How To Use Meliorist In A Sentence
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What Orwell offers by way of contrast to all this is a meliorist localism in politics and economics.
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No question but the novelist would have welcomed as a convincing proof of her 'meliorist' doctrine the progress made in her own homeland in the century since her birth.
Recent Developments in European Thought
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However, there is another option, often adopted in the liberal mainstream, which is based on a meliorist view of progress, and in principle always leans in the pacific direction.
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Fortunately, the Communists in the Federal Writers 'Project were in their Popular Front phase and all for the meliorist New Deal, so their presence, while provoking conservatives in Congress and making life difficult for writers such as Wright and for Project administrators, ultimately did not diminish the guidebooks' quality.
A Stimulus Deal for Writers
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Rejecting the quest for absolute certainty, it takes a meliorist attitude that human action sometimes can improve the world.
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Excerpt: In practical terms, "Conservation of IQ" is used to argue for limits on immigration, against various meliorist attempts, and possibly even for eugenics.
Schlesinger Obit, Samurai Vader, IQ Scarcity, Floyd/Bee Gees Mashup
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One needn't be a global meliorist to contest her charge.
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A pessimist in contemplation, he remains a meliorist in action.
Little Eyolf
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Walter Lipmann, a columnist who wrote in the middle years of the last century, called himself a meliorist.
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Capitalism and collapse: contradictions of Jared Diamond's market meliorist strategy to save the humans [A book review from: Ecological Economics] by R. Smith
In the Week of the Economic Circus: Which Way Recovery?
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That soul who is Kyu in the first story (and Kokila, Katima, and so on thereafter) is combative, imprudent, and prone to getting himself (or herself) killed; while Bold (Bihari, Bistami . . . ) is more comfortable in the world, meliorist and optimistic.
Archive 2008-10-01
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But while her virtue and courage are not open to question, her judgment is, and points to the limits of a meliorist approach to evil.
Matthew Yglesias » Helen Suzman
