How To Use Utopian In A Sentence

Digital technology comes to us heralded by a great deal of utopian ballyhoo, but in some surprising ways it discourages creativity.
But again, perhaps problematically, they are beautiful statues – inspiring, optimistic, and utopian; totems to the radiant future that was always promised, but never quite arrived.
But to Mr. Robin there is no actually existing Burkeanism anywhere, making those who cite the ideal of a reasonable, pragmatic, nonreactionary conservatism guilty of the kind of utopianism the left is more commonly faulted for. NYT > Home Page
Let me emphasise the point that the establishment of such a society is not some kind of utopian dream.
The criticism of our time ... is indissociable from an investigation and experience of its transcendental field (s), of the (impersonal) tendencies and haecceities which traverse it, as well as the potentialities, utopian ones perhaps, with which our present can be composed. The Skeptic's Field Guide

He rued that they were hijacking his Utopian concepts to unleash "a free-for-all fucking epidemic".
Ordinary politics adds to these familiar ideals a further one that has no distinct place in utopian axiomatic theory.
As ever, the utopians and cynics have both jumped into the fray.
Venice as a city has seemed irrelevant, a storied artifact of a Romantic past that serves merely as a decorous backdrop for an event geared toward utopian futures.
As Hewitt has suggested, feminist utopianism, like symbolic interactionism, seeks to create new conceptual spaces in which radically different ways of being can be imagined and in which different distributions of power, including sexual power, can be conceived (Contemporary 17-21). Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillies Comedies
He proposes that we read the novel's valorization of failure as its way of preserving the possibility of a utopian future.
Over the last two decades, predictions about the social effects of the Internet have ranged from cybernetic anarchy (both utopian and distopian) to the instantiation of a fascistic regime of surveillance that would make Orwell look like a piker. Discourse.net: I'll Be Speaking in London on Nov. 17
One needn't indulge utopian fantasies about abolishing government corruption or dealing a death blow to the power of monied interests in politics.
This time there is no grand strategic vision to work toward, no utopian ideals.
Released in 1627, this utopian novel was his creation of an ideal land where "generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendor, piety and public spirit" were the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of Bensalem. Archive 2009-03-01
Nor is it merely the fact that they are swimming against the tide of Modernism with its utopian sense of inevitability and its flagship aesthetic of reductive minimalism.
The Egyptian hieroglyph for ‘city’ was a circle surrounding a cross; but squares and grids were always the more favoured geometry of utopian planners.
All apocalyptic and millenarian ideologies ultimately converge on the utopian transformation of the body through suffering.
It was a time of struggle, but it was also a time of utopian hope.
Shakespeare thus places himself between utopian totalitarians and libertarian fundamentalists.
Marx and Engels distinguished their scientific socialism from what they termed the utopian socialism of some other socialist trends. WN.com - Articles related to EXCLUSIVE - Europe gets first glimpse of solar, windfarm plans
If strategy games and Utopian architectural proposals schematize the operation of the urban realm into an abstract diagram, what can gaming and architectural representation teach us about how we might "play" the city? Serial Consign
These cooperators were not utopians, but rather male heads of households seeking to make it to old age without upsetting the status quo.
And the obnoxious rantings of certain techno-utopians border on the asinine when they don't cross it. Journalism: product v process (Blog for Democracy)
Alaska, the particular reality from which Palin hails, is so little known by most Americans that she was able to freely mythicize her state as the utopian last refuge of the "hard work ethic," "unpretentious living," and proud self-sufficiency. The New York Review of Books
The phrase belongs to the utopian narrative Looking Backward: 2000–1887, by the American socialist Edward Bellamy. The English Is Coming!
To ask dictatorship to be democratic is utopian.
Rather than supporting the statusquo, the way things are, utopian ideologies advocate a complete change in the structure of society.
This chapter introduces the main ideas of Utopian socialism at its primary level, especially the Utopian Socialism in 19th century which was used as the main source of scientific socialism.
Utopian rhetoric about worldwide democratic capitalism is being replaced by the more pragmatic project of globalisation in one country.
A complete absence of national border controls is as utopian today as the vision of world government.
