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• a  of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of the reality of ideas
• s  of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style

• Gandhi was idealistic, quirky, quixotic and determined, a cross between a saint and a ward politician; like the best crossbreeds, he managed to distill the qualities of both and .
• This idealistic programmer seeks to bring open-source software to the masses.
• In an idealistic corner of the computer world, there is a breed of benign engineers called open-source software programmers.

• ideal
• exalted
• elevated
• sublime
• grand
• high-flown
• high-minded
• lofty
• rarefied
• rarified
• noble-minded

News & Articles

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• Is Costco Secretly A Social Enterprise?
  In the labor-pinching world of retail, it just might be. “I just think people need to make a living wage with health benefits,” Craig Jelinek told Bloomberg Businessweek , a practice which "puts more money back into the economy and creates a healthier country. It’s really that simple.” Those idealistic thoughts on economics may sound like they were uttered from the lips of a labor activist ...
  June 14, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine
• My Say On Blu Ray: ‘The Newsroom’ Season 1
  Idealistic is perhaps the best word to describe the HBO political drama that takes audiences inside the workings of a fictitious newsroom.
  June 13, 2013 - CBS Sacramento
• Metropolis 2.0: Here's the World's First Zero-Carbon City, Now Underway
  Photo via Inhabitat With so many bonkers, never-going-to-actually-happen plans for future cities—air-borne amoebas or stone piles, anybody?—it's oddly refreshing to come across an idealistic pop-up city that, you know, actually exists. In real life. Such is the case for Foster...
  June 13, 2013 - Curbed

Quotes

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• Wesley Snipes in International Herald Tribune
  I am an idealistic, naive, passionate, truth-seeking, spiritually motivated artist, unschooled in the science of law and finance,Snipes said.
• Lee Hamilton in Guardian Unlimited
  That's a very tough policy problem, and in order for this to happen, it can't be pie in the sky, it can't be idealistic, it has to be pragmatic,former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
• Scott McClellan in Chicago Tribune
  McClellan says Bush's main reason for war always was "an ambitious and idealistic post-9/11 vision of transforming the Middle East through the spread of freedom."