Sentences with phrase «false optimism»

Our generation of backlash and resentment is as tempted by despair as by false optimism.

The pastor's problem in public communication is to offer encouragement that takes into account the pain yet will not link easily with false optimism.

Instead of spreading false optimism, they must stand firm and defend their intellectual independence, findings and recommendations — no matter how politically unpalatable,» he argued.

Ultimately, distracting your mind by playing or creating a game is a method you can use to temporarily calm depression's ruthless behavior, and is one that doesn't spout false optimism or tell you to simply cheer up and go outside.

Those who deny that this is the essence of our current state of education reform are uninformed, blinded by false optimism, dishonest or some combination of all four.

Since then, prices of these metals have shown signs of reversing their falls several times, even signalling technical rebounds at times, but in the end proving it to be false optimism.

King first read Niebuhr in his final year at Crozer, and Moral Man and Immoral Society shook him out of the «false optimism» of the sentimental liberalism that was the bill of fare at the seminary, one of the last outposts of the Social Gospel.

It is not idealism or escapism, nor is it false optimism; rather, it represents a realistic approach to eschatological hope.

Hope, as we have emphasized several times before, has an apophatic dimension that cleanses it of false optimism.

Niebuhr serves as an antidote to false optimism.

Martin concludes by examining the effect this «false optimism» has had upon the Church's missionary activity and the New Evangelisation.

He reminds me of Rodgers without all the talk, false optimism and hype of rubbish footballers under his wing.

False optimism, an unwise analytical tool particularly prevalent in the American heartland, has long been a mainstay of Ulster County business.

A commentary slams the «false optimism» around plans to hold climate change to 2 degrees Celsius or less

He contends that scientists and economists must level with the public and stop spreading what he calls «false optimism» that the target can ever be reached.

For all the condemnation of Clinton's speech in the news media, the prosecution team didn't take any false optimism out of the events of August 17.

So the false optimism of the UN cheerleaders is truly dangerous.