Sentences with phrase «liberal idealism»

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

But his big speech fell flat with some pundits after the foreign secretary eschewed details about exactly what he wants from Brexit in favour of passages about the liberal idealism of John Stuart Mill and jokes about dogging and Thai sex tourism.

Romney is a «retro - conservative» promising «a return to normalcy» in the way President Harding declared in his inauguration address in 1921 after the eight years of energetic liberal idealism of the Woodrow Wilson presidency.

«There are some Christians,» he wrote, «who feel a certain satisfaction» a kind of Schadenfreude» at the sudden collapse of the liberal idealism of the nineteenth century and the loss of hope in the future of modern civilization.

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It requires one to renounce the arrogant rejection of God's world that many liberals, particularly young ones, call by the name of idealism.

The white, liberal audiences that watch The Landlord root for Elgar because, like him, they (we) believe that their idealism and distant sympathies can somehow make the world «colour blind».

Tom O, Whether that is a conscious desire of the (Greens, Liberal Progressives or «Environmentalists») all of whom are patently idealist, and idealism can very easily lead to fascism, I Wholeheartedly agree with you that the consequences of fulfilling [their] desires and aspirations will lead to an inequality of living standards, not only never seen before, even under the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, but may become a cause of species differentiation for Homo sapiens, with The Blessed enlightened ones controlling Everything.