Sentences with phrase «utopian life»

However, Amm can continue working on the tradition of modernist art, on the inconsistencies and loose ends, and, devoid of any pathos for progress, exploring afresh - Utopian life models.

Or had we been transported to a Utopian life system where cells and organs sprouted with shameless fecundity?

His best performance to date, however, can be found in Jonathan Glazer's Sexy Beast, where Winstone plays Gal Dove, a retired thief whose utopian life in the south of Spain is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a venomous old associate.

The Source Family was a radical experiment in»70s utopian living.

It's about a group of young backpacker travelers experiencing utopian living on an deserted tropical island in Thailand.

The exhibit, which investigates experiments in utopian living through the colony, is abstractly based on Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, the community's under - recognized matriarch and her relationship to nature, spirituality and the failed vision she had for herself and her family.

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I've observed hundreds, maybe thousands, of people over the years and hear from new ones practically every day who, like those unfortunate chefs, insist on living in a utopian, make - believe world where:

I think early Christians invented that as a scary - sounding disclaimer because they were always talking about how utopian heaven is and how much life on earth sucks, so they didn't want anyone getting any ideas.

My father was a lawyer and used his own life as an argument in court against his idea that it was utopian and that we couldn't build a compassionate world or business structure because he did it.

One of the most fascinating episodes in contemporary literature of the healing, life - giving power of touching occurs toward the end of Aldous Huxley's utopian novel Island (Harper & Row, 1962).

The utopian nature of globalism insists on the possibility of multiculturalism, which is to say people of different cultures living in the same place while maintaining their distinct identities.

n the Grimms» world, evil may rule, but there is also the utopian promise that with a sense of right and wrong, plus some magic, one might be able to live happily ever after.

They live in an unreal world of utopian fantasy that has no basis in Christian faith.

In his review of Pointing the Way Niebuhr suggests that Buber's thought becomes utopian when its illuminating insights into personal life are applied to the relations of the «we» and «they» of organized groups or nations.

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.

30 Considered as regulations for the conduct of daily life these maxims are utopian.

In contrast, the neo-Freudian Erich Fromm becomes quite unrealistically utopian in his hope for the «sane society» of reasonable men, and he never asks where the individual can find in present history the community which can sustain the spirit which must live in this threatening and imperfect world.2

The local habitation for much of his life was Salem, Massachusetts, with important chapters elsewhere: as a boy along the idyllic shores of Lake Sebago, Maine; as a student at Maine's Bowdoin College; as a young idealist at the Brook Farm Utopian community west of Boston (1841); as a married man in Emerson's Concord (1842 — 45); as a summer neighbor of Herman Melville in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts (1850); as a mature writer and consular official in Liverpool, England (1853 — 58); and as a traveler and resident in Italy (1858 — 59)-- before a final period of ill health and death in Concord (1859 — 1864).

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.

6 The utopian element appears where men believe in the creative eruption of forces which are capable of meeting the new demands of life.

THE THEOLOGY WHICH CAN BEST SERVE THE CHURCH IN ITS MINISTRY TO THE SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE WILL TAKE THE FORM OF CHRISTIAN BIOPOLITICS — A UTOPIAN APPROACH TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE QUEST FOR A DESIRABLE FUTURE, WHICH TAKES AS ITS CENTRAL THEME THE FULFILLMENT OF LIFE WITHIN THE TOTALITY OF THE NATURAL, SOCIAL, AND TECHNOLOGICAL SETTINGS OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.

I can only give expression to my own intuition that this possible emergence of a new consciousness should be given shape by a utopian vision of a planetary brotherhood at peace with nature and with God, united with all of life in the enjoyment of its potentialities.

The church has set up programs of social justice, preached utopian ideals, adopted resolutions, urged charity, proclaimed good will among men; but neither the progressive impoverishment of the life of the many nor the growth of the privileges of the few has been stayed by its efforts.

Conservative preaching included such mundane topics as work, family life, and church programs; but they were treated in terms of utopian visions — getting rich, always being happy, finding the perfect church.7

If heaven is the ultimate utopian paradise, why do religious people cling so fervently to life?

It's utopian in the bad or nonselective sense to romantically believe that people once — in the polis or the medieval village — led noncontradictory or perfectly integrated lives.

People can not live without the prospect of a future, and so utopian musings, sometimes of the most unrealistic nature, have always attracted followers.

In their view, the end of times would be heralded by a cosmic visitor, the «son of man» who would cause the dead to rise bodily from their graves and live in a Utopian post Apocalyptic kingdom here on Earth.

Its best analysts — such as Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Conquest, and Alain Besançon — agreed in calling it an «ideocracy» because of its inhuman effort to govern according to utopian ideological criteria almost wholly disconnected from the lived experience of humankind.

It may be, however, that only the implementation of a utopian vision, a holistic reason that unites subjectivity and objectivity, will make human life in the 21st century worth living

Robert Bellah is a social scientist who outwaits current fashions and lives with and by a vision even when it may be dismissed as utopian or misguided.

Denominations make utopian statements about their openness to all, but the lived reality is different.

It is a gathering place for spiritual seekers who are fulfilling their vision for a utopian society and imbibing and implementing a style of life that its adherents believe can change the world.

I'm an enthusiastic pro-European for all of the arguably naive, utopian reasons you might expect a bourgeois lefty who lives in North London to be.

The project with the utopian - sounding title of universal credit (UC) will, Duncan Smith promises, «put hope back where it has gone» and «give people from chaotic lives security through hard work».

Just like the Living Wage (which also came from Citizens UK) our suggestions were initially ignored or refused as utopian and unworkable.

«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.»

«I always admired the reconstruction of this utopian world where dinosaurs and humans live together,» Hendrickx said.»

It's fairly clear that the village itself represents Shyamalan's vision of a Utopian society; even the mysterious creatures that live nearby aren't considered much of a threat, provided nobody travels into their domain.

Downsizing (* 1/2) Filmmaker Alexander Payne (Sideways) and writing partner Jim Taylor turn the quirk factor up a notch and forget to add substance and emotion to this one - joke movie about a couple (Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig) that wants to follow the trend of downsizing into 5 - inch humans and living in a private utopian community.

These deliberate imperfections make it more Star Wars than Gene Roddenberry's utopian vision of 22nd century life.

Titled Equals, it centers on two people who live in a «utopian» society where emotions are outlawed.

That the utopian unity of the musical ultimately fails to unite the characters in this regard points to the inadequacy of Hollywood myths in regard to the lives of real characters.

During the hippie days of the late sixties and early seventies some people tried a different way of live in communes as did the utopian communities in the 19th century.

From the elder the teen receives some startling secrets about the utopian society in which they live.

Functional enrichment of utopian distribution of plant life - forms.

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The main characters did not engage me at all nor did the descriptions of Arcadia, the Utopian community in NY where Bit and his parents lived.

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