Sample sentences for VISIONARY

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a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible;
or: a person with unusual powers of foresight;
or: not practical or realizable; speculative

You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes

And then Jackie Kennedy takes on the same visionary tone of her husband.
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard -- Killing Kennedy
He looked at me for a moment, and his gaze was distant, visionary; it was the face of someone else.
Elie Wiesel -- Night
There might also be, say, a few visionaries: men above the immediacy of their time who could think historically.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
Peking looks upon him as a visionary, a great patriot who works slavishly for Mother China, you might say a saint.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
Such a visionary, and so...dead.
D.J. Machale -- The Merchant of Death
He's a visionary, and he had a vision for what Duck Commander could be.
Phil Robertson -- Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander
You will now, without fear and with unfeigned pleasure, enter our visionary world.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
They were branded, however, as theorists, visionary idealists, purists, talkers of academic nonsense, weepers of crocodile tears.
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
But of course we visionaries do rather get beaten.
Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
He had deceived himself with his visionary schemes and "led his family into a state of living which I fear his means will not bear him out."
David McCullough -- John Adams
I made that wild escape into something visionary, and have slowly found out how wild it was.
Charles Dickens -- Hard Times
The first two groups — the Innovators and Early Adopters — are visionaries.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
So my report was about the threat of Communism, the Chinese Army, how MacArthur was a visionary, that Truman should have listened to him.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
He needed not to be philosopher, or visionary, but simply artificer.
Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
These three visionary characters possessed a mutual knowledge of the missing document.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
But the visionary little maid on her part, beckoned likewise, as if to say—"This is a better place; come thou into the pool."
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
Shaking hands with a visionary middle-aged nobleman.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
Forget visionary woe, and think only of real happiness!
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
But, however, I shall so far do justice to this part of the Academy, as to acknowledge that all of them were not so visionary.
Jonathan Swift -- Gulliver's Travels

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