sentimentalist

noun

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as in idealist

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  1. idealist
  2. romantic
  3. dreamer
  4. ideologue
Noun
  • Whitehead has said that Elwood and Turner represent the two parts of him, the idealist (Elwood) and the cynic (Turner), whose intertwined perspectives inform his own view of race as a Black man making sense of contemporary America.
    K. Austin Collins, The Atlantic, 13 Dec. 2024
  • 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
Definition of idealist
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 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
  • International architecture and international cooperation are viewed with skepticism as mechanisms for free-riders and ideologues to push the United States.
    Frank Lavin, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2024
  • That’s part of the idea behind the movie, was trying to understand how people can become corrupted by these charismatic ideologues who are really narcissists.
    Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of ideologue
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