dystopia

How To Use dystopia In A Sentence

• Like the novel, it portrays Gilead, a dystopian society not too far in the future.
• Cui Jie's dystopian scene from 2011, "Bar," also evokes the painterly eeriness of German artists Gerhard Richter and Neo Rauch. China's Rising Art Stars
• Re: and where dramatically fewer children grow up in poverty, is somehow obviously a dystopian nightmare. Matthew Yglesias » McConnell Warns of American Dystopia — More Equality, Less Poverty, Longer Life Expectancy
• Not all of his admirers were fully aware of the satirical or dystopian aspects of his work, however.
• Part of what's called the dystopian genre, "Hunger Games" is set in a bleak futuristic world where the government forces teens to fight one another to the death as their parents look on, airs the battle on television and calls it a national holiday. Dr. Harold Koplewicz: Understanding Why Teens Love Disaster, Distress And Dystopian Lit
• For instance, George Orwell almost called his dystopian masterpiece The Big Bad Book Blog
• It's all packed into this two-hour dystopian space odyssey. Times, Sunday Times
• The outcome of the book, while almost overwhelmingly dystopian, is also the most fascinating perspective on the nature of humanity in a very long time. Are There Any SF/F Books You Could Not Finish?
• Doing a PHD in social networking (and stints at Yahoo) would make Danah forecast 'social network fatigue', but her dystopian Desperate Housewives meets their always-on kids in the gootube bazaar is so funny it must be true - Class will be split into private mean girls cliques and interspersed with child star bonaduces, security guard gary coleman playing net nanny, and Marcia Cross tubd spankn vignettes. "Forget dirty laundry, we're talking a full inversion of the house."
• Either the valorization of accumulation, profit, and the subjection of human beings to mechanistic systems will wind down into the sort of dystopia so widely and lavishly depicted to scare us witless; or we will awaken from our trance, take a deep breath to dispel the catecholamines, use our big neocortices to recognize that we still possess the resources, intelligence and skill to enact a redemptive vision—and then do it. Annals of The Culture of Politics: Tea and Empathy