The idealist in me wants to be able to buy everything from small companies and Kickstarter outfits.
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Mr. Roxburgh plays Mikhail Platonov, a former idealist wasting himself on vodka and women, while Ms. Blanchett plays Anna Petrovna, a widow uncertain of her future, who somehow adores him.
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Witnesses said that Dr. Babiker, an idealist from a middle-class family, approached security officials during protests with his hands held high to plead for the evacuation of the wounded.
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In Eizenstat's rendering, Carter was a thoroughly decent, well-intentioned idealist who tackled tough issues like energy, wrestled with economic troubles and advanced human rights, all with drive and determination.
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There's also Samantha Power's memoir, "The Education of an Idealist," which is less about school than about Power's on-the-job evolution as President Obama's ambassador to the United Nations.
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Asked during an event to promote her new memoir "The Education of an Idealist" whether a Senate run could be in her future, Power appeared to leave the door open.
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Clinton makes a play for New Hampshire's famously fickle independent voters by directly attacking Mr. Sanders as a pie-in-the-sky idealist who wouldn't be able to get anything done.
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So he put himself into this incredibly tenuous situation on many levels, and he really did it because he was an incredible idealist … he really believed he could make a difference.
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The Soviet idealist — some would say warlord — took regular swipes at his superiors and had envisioned building his own neo-socialist "Cossack" republic centered in the depressed mining town of Stakhanov.
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Like us, Jeffries was a wild idealist who had a lot of anger about the changes taking place to the land by human beings and how the countryside was becoming lost.
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A San Francisco group, Rebel Idealist, took over the design at the beginning of this year, after the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades pledged $25,000 to support the app.
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This is Lawrence, the man who spends his days walking round London's west end peering into shops, not Lawrence the romantic idealist waiting for the world to arrive on his doorstop.
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It offers a portrait of the artist as citizen-exile, maker-philosopher, idealist-doubter and ethicist to the core — one who understands that love is labor and hope is hard work.
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United States Ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, Samantha Power, examined recent foreign policy challenges in the Trump administration and discussed her new memoir, The Education of an Idealist.
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When Tom, a young idealist in the group, interjects with the line, "We'd all be a lot better off if all three of us were working together," he is largely ignored.
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A disillusioned idealist often overwhelmed by the staggering injustice and entropy of neoliberalist America is perhaps is led to wonder what, in the big picture, is the point of all this imagining?
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That's a shame, because it denies voters a valuable window into how Clinton would govern—not as an idealist or an idealogue, but as a practitioner in the art of the possible.
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Driven by passion, Kennedy became a "pragmatic idealist" who, midway through his only term as senator from New York, had become "twice the senator and reformer" that his brother John had been.
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These works, including the windswept "Night Watch" (1966), on loan from a private collection on the West Coast, strongly suggest Joseph Beuys's scrawled blackboards (though they lack his social idealist (leftist) intent).
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You have to reach out to the idealist who lives in the heart of many a cynical cop, the officer who joined the police to help people and make a better world.
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Throughout The Education of an Idealist, she barely mentions Israel or Saudi Arabia—she says nothing about Israel's occupation of the West Bank or the Saudi war on women and LGBTQI+ people.
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The policies Clinton later outlines in her book are decent, even good, but she makes it clear that she is a realist, not an idealist; fundamentally she believes in compromise and bipartisanship.
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Yes, the ballet's des Grieux changes from a chivalrous idealist into a wracked, tormented obsessive — but nobody hassles him just for being good-looking, as happens to Manon in all three acts.
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He is certainly the quintessential American poet of the twentieth century, a doubting idealist who invested slight subjects (the weather, often) with oracular gravitas, and grand ones (death, frequently) with capering humor.
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But its relative cratering also reflects Ms. Merkel's skills as a political tactician and an often cold-eyed, nonideological policy pragmatist, even as she has sometimes been cast as a liberal idealist.
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Today, Mr. Sanders is being cast as the idealist in the Democratic primary, and it's unclear how much importance will be — or should be — attached to his record as a hard-nosed mayor.
