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  • s  unrealistically or naively optimistic
    a starry-eyed reformer
    starry-eyed idealism

  • A couple of years ago, some starry-eyed technology pundits--myself included--announced the dawning of the age of free municipal wi-fi networks, when every American city would have .
  • Back when starry-eyed inventors dreamed up airborne contraptions, not online social networks, a teenage visionary named Peter Leroy built an aerocycle in his parents' garage and .
  • If entrepreneurs' starry-eyed projections are correct, by 1986 revenues for the entire industry could top $500 million.
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  • Brendan Nelson in Sydney Morning Herald
    Whilst Australians are perhaps no longer starry-eyed about Mr Rudd and realising that he's full of it, I would think you would expect in this environment that the Government should win the seat,said Dr Nelson who will visit the seat again...
  • Richard Pombo in Concord Monitor
    GOP Rep. Richard Pombo of California, a co-sponsor of the amendment, said lawmakers wanted to "send a message over the wall of the ivory tower of higher education" that their "starry-eyed idealism comes with a price. If they are too good - or...
  • John Howard in NEWS.com.au
    His letter actually alleges that evidence has been provided of complicity by the government. Now that's wrong,Mr Howard told Australian television last Friday. "Let's not get starry-eyed about the Americans, they're going in hard to...

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