Priestley left his home - what was left of it - went to London, and in 1794 emigrated to the banks of the Susquehanna River where he and other intellectuals tried to set up a utopian community (Pantisocracy).
The first five stanzas of the poem consider the possibility of this Utopian, undifferentiated unity the opening lines propose.
It is unfair and unjustifiable when the tax payers who pay for these utopian benefits are faced with worthless private pensions or no occupational pension at all.
Socrates, the fearless Utopianism of Plato, the ambitious encyclopaedism of Aristotle, mark the dawn of a new courage and a new wilfulness in human affairs. The Pivot of Civilization
But he too must perish, for life is a continuous process, and humanity an old man, refusing to be decompounded and rebuilt to the linear utopianism of the dreamer and theorist, come out of the silence with his ideal to be foisted on unregenerate society. Leonid Andreyev: 1871-1919
`I'm researching an article on New England utopian communities. DOUBTING THOMAS
Utopian lines; there will be no illiterates unless they are unteachable imbeciles, no rule-of-thumb toilers as inadaptable as trained beasts. A Modern Utopia
In many Utopias, including that of Sir Thomas More and the Utopian communities of William Lane in Paraguay, divine peace and justice would only be achieved by a strong central authority with the power to oversee all aspects of society.
Thomas begins with recent neo-Kantian studies of the aesthetics of melancholy, and applies these ideas to a number of case studies, chiefly the bucolics of Virgil, the eclogues of Miklós Radnóti, and the utopian lyrics and music of Bob Dylan.
The young Karl Marx criticised the utopian egalitarianism of the German socialists' Gotha programme by saying that socialists had to accept that good workers would expect the appropriate rewards, but would also expect the problem of shirkers and poor workers to be addressed. Teachers, stop being so defensive. It's time to embrace the no-excuses culture | Will Hutton
Geddes was not Jewish, but he was very familiar with the Old Testament and was committed to Utopian ideals that could be applied to the new Jewish homeland. The Bauhaus Moved to Tel Aviv
Babichev, who personifies the purblind utopianism of the Communist regime, cuts a truly grotesque figure as the votary of social planning, epitomized in his quest for the perfect mass-produced sausage.
The director, one gathers, wants a Paris Commune purified of all its difficult and perhaps unpleasant associations, a kind of utopian model to hold out to today's radical protesters.
Although modernism has its share of utopian dreamers, many artists of the past century have instead celebrated the fragmentary and the glimpsed.
They somehow convinced themselves that their particular utopian dreams were what Scotland could become. Times, Sunday Times
Establishing a utopian society in the wilderness is a foundational concept within American ideology.
His was a utopian vision of nature in its purest form.
And as much as we might admire her deep-rooted hatred of collectivism, her philosophy is still just another utopian dream, a transvalued Marxism.
Were they courageous visionaries, or romantic utopians?
The setting is Baku in 1920, in the last tortured months of a brief utopian period in that city when people of all nationalities and religions lived in harmony.
Ask most people what they think of when they hear the word Bauhaus, and they're likely to come up with tubular steel furniture, prefabricated housing, ranks of naïve utopians and WN.com - Articles related to AOL Revamping Its Logo, Hoping to Revive the Brand
Again, the philosophers have been charged as utopians and shallow optimists.
Utopians might expect that the auto makers will offer countless octane-stingy hybrids and zero-emission fuel-cell vehicles to a public seeking to wean itself from all addiction to the cursed internal combustion engine.
The concept of web-based applications is great in a Utopian society where everyone has easy/fast access to data. Steve Jobs hates the App Store | FactoryCity
The positive metaphors of harmony and strength afforded by the utopianism of the machine aesthetic were countered by negative metaphors of alienation.
The attempt to act in accordance with a system of ideas is invariably denounced as ideological, fanatical, utopian or millenarian.
It has been fashionable in the last twenty years to suggest that there was in ancient history a utopian matriarchy.
The utopian, 'greenie' self-deceived BBC ignores the negative evidence about wind farms, which Christopher Booker and others have exposed, e.g. JUST SO MUCH WIND..
The Utopians helped some of their neighbors get rid of their tyrants, and the neighbors, seeing what great ruling Utopia had, asked the Prince if they could have magistrates rule over their own countries.