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Now, you could look at that and lament the fact, or you could say 'that's what we need to do, we need to have that level of commitment and dedication to the idealist proposition.
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Now, I realize that most of the show's fans see the narrative in a vastly different light and the protagonist, Leslie Knopes, as the sort of idealist, compassionate, and principled politician Americans should love.
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This is the point in the latest season of HBO's Girls where idealist and intellectual Samwell Tarly becomes completely disillusioned with the politics of academia, yells at everyone in the room, and stomps out.
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An idealist, a charmer, an American rockboy aware of his status as such, Flowers confounds as a frontman; he can't decide if he wants to tell mythic stories or be a mythic figure himself.
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Edward (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, leaning hard on a vocal imitation) is presented as a disillusioned idealist, a serious young man whose experiences lead him to doubt accepted truths and question the wisdom of authority.
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Asking drivers to deliver two laps may well throw up the idealist view of them being on the ragged edge, trying to be inch perfect for twice as long as they need to now.
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In fact, though he served in the Irish Senate late in life, he was, during his years working in the theater, more of a political idealist and reactionary than a progressive or a pragmatist.
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"She was an idealist and would take on the right-wing forces on several controversial issues," said Y.P. Rajesh, an executive editor at the news website The Print and a long-time friend of Lankesh.
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At the time, Obama's caution was seen as a sign of foreign policy realism following the Bush administration's idealist approach to the Middle East, which sparked chaos after the toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
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Their particular endorsement of Corbyn, who proposes a fairer deal for young people though is often derided for being an idealist, makes sense—like them, Corbyn looks to represent a 'voice of the people' persona.
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And of course the thing about Captain Picard is that he's an idealist, and so him losing that faith and then trying to get it back is what I'd like out of a TV show.
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"My mother, who was not a Disney, was a great storyteller, but I'm an idealist, and I think that's the Disney side," Abigail Disney said at the after-party, in the bowels of the church.
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The likable and polished ensemble in this companionable production includes Mark Evans as a leprechaun, Ryan Silverman as a guitar-strumming idealist and the captivating Melissa Errico as the colleen they both adore, quite understandably.
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"I'm a 2-time Olympian, so I'm an idealist when it comes to sports," Ronda says ... while explaining how she bonded with a boxer from Iraq while the U.S. was at war with his country.
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It's all of these small exceptions to Richard's corroding moral center that add up to the colossal transformation of his character, from struggling idealist to an inconsiderate cynic willing to do whatever it takes to succeed.
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He's this realistic guy who's been through a lot and he knows what mankind is capable of doing, and Diana is this young idealist who thinks that the world is very pure, mankind is only good.
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Memo From Germany BERLIN — Last September, Chancellor Angela Merkel was widely seen as an idealist, charitably welcoming hundreds of thousands of refugees to Germany in the face of stiff opposition at home and from European allies.
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Her education was valued and supported by her reformist and idealist parents, her writing encouraged—her father bringing her apples while she wrote up in the garret—during a time when women's writing often was not.
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The tiny idealist buried somewhere within me strives for the manifestation of 'truth'—whatever it may be—in the absence of god, knowing I'll probably never find it (if it even exists), but still striving nonetheless.
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But maybe a lifetime of shouting, idealist tyrants and hard-accented penitents has warped my expectations, because I'm just not sure that the inhabitants of Talos 1 will stick with me over the next few years.
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Mr. Hamon's victory can be attributed at least in part to his image as an idealist and traditional leftist candidate who appeals to union voters as well as more environmentally concerned and socially liberal young people.
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Clinton, the early overwhelming favorite who narrowly won Iowa's caucuses but suffered a major loss to Sanders in the New Hampshire primary, is doubling down on framing her opponent as an idealist who cannot fulfill his promises.
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The likable and polished ensemble in this companionable production includes Mark Evans as a leprechaun, Ryan Silberman as a guitar-strumming idealist and the captivating Melissa Errico as the colleen they both adore, quite understandably (2:00).
