anti-idealistic

Updated: May 12, 2025

Official, legal, parliamentary Italy, the Italy that was anti-Mazzinian and anti-idealistic, stood against all this, finding its leader in a man of unfailing political intuition, and master as well of the political mechanism of the country, a man sceptical of all high-sounding words, impatient of complicated concepts, ironical, cold, hard-headed, practical what Mazzini would have called a "shrewd materialist."

Various - Readings on Fascism and National Socialism : Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado

George B. Foster, the brilliant theologian of the University of Chicago. During his life Prof. Foster had been a man worthy the steel of Mr. Darrow. Not that Prof. Foster was an unscrupulous optimist. He was merely an intellectual whose congenital tendencies were idealistic, just as Mr. Darrow's psychic and subconscious tendencies were anti-idealistic.

Ben Hecht - A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago