Sentences with phrase «utopian dream»

Finally, I have called for the nourishing of utopian dreams of a perfected social order to shake us loose from our obsolete ideas and idolatrous loyalties and to open us to the images and ideals appropriate for the coming era.

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.

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

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

Finally, while biopolitics is set within a goal - oriented framework which stresses the importance of utopian dreaming as a catalyst of social change, it must not lose sight of the power of evil in human life and history.

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.

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.

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

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.

History, the modernist utopian dream, is consciously repeated a third time.

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].

It is time to move beyond utopian dreams, or overwrought efforts to goad unions into good behavior, and to recognize that labor strife may be the birth pains of real school reform.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

How have we allowed Trumpism to utterly displace King's utopian dreams?

While that sounds like a bright and utopian dream, you know how our planet works.

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.

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

Society needs to be safeguarded from two utopian dreams» that of justice without freedom and that of freedom without truth» because both, as John Paul wrote, «portend errors and horrors for humanity, as the recent history of Europe sadly attests.»

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.»

«What I want instead,» Manent says, «is to understand»: society as it is, he maintains, is more interesting than any utopian dream.

The danger is that much of the old order is lost while little of the utopian dream is realized.

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.

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.

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.

I wonder if the utopian dream below will ever be realized.

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.

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.

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.

The great danger in our utopian dreams of community is that they lead us to want association with people just like ourselves.

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.

Would like to meet someone and someday settle down but being gay and Muslim that seems like an 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.

Among the many twists in the delicious plot are a scam involving a forgery of the first page of The Scarlet Letter, a disturbing revelation that takes place in a sperm bank, and an impossible, utopian dream of a rural refuge.

In this modern, post --- Bretton Woods world of «monetary order» and coordinated central - bank inflation, many who are otherwise sympathetic to the arguments against central banks believe that the elimination of central banking is an unattainable, 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.