Sentences with phrase «own utopian dream»

His pep talk sounds one part mad scientist — Frankenstein grafting a funny bone onto his melancholy monster — and two parts utopian dream.

The utopian dream of the free thinkers from Santa Monica to Riga and Tel Aviv of an anonymous community Digital Autonomous Organization, DAO currencies, managed by the membership will not happen on any significant scale while central banks exist.

Each idealist in Peoples Temple was being carried by the driving force of his own personal utopian dream, which developed the momentum of a locomotive, and all Jim Jones had to do was switch the track toward the abyss [quoted in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, July 24].

No stranger to Christianity, Stoen was seeking the fulfillment of a kind of utopian dream.

Breaking a ten - year silence about his own experience, Stoen stated last July that «what made Jim Jones a historical figure was his genius in giving the utopian dreams of idealistic people a tangible structure for expression.»

Notwithstanding the utopian dreams of today's globalists, there is no reason to assume that present migrations will yield different results today.

Hope for our society lies in the possibility of the rebirth of visionary thought, utopian dreaming, the resurrection of the split between present and future that provides the dynamic of change in the direction of projected ideals.

Magic, play, and utopian dreams are the foundation for his future community of faith.64

Much remains to be said in detailing and defending the value of utopian dreaming, but this chapter must come to a close on a note of realism.

These are the goals of a Christian civilization, imperfectly realized, to be sure, in any society but sufficiently manifest in Europe and America to make it evident that a Christian democracy is not merely a utopian dream.

Martin Malia suggests that it is the lingering desire for a utopia on earth that leads so many to resist condemning the Communist project; to do so might force them to forsake the utopian dream.

And yet, ironically, the authors of the book — along with François Furet, Arthur Koestler, and George Orwell among others — were at one time themselves men of the left who were tempted by the utopian dream.

Then there is the tacked - on conclusion: that all of American politics, ever since the Progressives, has been a dispiriting and disappointing enterprise, precisely because, for better and worse, it has not lived up to the Progressives» utopian dreams.

68 Thus Niebuhr once again argued against both the utopian dreams of those who sought to flee from the historical process into a timeless realm and those who were too optimistic in their interpretation of history.

One reads November 1916 in the eerie awareness of what is to come, which makes all the more pitiful and ludicrous the liberal posturing of the politicians and the utopian dreams of the revolutionary terrorists, each of whom has a plan for using the bloody war with Germany to realize his ambitions.

Yet if the United States can not divorce itself from the world, neither can it indulge in utopian dreams that fuel expectations of sustaining American dominance on the cheap.

Thus the danger: What was once a noble venture has become a temptation to a false transcendence, one that involves a utopian dream of public life governed by moral universals rather than political wisdom.

I believe there is a particular need at the present to focus attention on utopian dreaming as a way of shaking us loose from obsolete ways of thinking and opening us up to those ideas, attitudes, and values that are appropriate for the future.

It is realistic wisdom and eternal vigilance, not utopian dreams, that may guide us through these rapids.

In this respect the Utopian dreams of social justice in which many contemporary socialists and anarchists indulge are, in spite of their impracticability and non-adaptation to present environmental conditions, analogous to the saint's belief in an existent kingdom of heaven.

If everyone (a utopian dream) did their bit AFC would feel the pinch eventually and perhaps revise the strategy for growing the «brands» audience.

As our report finds, this is not a utopian dream.

The group said the recent statement by the Central Bank of Nigeria's governor, Godwin Emefiele that the current economic recession will end before December was a utopian dream.

On Sunday, «Tomorrowland,» the $ 150 million sci - fi saga inspired by the utopian dreams of Disneyland founder Walt Disney and one of its park rides, was pulling away from «Pitch Perfect 2» after the two movies went into Saturday neck - and - neck.

Perhaps, when utopian dreams fail — as they do, over and over, in Moon Brow — the only appropriate response, to borrow one of Nabokov's timeless phrases, is laughter in the dark.

Perhaps, when utopian dreams fail — as they do, over and over, in Moon Brow — the only appropriate laughter, to borrow one of Nabokov's timeless phrases, is laughter in the dark.

It's where intrepid European settlers first began arriving in the 1800s, building fishing villages, clearing farmland and seeking to fulfil utopian dreams.

Less than five minute by boat is Puerto Sandino, where experienced surfers can carve 15ft +, 100 meter long waves: a Pacific utopian dream.

For less than a five minute boat ride to Puerto Sandino, experienced surfers can carve 15ft +, 100 meter long waves: a pacific utopian dream.

As their hometown metastasized and Brasília started to rise, São Paulo artists such as Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto painted totally abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues in the former's case, cascading black - and - white stripes in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new Brazil.

However, the building was never constructed, and existed only temporarily in model form — a Utopian dream of a reality that was only ever destined to become a fantasy.

Presented as an interrelated set of experiences, the exhibition (until 25 September 2016) weaves together concerns about land, architecture, progress, utopian dreams, inequality, trauma and resistance that refer as much to imagined futures as to the historical past.

«Wholeness is not a Utopian dream,» Anni Albers wrote at Black Mountain.

His work confronts the failed utopian dreams of modernist aesthetics and investigates contemporary social reality as well as the techniques of mass media.

Stripping away any sentimentality, people and furniture, I built paintings with formalist concerns — part sterile environment, part utopian dream — with an emptiness that was strangely inviting.

It is about how culture — objects, languages, ideas, utopian dreams — endure across centuries, although sometimes only in the form of fragments or ruins or memories.

Nachman's work is a meditation on utopian dreams and the erosion of human experimentation.

But, she sees herself as a mediator who strikes a balance between the economic necessities of the market and the utopian dreams of artists.

It acknowledges our jaded taste for luxury while arousing utopian dreams.

«I use landscape painting to explore the utopian dreams of Chinese history, from past collectivization to new consumerism,» explains Ji, who was trained in Song Dynasty (960 — 1279) landscape painting.

In 1966 he became a founding member of the Archizoom Associati, a group of designers who embraced the fall of modernism to uncover the reality hiding behind an urban utopian dream.

At the Walker, utopian dreams of peaceful and diverse living are illustrated by Superstudio in a suite of proposals for environments to create better life and death experiences, but they are difficult to realize in practice.

The happy convergence of avant - garde art and revolutionary politics is a utopian dream nowhere more celebrated than in the creative foment of the Russian Revolution.

I feel very lucky that I can realize my utopian dreams and still survive.

The juxtaposition of the Ti — khor with the tigon is an intriguing comment by the artist on the meeting of the Museum's past with her own utopian dream for the future.

Arranged in a rectangular grid in the shape of page, the holes suggest a strong ending, as if the book has closed with utopian dreams of a perfect society.

At an «Earth Summit Alternatives» conference held during the proceedings, he stated: «Economic central planning was a utopian dream, but it became a real world nightmare.

Indeed, emissions are rising so rapidly that unless something radical changes within our economic structure, 2 degrees now looks like a utopian dream.

We have to learn what's urgent, and what's important, and that sometimes they do not coincide... We need more than just a bunch of utopian dreams and small - scale horizontal projects.

The entire power base of the Coalition seems wedded to a utopian dream from the 1960s.