Sentences with phrase «utopian fantasy»
The phrase "utopian fantasy" refers to an idealistic idea or dream that is impractical or impossible to achieve in reality. It describes a vision of a perfect world that may seem wonderful but is not feasible or realistic. Full definition
She introduces representations of Utopian fantasies into her objects that call upon notions of familiarity and public desire filled with physical and ideological tension.
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Inspired by art from the Renaissance period through the 19th century as well as utopian fantasies of the future, «The Strange City» represents the synthesis of a long artistic career.
«Caution will not win the day; but nor will Jeremy Corbyn's leftist utopian fantasy, devoid of connection to the reality of people's lives.»
When the progressive vision of a society free of racism and sexism takes on the dimensions of a coercive utopian fantasy, it is time to reread the temptation of Eve (serpent to Eve: «And what are Gods, that Man may not become / As they...?»
The resulting paintings represent a balance between the surface's undeniable physicality, a longing for wilderness, and a touch of my own West Coast utopian fantasy.
Kurland's method combines a documentary process with romantic idealism, giving her images a naturalism inflected by utopian fantasy.
His delusions fit the regime's utopian fantasies so well that a generation of scientists accepted them as fact, or at least said they did, so as to stay employed, and alive.
It evokes the unabashedly utopian fantasy that people had seen before.
To the extent that they steer clear of utopian fantasy, they are worthy of time and energy.
ED BALLS has slammed Jeremy Corbyn saying his Labour leadership style is a «leftist utopian fantasy» and also revealed his frosty relationship with Ed Miliband.
They live in an unreal world of utopian fantasy that has no basis in Christian faith.
Equality of wealth is a utopian fantasy whose hopeless pursuit usually leads to tyranny.
In a world of huge bureaucratic governments and highly regulated bureaucratic economies, calls for «free markets» are little more than Utopian fantasies.
Utopian fantasies and exaggerated dreams of national greatness agitated millions in the twentieth century, providing legitimacy to communist and fascist regimes.
Although noting that power ultimately corrupts the militants, historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. reminisced that he and fellow black students at Yale loved the film as a utopian fantasy that offered them a realistic path — infiltration, then transformation — for social change.
In many ways, the movie is a utopian fantasy.
Machines That Think duly confirmed for me that there is precious little that is new in our current debates and that we have been rehearsing these anxieties (and, conversely, utopian fantasies) for a very long time.
Paolozzi's early collages of kitchen gadgets and household modernity were utopian fantasies of tomorrow and founding classics of pop art.
Existing global narratives about the future tend to be either dystopian visions of collapse and hardship, poorly articulated pathways to utopian fantasies, or stories that overestimate the power of conventional strategies to create real change.
Local conservationists opposed to industrial - scale solar might be chasing a utopian fantasy — ubiquitous rooftop solar — and seriously underestimating the risk of failing to increase solar capacity quickly enough.
The world is a utopian fantasy, full of folks who all seem to get along without prompting from anyone.