Meanings of great idealist in English

Yes, truly he was a great idealist.

He sees himself as a great idealist and patriarch, a saver of souls, a fount of liberal ideas and good intentions.

He was the great dreamer, the great idealist, a vague shining figure before the girl like the cloud in the Hebraic Myth.

All these testified to the great qualities of their host, who besides being a great idealist was also a very practical man too.

So far from being a realist, he is the greatest idealist of all.

One of the last great idealists of the avant garde rubbing shoulders with its arch cynic?

Roosevelt is the greatest idealist in American public life since Lincoln; but his idealism, like Lincoln's, always had a firm, intelligent, practical footing.

In the person of humanity's greatest idealist, the highest joy of the soul was set in the framing of one of nature's brightest scenes.

Until now too much prosperity, too much mammon, too much "at ease in Zion" has certainly prevailed for another band of great idealists to appear.