emotionalist

noun

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as in sentimentalist

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  1. romantic
  2. idealist
  3. dreamer
  4. ideologue
  5. Don Quixote
Noun
  • This attempt to coax a conventional romantic through line out of the madness doesn’t really work, partly because Reitman and co-writer Gil Kenan have otherwise done a fine job of making clear how unconventional this whole situation was.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • However, the hopeless romantic in me is not one to say no to a wedding!
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 18 Oct. 2024
Definition of romantic
Noun
  • The diary belonged to Lam Ping-yu, an ambitious and patriotic idealist who was born to a well-off Chinese family in Indonesia in 1911 and eagerly joined his home country’s navy.
    Peter Guo, NBC News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • For instance, his call for all Bitcoin mining to be located in the U.S. rubbed certain crypto idealists the wrong way, as decentralization and immunity to governmental pressures is a key part of the ethos of crypto mining.
    Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 17 July 2024
Definition of idealist
Noun
  • The pitch was simple—for us, by us—and over time the gathering has ballooned into a magnet for all sorts of dreamers, many of whom also realize that there is power in the collective.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
  • On this road, loneliness becomes the defining characteristic, separating dreamers from those who merely exist.
    Colby B. Jubenville, PhD, Forbes, 6 Nov. 2024
Definition of dreamer
Noun
  • Those ideologues would have varying opinions on China.
    Johanna Costigan, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • His National Labor Relations Board was laden with anti-labor ideologues.
    Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of ideologue
Noun
  • And once again, our two heroes — recast as Don Quixote and Sancho Panza tilting at wind turbines — struggle to reconcile the myths that men write for themselves with the realities that life is actually willing to offer them.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Where: Don Quixote, 2811 East Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles When: 8 p.m. – 2 a.m. October 31 Admission: Tickets start at $33.85 at eventbrite.com. 18+ with government ID; costumes encouraged.
    Holly Alvarado, Orange County Register, 8 Oct. 2024
Definition of Don Quixote
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