idealistically

idealist | American Dictionary

idealist
noun[ C ]
us/ɑɪˈdil·ɪst, -ˈdi·ə·lɪst/
a person who values principles above practical behavior

idealistic

adjectiveus/ɑɪˌdi·əˈlɪs·tɪk/
She sacrificed idealistic dreams for conventional reality.

Examples of idealist

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It challenges the idealists as well as the realists and complicates the idea of present perception by placing its trigger in the past.
It was a theorist of the nation who did not embrace romantic or idealist tropes who linked the new nationalism to a consolidated central state.
It seems likely that his challenge can only be met by a new generation of ' idealists ', untainted by the disillusioning experiences so acutely analysed here.
Brutally condensing complex thought, idealists focused on the moral unity of a society with individuals organically related to each other.
An idealist is essentially risk-loving with respect to the achievement of the ideal.
The induced institutional innovation model employed in my work embraces and challenges both the idealist and the evolutionary concept of institutional innovation.
For the extreme idealist by contrast, the imperative is always to move towards the relevant ideal.
The outcome is a well-crafted book whose central arguments are grounded in the theoretical and methodological assumptions of ' idealist ' international relations theory.
We know that "realists" would applaud it, and "idealists" would repudiate it.
To me this statement appears as a departure from materialism; it is actually close to the idealist view.
In the history of science and philosophy, the world has been regarded as material, mental (idealist philosophy), or dualist (both material and mental).
I think it is a mistake to try to turn a materialist philosophy into an idealist one and continue applying the same name to it.
He may in fact have been an idealist, whereas others were (at least to some degree) opportunists.
Their internationalist rhetoric was, therefore, part of their reinterpretation of national identity, rather than an expression of idealist internationalism.
Recently, there has been an increased idealist orientation within the group, with structuralist ideas as a major source of inspiration.
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