It sounds too idealistic, somehow...I thought ideas like that pretty much went out of style two hundred years ago.

I know this sounds idealistic, but hope is our only option.

I know it sounds idealistic, but a girl can dream, can't she?

It sounds idealistic and silly, but we want it to be a global citizen's home page.

It may sound idealistic, but this is my chance to be idealistic and use my art to help other people.

All of which, I would argue, sounds impossibly idealistic.

He is afraid that to Freddie it will all sound naively idealistic, and rather nebulous.

"I know, it sounds pretty naive and idealistic, doesn't it?"

"I don't mean to sound idealistic, because it is not," Mr. Junger said.

Now she sounds a lot more idealistic, even ideological, than we've heard before.