Mr. Coblence speaks of his own motivations in the most glowing, idealistic terms.

Mr. Morris casts his story of the campaign and the work of a campaign consultant in idealistic terms.

The song mentions none of these by name and describes them in literary idealistic terms rather than strictly biographical form.

Some see the job in idealistic terms, as the most effective way they can make a contribution toward cleaning up the city.

Pangloss says that his problem is love, which he then describes in idealistic, poetic terms.

While there are few details in the novel of how this system actually works, it is described in idealistic terms:

The poem concludes by envisioning a realm like that of the Kingdom of God in physical, not idealistic terms:

But Levine talks about it in tremendously idealistic terms.

He himself has not always described his motives in such idealistic terms, so the speech was a chance to hit the reset button.

Some saw the loss of face in slightly less idealistic terms.