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The likable and polished ensemble in this companionable production includes Mark Evans as a leprechaun, Ryan Silberman as a guitar-strumming idealist and the captivating Melissa Errico as the colleen they both adore, quite understandably (2430:24466).
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The likable and polished ensemble in this companionable production includes Mark Evans as a leprechaun, Ryan Silberman as a guitar-strumming idealist and the captivating Melissa Errico as the colleen they both adore, quite understandably (5093:5083).
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Stocky, white-haired and gruff, Ravitch, now 84, is the type of civic macher you don't see much anymore, an urban idealist who has spent his career moving back and forth between the public and private sectors.
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The likable and polished ensemble in this companionable production includes Mark Evans as a leprechaun, Ryan Silverman as a guitar-strumming idealist and the captivating Melissa Errico as the colleen they both adore, quite understandably (2:00).
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It does mean that the standard story of the humble idealist who unexpectedly finds him- or herself in Washington, carried by a wave of encouraging friends in a selfless pursuit of justice and truth, is largely a fable.
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Resources like the PayScale Salary Survey and CommonGood are great for weighing offers from NGOs, and sites like Idealist and the B-Corps Job Board are great for finding jobs with organizations who believe in paying for it.
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I have become persuaded that western thinkers on art do not really understand Arab art because they are always looking for depth and perspective, and lately for the idealist, anthropological, mostly non-visual creations of western Post Modernism.
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The son of a Communist who died at the hands of the Gestapo, Stern was a life-long idealist, a believer in communism, and after the abortive Prague Spring of 1968, a devotee of its more dissident strains.
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Whether you have a specific career goal in mind or are still searching for your professional calling, here are three things Khan says you should consider when deciding what to pursue: "I am personally an idealist," says Khan.
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Former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO, Admiral James Stavridis, said the key to U.S. ties with Turkey was balancing realist and idealist tensions, between the need for a strong, regional NATO ally and drawing attention to human rights.
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His insistent portrayal of Aymeric as an aristocrat idealist—he has a lineage going back to the Viking conquest of Normandy in 911 C.E.—makes the farmer a feudal element well past his expiration date, courageous but quixotic.
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" Fassbender sees that in Sophia too, interpreting her as "a dictator in the making, you know, because she's such an idealist in this world and you find a lot of dictators they start off with this sort of idealism.
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A mother and daughter taking a walk in the woods, sharing thoughts, and the mom — whom we know as a rigid political idealist and killing machine — musing that if she weren't a spy, she'd like to be a doctor.
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Mr Fadel artfully uses a Western source to show that basic concepts like freedom and happiness have one meaning for a liberal humanist and another for a theist idealist who sees the purpose of human life as devotion to God.
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The Education of an Idealist does not account for these social ills, or consider that the only way we can avoid them is by giving up the capacities that enable us (theoretically, if not in practice) to alleviate foreign suffering.
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Forget the twisted plot, wherein the idealist Jean's brother, Martial (Victor Francen), a great scientist and Martial's financier, Werster (Georges Colin) attempt to save the world from the Machiavellian forces of the (unstated but obviously Jewish) wealthy munitions supplier, Schomburg.
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"The idealist in me continues to be surprised, but I know this incident is another result of excessive force and violence-based training for supposed peace officers," said Ilhan Omar, a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, in a statement posted online.
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There are more generalist options such as Monster, LinkedIn, and Glassdoor (which have a mix of sheer volume, reviews, and social networks built in), to more specific ones that cater to age groups, like WayUp, or industries and fields, such as Idealist.
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I was a gifted idealist, and by the time I was this woman's age I would surely be living on a coast somewhere, being paid to write, changing the cultural landscape, drinking gin, and spending the majority of my time without pants.
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While figuring out how to control the emotional whims of toddlers will forever remain a mystery, how we react to our child's behavior is the one thing we can control and apparently Harvey found a simple hack, thanks to The (Reformed) Idealist Mom.
