How to Use idealistic in a Sentence

idealistic

adjective

• The Girls on the Bus (premiering March 14 on Max) can, and that accounts for a large part of its idealistic appeal.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 12 Mar. 2024
• The White Rose was short-lived and never counted more than a few dozen members, most of whom were young and idealistic.
  — Alan Cowell, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Of course, that idealistic picture was just a veneer even then.
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
• Google’s quest for new revenue streams has led it to a place where so many of the once-idealistic tech giants seem to have wound up—at the Department of Defense.
  — Brian Merchant, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2022
• This equinox will encourage this idealistic sign to visit new places and learn new things.
  — Bianca London, Glamour, 22 Sep. 2023
• At the time, this project did not feel naive, idealistic, or radical, let alone seditious.
  — Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2022
• On both sides, spirits were high as idealistic youngsters signed up for 90 days in their crisp new uniforms.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 15 Feb. 2022
• Leonie Benesch stars an idealistic teacher who tries to uncover a thief within her school and sparks chaos in the process.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 23 Dec. 2023
• The scene crawled with idealistic creatives and the gatekeepers with enough money and connections to make dreams come true.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 20 July 2023
• This is not the idealistic son of a housekeeper from Guatemala who accomplished so much in his career.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• The latter was no less idealistic for being a product of the racial paternalism of its day.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 6 Feb. 2024
• In the weeks since, the regime has killed hundreds of peaceful protesters, among them many children and idealistic young women.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 29 Oct. 2022
• To be clear, these questions aren’t the idealistic wails of a newcomer to Tolstoy, nor should they be construed as Tolstoy’s own.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• The staffers were largely young and idealistic, and many felt that the company was helping the world’s worst polluters repair their image.
  — Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• The most important thing is that there is an idealistic view of society.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 July 2023
• And Garfield played Ralph Berger, Bessie’s idealistic son.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• At the same time, the idealistic Twitter employees tasked with fixing its flaws have been fleeing.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• Now set in a dystopian near-future, the idealistic Antigone goes head-to-head with her aunt, Creon, amid national crisis and war.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 24 Mar. 2022
• But Sidney quickly reverts to his idealistic instincts and agrees to back him.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• Many of them are still idealistic and hold a lot of reverence for public service and for what this place represents.
  — Pablo Manríquez, The New Republic, 3 Nov. 2023
• Scully’s voice was what baseball was supposed to sound like, at its most idealistic and idyllic.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2022
• Laughlin — whose beverage of choice is milk — is nervy and idealistic.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2023
• Gallego is not idealistic about the business of politics, nor about the people within it.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Feb. 2023
• Lane plays Noodle, a precocious but jaded orphan who teams up with the idealistic Willy to make magic (and chocolate, of course).
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 20 Dec. 2023
• In Oates’s retelling, Kopechne is an idealistic woman named Kelly, who spends the book suffocating in the car, which the senator has abandoned.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
• Microlending used to be a trendy topic in idealistic tech circles, and a constant trope at TED and Davos conferences.
  — Jaron Lanier, The Atlantic, 26 May 2022
• This is a story about a young woman who felt an idealistic impulse to serve her country, and how her country crushed that idealism.
  — David Klion, The New Republic, 5 June 2023
• Pops, who was in equal measure idealistic and shrewd, saw a growing appetite, among white listeners as well as Black, for his message songs.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• At its most idealistic, Burning Man represents all those and more.
  — Kimberley Mok, Treehugger, 8 Sep. 2023
• There’s a longstanding friction here between an idealistic push for progress and a nostalgic pull toward the past.
  — Laila Lalami, New York Times, 30 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024