rosewater philosophy
English
Noun
rosewater philosophy
- A sentimental belief system, ignoring harsh realities.
- 1870, Benjamin Leopold Farjeon, Jessie Trim:
- I subscribed most heartily to this rosewater philosophy. Certainly, if Jessie had had her way, there would have been no heartaches in the world; no poverty, no sickness, no rags, no rainy days.
- 1971, Catherine Marshall, Beyond Our Selves (page 194)
- This is interpreting Christianity as a rosewater philosophy to make a comfortable atmosphere for nice peope[sic]. But nice people have no cutting edge. Nor have they any answers for the problems that beset our world.
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