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The work of five young activists anchors this intellectual history of the nineteen-teens: Walter Lippmann's stint as a government propagandist; the journalism of Max Eastman; John Reed's socialist writing; the idealist essays of Randolph Bourne; and the suffragist campaign of Alice Paul.
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In the book, she points out that both Bill Clinton, as the fatherless son from "a town called Hope," and Barack Obama, as the son of a Kenyan father and a white idealist, had capsule life stories that helped them reach voters.
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There's the Hillary Clinton who is and always has been an activist, advocate and idealist determined to advance civil rights, promote women's equality, champion the strivers, and upend the status quo by using the levers of power to effect political and social change.
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This self-evident reality was articulated by writer Octavius B. Frothingham in 1890: The masculine represents judgment, the practicable, the expedient, the possible, while the feminine represents emotion, what ought to be … The predominance of sentiment in woman renders her essentially an idealist.
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Being an outsider, being out of the loop, out of the scene, admiring it from afar, is license to be an idealist, a romanticist, and all of us, deep down, like the idea that art is somehow intrinsically, inherently something that's worth romanticising.
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A technocratic idealist with a sweeping "plan" for every ill facing the country, she tried to split the difference between the Democratic Party's two wings, but she ended up being damaged by the perception that she was not much different from Sanders.
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He played a demolitions expert goaded into committing fraud in "Time for Revenge" (1981); a literature professor who tries to start a new life in "Common Ground" (2002); and a political idealist who organized rural shepherds in "A Place in the World" (1992).
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" He went on, "I was brought up as an idealist; I was taught that all men were brothers, and, meanwhile, in the street, in the square, everything at every step made me feel that men did not exist, only Russians, Poles, Germans, Jews.
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Clarida has taught at Columbia since 1988 and is a managing director at Pacific Investment Management Co. He is seen as a pragmatist rather than an idealist and is well regarded by both conservative and liberal economists, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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In the above video, VICE co-founder Shane Smith sits down with Stice in order to shed some light on what really goes on in Kalu Yala once the cameras stop rolling, and the dueling "capitalist and idealist natures" of Stice's business model.
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Needless to say, neither the "let's do a startup and figure out the hardware later" nor the "let's build a device and figure out the business aspects later" attitude is the right one, but the idealist in me leans more toward the latter approach.
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Even a big-vision idealist like Mr. Licklider could never have imagined that more than 50 years later, we would be telling the internet our deepest secrets and our whereabouts, and plugging in our smartphones, refrigerators, cars, oil pipelines, power grid and uranium centrifuges.
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Given that slavery is already illegal in Westeros, it's not entirely clear what she has in mind in this respect, but Dany is certainly an idealist, and idealism often proves to be an awkward match for a political strategy that's based on flying death machines.
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Judy also has a crusty boss, Ray Hernandez (Alfred Molina), a soured one-time idealist unimpressed with Judy's enthusiasm for a particular subject: Asefa, an Afghan woman in a detention center, who is so drugged up by her keepers as to be practically catatonic.
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Wright was an idealist, steeped in a romantic rhetoric of Art and Democracy, American to his core, intent on reforming the world through an organic architecture that was rooted to place, embedded in the natural world, horizontal in form, and pre-industrial in its rich, handcrafted detail.
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Justin Peters and James Marcus (Tuesday) Mr. Peters, a writer for Slate, discusses his book "The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet," about the activist and coding wunderkind who committed suicide in 2013 while under federal indictment for data theft.
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Donald Trump, who throughout the campaign and the early weeks of his presidency has played the realist to Hillary Clinton's idealist, is suddenly seeking to convince allies and the United Nations that they need to take up arms in the interest of what is right and good.
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He's put money behind a last-minute television ad accusing Arrington of voting for the "largest tax hike in South Carolina history," argued that the voters have given him a second chance and framed Arrington as an idealist who won't be an effective dealmaker in Congress.
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The acupuncturist, Keri Ondrus, 683, has given up on voting altogether; she has taught English in Costa Rica, and was involved in the Occupy Wall Street movement, describing herself as a "total idealist" and ''anarchist'' who feels there must be another way to repair the world.
