as in romantic
having or marked by a tendency to be guided more by ideals than by reality
the starry-eyed notion that international sports competitions actually help foster global harmony
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Some story lines take place in Dallas, where a grownup Bobby (still voiced with gravelly verve by Pamela Adlon) runs a German-Japanese fusion restaurant and gets ensnared in various romantic entanglements.—
Rachel Monroe,
New Yorker,
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Benfica would be the destination to warm the heart above all others, but as was demonstrated this summer, modern football’s market forces generally push players away from such romantic reunions.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
2 Aug. 2025
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Agent deployment is impractical, while VDI introduces performance penalties and complexity.—
Etay Maor,
Forbes.com,
24 July 2025
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Adelman, who will preside over her trial, suggested in the June 18 hearing that the current schedule was impractical.—
Daniel Bice,
jsonline.com,
15 July 2025
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The idealistic and naively optimistic Superman walks right into the trap.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
11 July 2025
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Humanitarian workers—many idealistic and committed—fear that sounding the alarm will end operations altogether.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 July 2025
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There is something utopian about the possibilities revealed by the Tichborne case—for social disruption and reinvention, even though, in the end, Orton was revealed to be Orton.—
Nell Stevens
August 4,
Literary Hub,
4 Aug. 2025
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Otherwise a standard-issue suburb, East Aurora was the home of a utopian Arts and Crafts guild, the Roycrofters.—
Dan Chiasson,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Wish-casting a better result for a confrontation in a different place, Vindman suppresses how much and how often America antagonized Russia through its idealist actions, rather than realist inaction.—
Samuel Moyn,
Harpers Magazine,
16 July 2025
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This, in turn, becomes logically reliant on the idealist paradigm of Consciousness as the fundamental lowest common denominator of reality.—
Carlo Tortora Brayda,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
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“Starry-eyed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starry-eyed. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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