Those turbulent undercurrent of the soul is the sensitive, talented, tragic and heroic idealism drifting manner.
Rather than keeping their distance, the two worlds of moral idealism and decadent debauchery were constantly in dialogue, often within the same person.
Maybe it's a sign of idealism, in an endearing belief in the goodness in people and the brotherhood of man that makes people trot out their lowest moments like circus ponies.
Now, this idealism doesn't refer to us being idealistic in that we try to build a better world, or, on a lower scale, a working long-term love relationship.
President Obama's Cairo speech characteristically blended idealism with cunning.
Philosophical idealism refers to the idea that there is something outside the material world, on which the material world depends.
It's hard to tell young people that universities recognize that their idealism and energy - and lack of information - are an exploitable resource.
He was full of youthful idealism.
Because of their courage and daring and idealism, we will miss them all the more.
It was not hard, wandering the halls of the symposium, to see a lot of green idealism dressed in business suits.
So, of course, does his idealism.
I am regularly inspired by the good will, talent and idealism of the young people I meet across the world.
But leaders of the environmental movement, and politicians, who aspire to such leadership, might do well to encourage the young to apply their idealism to their choice of career path.
Holding that magenta covered edition, with its odd stains, swollen binding and scuffed corners, triggers a wave of teenage memories of late nights and idealism.
I never appreciated idealism before. Yet I can't accept it.
She blasted away at his false idealism.
This view is sometimes known in philosophy as idealism: all that exists, are minds and their ideas.
Four decades after his death, the visage of Che Guevara survives him as a symbol of passion, idealism, and restless discontent with the status quo. In fact, as time passes, his celebrity grows.
He had found in the minors the soul of baseball — a place where innocence, idealism and romance thrived despite all too often being driven out of the majors by greed and hype.