Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-confidence about his professional prospects even as he continues to question his identity and religion. But he also professes to have tempered his desire to make it to the White House--a desire that dates from his discovery of John F. Kennedy at age 8. One current career ideal is to be an intellectual/politician in the Winston Churchill/Daniel Patrick Moynihan mode...
...sense, these films, so dependent for their success on mastery of movie technique, represent one of cinema's purest forms. And all action movies may aspire to be judged not on the basis of how well they imitate life, but on how well they imitate the genre's ideal form--a Road Runner cartoon...
...ideal drug stops some virus enzyme from working but doesn't interfere with normal cells," Haseltine says. So, the more doctors know about how the virus works, the more opportunities they have to stop it from functioning properly...
...Ideally, the American populace ought to be informed, interested, and yet unemotional about its political issues. For a democracy to function, its citizens must care enough to participate but must be willing to defer to the wisdom of the majority. Of course, we do not live in an ideal world, and whatever cause holds our attention must necessarily hold our emotional interest as well. What we must guard against, then, is letting our emotions rather than our intellect guide...
...even though the two groups actually did share the stage at a critical moment in history. Smith, who is half Pueblo Indian, has a good grip on the Southwest, a region that drew many artists and intellectuals decades before J. Robert Oppenheimer suggested Los Alamos, N. Mex., as an ideal research and engineering site for the Manhattan Project. Ground zero on July 16, 1945, was more than 150 miles south of Los Alamos at a spot designated Trinity. Hundreds of years earlier, Spanish explorers named the place Jornada del Muerto, Dead Man's Journey...