Their opposition is not based on grounds of Mr. Ashcroft's ability or personal ethics but on liberal idealism.

None, seemingly, have shed the liberal idealism that fueled journeys across an ocean, through Depression and war, and round and about the neighborhoods of New York City.

The Austrian revolutionaries of 1848, flushed with liberal and democratic idealism, swept away the entire organisation.

He showcased his compassion and liberal idealism when he traded on his political connections to abolish the use of mechanical restraints in treatments of the insane.

But by then he had tailored his liberal idealism to cold war Realpolitik.

Brooks's thesis in Bobos in Paradise is that this "new upper class" represents a marriage between the liberal idealism of the 1960s and the self-interest of the 1980s.

Harold is a thin, intense, brilliant, passionate, and occasionally profane man, a unique blend of liberal idealism and practical political skills.

It seemed to many that a truer American spirit of commitment and concern had returned, along with the fervor of liberal idealism and frontierism.

Lewin replaces her with Serena Southerlyn, whose liberal idealism more closely mirrors her own.

Such explanations are all products of liberal idealism, not historical materialism.