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Based on Thomas Mallon's 2007 novel of the same title, "Fellow Travelers," set in Washington, D.C., during the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy era, tells a tragic story of two young men: Hawkins (Hawk), a State Department employee, and Tim, an idealist from New York.
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And only an idealist invites his audience to look at the world as closely and deeply as he does as he reminds us that it is only by seeing — really seeing — the world as it exists, that we stand any chance at all of saving it.
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The #GIRLFORGOOD campaign encourages people to upload photos of themselves or their friends and tag them with one of the 20 shade names — you can choose from Believer, Creator, Explorer, Seeker, Peacemaker, Achiever, Influencer, Dreamer, Idealist, Futurist, Activist, Inventor, Lover, Innovator, Visionary, Icon, Leader, Liberator, Protector, and Warrior.
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Nor does she give much thought to the colonial violence that defines American history: In The Education of an Idealist, she recalls inviting a Serbian official to meet with her in the so-called Indian Treaty Room, where she lectured him on the importance of apprehending the war criminal Ratko Mladić.
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Already at war, people there were in need of bucking up, and "Thunder Rock" provided that with its story of a wounded idealist who retreats from a world that is verging on self-destruction, only to have a band of ghosts reignite his spirit and send him back into the fray.
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The idealist spirit, which once drove the Times' David Brooks to criticize Ta-Nehisi Coates' writing on race for "excessive realism"—an extraordinarily telling phrase—typically prevails in American politics for reasons that are often chalked up to the complexity of structural and historical analyses and the public's lack of civic education.
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There are unpersuasive subplots involving a one-afternoon stand between Massive and Joyce (who serves the standard-issue role of the idealist oddball determined to escape the old neighborhood), Pnut's psychosomatic asthma and Mom's scheme to sue the city by presenting her slow-thinking son as a victim of lead paint poisoning.
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What these men have in common is their fascination with Dominique Francon (Halina Reijn, in a scathingly smart and funny performance), a woman of impossible physical perfection, the daughter of mighty New York architect (Hugo Koolschijn) and a vicious idealist who understands that the world was never meant for one as beautiful as Roark.
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But, unlike so many other angry men, he wasn't an anonymous loser; he was a four time world champ, in one of the hardest sports in the world; yet, at heart, he was an idealist, who wanted to be a stakeholder in something bigger than a boxer's rep—the latter day creation of a supposedly true Islamic Caliphate.
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As a young, naive idealist who cared a great deal more about history than politics, the affinity I had for Democrats like the Kennedys, Jefferson and Roosevelt, and even some modern ones, went a longer way in my mind than what I saw as a greatly overlapping two-party system in which association was largely arbitrary.
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It was the same tone he had adopted the day after the primary, when he dismissed the so-called progressive wave that Ms. Nixon's allies had predicted would take him down; and it was the same attack he has repeatedly lobbed at Mr. de Blasio, an idealist compared to Mr. Cuomo and his more centrist pragmatism.
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She has been a pioneer throughout her life, and yet her career cannot be easily reduced to one transcendent myth: she has been an idealist and a liberal incrementalist, a glass-ceiling-smashing lawyer and a cautious establishmentarian, a wife and mother, a First Lady, a rough-and-tumble political operator, a senator, a Secretary of State.
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Yeah, I think I'm like ... it's a total cliche but it's like that hardball old detective or soldier who thinks he's this total mercenary but then, well, it's like Rick in "Casablanca," who ends up, who thinks he's a total cynic but at the end of the day ... well, like I say in the book, inside every cynic lies a heartbroken idealist.
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For this reason, a painting like "Hoover Cock" (2016), a restatement of the 1966 canvas "LAMF" (which, according to the artist, stands for "Like a Mother Fuck" — without the more common "-er" at the end), comes off not as the work of a pessimist but an outraged idealist, even with its hard-to-take invocations of ISIS and Mein Kampf.
