idealist's

And your response is, as I said above, an idealist's rant complete with pleas to the heartstrings.

Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

And your response is, as I said above, an idealist's rant complete with pleas to the heartstrings.

Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

That a two-state solution is not the figment of a naïve idealist's imagination.

Queen Rania of Jordan: The Hard-Line on Grocery Items 2010

Kirn's is one idealist's stirring recollection of what it took to awaken himself from the sloth imposed by the Ivy League's bureaucratic-meritocracy.

Anis Shivani: The 10 Best Books of 2009 2009

Packs of foreign tourists might not fit an idealist's vision of a perfectly preserved rain forest.

Safaris And Sensitivity 2008

But then perhaps I'm being too cynical and shouldn't go around bursting this poor idealist's bubble.

One plane-ride away from pretty: Mothers Day in Iraq 2008

They were an idealist's words that made sense as a lofty philosophy.

Shaman's Crossing Hobb, Robin 2005

His philosophical work as a whole may be regarded as a committed idealist's effort to understand the place of finite individuals in an infinite universe, a theme that Royce captured most succinctly in his Gifford Lectures title, "The World and the Individual."

Josiah Royce Parker, Kelly A. 2004

The Federation has learned it's lesson from the Borg well: the universe is not an idealist's paradise after all.

Against the Japanese Grain Buruma, Ian 1991

Suspended exactly at the Zenith of the energy sheet that was the sky, it shone down on the undulating landscape of a world that seemed to be the materialization of an idealist's dream.

Starless Realm Ernsting, Walter 1976