Sentences with phrase «turn idealism»

Still, the Guggenheim puts Malraux's imagination right there on the walls, as if to turn his idealism upside - down.

The means for change, however, are «Ciceronian» in the resistance of turning idealism to formula and ideology and in the long - lived embodiment of sentiment.

«Like other young generations before them, they are idealistic,» says Jean Case, CEO of the Case Foundation, «but what sets this generation apart is they are turning their idealism into action.»

Not exact matches

This inspiring book follows Adam Braun, the founder of Pencils of Promise, and how he turned $ 25 into over 250 schools by combining a for - profit business approach with social sector idealism for an idea known as «For - Purpose.»

By turning John F. Kennedy» the embodiment of pragmatic, rationalist, results - oriented anticommunist liberalism» into a mythical figure whose idealism could never be recaptured, the hagiographers helped undermine the confidence in progress that had once characterized the liberalism of Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Kennedy himself.

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.

And when the current beliefs come, in their turn, to look silly, a new set will be invented, so that the immemorial madness may continue to wear its customary mask of legality, idealism and true religion.

They turned out to be based on erroneous information (weapons of mass destruction) and a dreamy idealism (democracy)» there was and is much to criticize» but the arguments for war in 2003 were articulate and admitted of just war analysis.

«Richards helped turn what might once have been seen as a beleaguered public service agency into an easy target for the anti-institutional idealism of a younger generation of pro-lifers.»

Yet if, so understood, Bradley's work can be seen as the axis which, in the Anglo - Saxon world, turns nineteenth - century German Idealism and empiricist sensationalism into the twentieth century, it is Whitehead who firmly inhabits the new age, establishing the structural model of the process of feeling in the place of any attempt to provide an original or final Real, or a center or privileged locus for the nature of things.

In this American play, saving the planet has never been so deceitful as two «eco-scam artists» turn Obama's green idealism into a moneymaking swindle.

It turns instead into something far more ambitious: a meditation on generational compromise, on how the idealism of the 60s died in the 90s, pinning the blame not on a vast right wing conspiracy, but on the old hippies themselves.

The original 1960 Broadway production of the musical version of the King Arthur legend by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe was a smash hit turned cultural touchstone, associated forever with the idealism and youth of the John F. Kennedy.

The Docks of New York (1928), the simplest, most delicately visualized and most perfect film of the set, is the turn - of - the - century bowery answer to Sunrise, with a romantic idealism fighting its way out of hard - scrabble lives and resigned characters of the waterfront culture.

Surprisingly enough, for all of his self - expressed idealism, he turns out to be as naive a materialist as one would expect from someone who has found his own moneymaking formula.

Like other onetime upstarts turned powerful Silicon Valley behemoths, Google is being forced to confront the idealism that guided the company in its early years.