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We don't see much of Jack Stone in "The Beach," but the sandals on his feet, along with the careless half-growth on his face, tell a story about a lawyer who's comfortable in the margins — perhaps a grizzled idealist, but for now the sort of workaday guy who trolls the lockup for clients in the middle of the night.
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"She has been a pioneer throughout her life, and yet her career cannot be easily reduced to one transcendent myth: she has been an idealist and a liberal incrementalist, a glass-ceiling-smashing lawyer and a cautious establishmentarian, a wife and mother, a First Lady, a rough-and-tumble political operator, a senator, a Secretary of State," the editors write.
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The Moscow exhibition, which also includes Mr. Philby's favorite pipe and armchair, along with other homey personal knickknacks, presents Mr. Philby as a principled idealist who rallied to Moscow's side — and stayed there – because of his love for Russia and his determination to battle injustice and fascism, a catchall category now used to vilify Ukraine's pro-Western government and new NATO members in the Baltics.
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Every time Ryan talks about patriotism, every time he talks about conservative ideals, the orange face of Trump seems to rise moon-like behind his shoulder — a reminder that this patriot and idealist is supporting, for the highest office in the republic and the most powerful position in the world, a man that he obviously knows (including, one assumes, from firsthand exposure) to be dangerous, unstable, unprincipled and unfit.
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Some of Lebrecht's transitions from one vignette to the next flow particularly well: His account of the revival of ancient Hebrew under the auspices of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, meant to foster a Jewish national consciousness, is aptly followed and contrasted by the depiction of the near-simultaneous creation of Esperanto by the Polish idealist Eliezer Ludwig Zamenhof, who strove to create a universal idiom that would encourage greater understanding among peoples.
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Summary: "Education of an Idealist" is the memoir of former US Ambassador to the United Nations and Pulitzer-award-winning author Samantha Power, detailing her journey from a child in Ireland, to an immigrant growing up in the US, through her Ivy League undergrad and legal education, all the way through her careers in journalism and public advocacy and her time working as a senior advisor to President Barack Obama.
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Underlying all this is an enthusiasm for Mikhail Bakhtin's idea of the carnivalesque, the comic–grotesque traditions of caricature and expressionism as an essential enlivening agency for work that would resist any and all artistic norms: not only formalism and its many spin-offs, but also Pop's corporate spirit, and the equally "cool", perceptual, photo, and idealist realisms that have flourished in America, Europe and the UK from the mid-sixties on.
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Considering that the overwhelming majority of the social sciences, media, and Google lean left, we should critically examine these prejudices: Left Biases Right Biases Compassion for the weak Respect for the strong/authority Disparities are due to injustices Disparities are natural and just Humans are inherently cooperative Humans are inherently competitive Change is good (unstable) Change is dangerous (stable) Open Closed Idealist Pragmatic Neither side is 100% correct and both viewpoints are necessary for a functioning society or, in this case, company.
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"Spring," by Ali Smith, "Friday Black," by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, "These Truths," by Jill Lepore, "On Tyranny," by Timothy Snyder, "Crooked Hallelujah," by Kelli Jo Ford, "Shakespeare's Kitchen," by Lore Segal, "A Burning," by Megha Majumdar, "Man's Search for Meaning," by Viktor Frankl, "Mai Sentita Così Bene," by Rossana Campo, "Book of the Little Axe," by Lauren Francis-Sharma, "Braised Pork," by An Yu, "Epitaph of a Small Winner," by Machado de Assis, and "The Education of an Idealist," by Samantha Power, to name a few.
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Once banned from entering Britain, Mr. McGuinness won a seat in the House of Commons in London; ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Ireland in 2011; visited prime ministers several times at 20103 Downing Street; met Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama at the White House; and shook hands twice with Queen Elizabeth II. "This is the side of his political life that McGuinness wants the Irish people to remember: the reformed man, the young, hotheaded idealist who learned the error of his ways and forged peace, an achievement that still wins him plaudits from around the world," the British magazine New Statesman said in 2011.
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