Sentences with word «idealism»

For Forman, Milda's parents — a pushy, overprotective mother and an indifferent father, collapsed in front of the television — represent the young lovers projected into the future, as the romantic idealism of youth gives way to the glum pragmatism of middle age.

In doing so Simmons» work complicates notions of idealism as they have been illustrated through the representation of the human presence in the landscape and throughout art history.

I read Coleridge's Aids to Reflection, the poet - philosopher's rehash of German idealism, of which I had then read nothing.

Youth is a time for idealism and high energy.

Implicit biblical support for democracy does not come from happy idealism about every man's worth or his capacity for sound judgment, rather, it flows from sober realism about every man's tendency to sin against his neighbor if he can get away with it.

The film depicts the unsentimental embrace of youthful idealism in the backdrop of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 and the mundanity of postgraduate life.

The difference is not between idealism and realism, nor between moral purity and moral compromise.

Sullivan's projects are driven by a mischievous fascination with and defiance of this kind of preciousness — a desire to parody and contaminate the staunch forms of Modern idealism by teasing them into absurdity.

Much else, though, is obvious indeed, like billboards from Barbara Kruger (Blind Idealism Is Reactionary Scary Deadly) and Kathryn Andrews (Beyond This Point You May Encounter Nude Sunbathers).

It's hard to say, let me repeat for emphasis, that this view of freedom is an alien importation of Hegelian idealism into our country by the Progressives.

Since then we have mostly overplayed our hand, overstated our expertise, and outspent our moral authority by a considerable margin as we morphed from idealism to policymaking.

But Underwood found his spiritual authority more in the academic ideology of rationalism than in the dark mystery of a crucified Messiah; his final vision is a rather flat social idealism in which the academic world is adulated.

In the Preface to Process and Reality, after having stated that his philosophy is a recurrence to pre-Kantian modes of thought, Whitehead asks if his cosmology is not a transformation of some main doctrines of Absolute Idealism onto a realistic basis.

As the title Liberty Matter suggests, Choksi's exhibition touches on idealism, the idea of liberty, and the concrete reality of matter.

Nevertheless, there is a powerful fund of moral idealism among Christians.

Even for many who grew up too late to have experienced them in person, it combines the modernity of the space shot — a moment later than the elevated train but just as specific — with the lost idealism of the Kennedy era.

Whitehead is speaking out of a high idealism when he says, «it is the blunt truth we want».5 Usually it is the last thing we want.

That's not idealism.

Christian faith is not the same as religious idealism; the Christian life does not consist in developing the individual personality, in the improvement of society, or in making the world a better place.

For political realism as for philosophical idealism Evil was not a very serious matter.

Epistemological realism is entirely compatible with metaphysical idealism.

With the United States declaring itself the world's militarily - enforced morality behind a Texas cowboy and his insular retinue of yee - haw Major Kongs, there is no better entertainment to tickle that identification nerve in the public at large than this dark, dank portrait of modern life as a series of compromises against idealism made in the name of male bonding through rites of gun love, violence against brown people, and the steady acquisition of flashy cars and flashier women.

According to its press release, «Black Eye» examines the «new idealism forged from the millennial mindset which highlights the definition of «self» as a limitless, layered and wonderfully fragmented whole.

Warren Beatty's bizarre Howard Hughes biopic / sex comedy / look at idealism gone sour boasts four credited editors (including Paul Thomas Anderson regular Leslie Jones and Terrence Malick veteran Billy Weber), adding to the narrative that the director didn't know what kind of movie he wanted to make and wound up with a mess.

Wide - eyed idealism doesn't buy you much currency if you don't know how to translate it into results - oriented action in the real world.

Christian idealism needs to be balanced with Christian realism.

What ultimately turned the tide in a direction which could accommodate theological thinking to the evolutionary view was a resurgence of personal idealism which purported to see the entire process of evolution, animal as well as human, in the context of a cosmic drama presupposing a Creator God.

You might expect a gallant band of radicals, keeping alight the flickering candle of liberal idealism through these dark ages.

We are realistic problem solvers, able to balance idealism with pragmatic solutions.

Prints by founding members Alfredo Hlito and Manuel Espinosa represent the aesthetic goals of the group, a style of Argentine constructivism animated by utopian idealism and Marxist politics.

She touches on the North's mixed record of high idealism, negligence and outright cruelty regarding the contraband (slaves who came within Union lines) and vividly illustrates the moral dilemma faced in war by pacifists who were also ardent abolitionists.

Paradoxically, the critique of idealism also puts way too much faith in design as a solution.

In situations of cultural cynicism, prophecy may have the function of reviving old idealisms.

Incorporating a sense of idealism through opiate colour schemes, the images are shot in Gran Canaria, revealing brightly lit beaches and bleach white structures contrasted by encroaching black shadows.

Although the connections with German idealism seem to be most obvious, White - head confesses that he has not read Hegel at all.

But to take it seriously for just a second, it misses an opportunity to turn idealism about the world coming together to solve its biggest problem and instead turns it into more of cinema's biggest problem: empty - headed spectacle.

Their artworks embody an attitude that is simultaneously critical and nostalgic, in which the optimistic idealism of technological progress is countered by a disenchanted skepticism.

Labour's Paul Flynn, who was re-elected to Newport West, said: «I would like to say how thrilled, exhilarated I am about the welling up of idealism among young people.»

Furthermore, the status of the eternal objects» as identical to that of the «abstract entities» entails a middle course between a Kantian subjective idealism and a naive realism.34

Neither is the distinction between visible and invisible church as idealism makes it, that is between the actual and the ideal church, a tenable one.