The brave new integrationist impulse flourished for a time, in the post-war utopian heyday. The Times Literary Supplement
Justice is utopian and unrealistic. Christianity Today
Utopian enthusiasm promises enlightenment and community but it also risks exploitation, depersonalization, and megalomania.
The strategy developed by the revolutionary populists reflected the same mixture of heroic struggle for the peasantry's cause and utopian illusions.
The novel's plot describes the decimation of masculine culture necessary for women to create a non-patriarchal utopian society.
Sadly, web utopians will just have to accept that the internet is ultimately no different to that previously-hailed great leveller: the printed word.
This utopian sentiment, patently present in the banausic sentimentality of lyrics in popular music, combines with the notion of uniform moral space to render the specificity of religious and political roles opaque.
After a couple of years in New York state discovering he was also not meant for farming, in 1825 Ainslie arrived at the newly founded utopian commune of New Harmony, Indiana. American Connections
The last part explores the values and significance of the characteristic of grotesqueness of network literature from its grotesque features, that is, unofficial, legal and Utopian.
Internationalism is not simply a utopian ideal, but an urgent practical necessity.
The idea of a classical republic inspired a tradition of thought which, overtaken by the new politics of reason of state in early modern times, was preserved largely in the writings of philosophers, utopians, and pamphleteers.
Utopian movements in the 19th century found expression in a number of ways, most notably as cooperative societies and through anarchism and socialism.
One expects them to be capable of imagining another, better future - a Utopian moment, a visionary book.
The move to Downburn has often been likened by the narrator to the end of World War II austerity and the first flushes of utopianism. MUSIC FOR BOYS
And they offer an interesting case-history in paradoxy: utopian commonwealths often proved so persuasive that their paradoxical character gave way before their didactic function. LITERARY PARADOX
Liberalism is, therefore, utopian; it tolerates no regime but itself.
The "big mansion" or "The Oneida Community" is well-known because it once witnessed a legendary history: the experiment of a Utopian communist life.
These books are an indictment of uncompromising, fanatical, and utopian ideology.
#2 They will help you achive your moneyless utopian society. The Draft: Who Pays the Price?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
If we took the loopiest, most moonbeam-addled Californian utopian internet bullshit, and held it up against the most cynical, realpolitik-inflected scepticism, the Californian bullshit would still be a better predictor of the future. Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform – the numbers don't add up'
It has often been argued that Marxism is largely based on a utopian ideology, functionalism on a ruling ideology.
In the process of understanding, the realization of socialist ideology and understanding of the leap from the utopian socialism into a science.
There are both the inevitable contact and the hypostatic differences between the theory of harmonious society of Marx and Engels and utopian socialism.
In other words, modernity has become critical of modernism and of its own utopian absolutism.
To put it another way, in the peremptorily utopian style typical of official Chinese directives as well as of educationese the world over, the nation’s schools must strive “to build citizens’ character in an all-round way, gear their efforts to each and every student, give full scope to students’ ideological, moral, cultural and scientific potentials and raise their labor skills and physical and psychological aptitudes, achieve vibrant student development and run themselves with distinction.” SWEATblog: April 2007 Archives
While mainstream US sitcoms paint a picture of a utopian world where everyone wanders around in skimpy clothing with permatans and oodles of cash, Little Britain had no qualms about portraying us as a nation of weirdos.
Progressive reform aims to move ahead toward an ideal or utopian future.
The director, one gathers, wants a Paris Commune purified of all its difficult and perhaps unpleasant associations, a kind of utopian model to hold out to today's radical protesters.
However, these utopian dreams were soon subsumed by the demands of the Party, which held a more totalizing conception of art.
It's something that utopians like to forget in their deathless faith in the perfectibility of man.
Mere arguments about ‘sustainable use’ may be more of a utopian ideal than a possible reality.
Dropping out was the great weakness of the sixties utopians.
When Frank Lloyd Wright dreamed up Broadacre City-his utopian idea for semirural metropolises -- he declared the architecture of each should grow out of the character of its region. A SENSE OF PLACE
We had too many utopian ideals force-fed to us to believe that the EU is the answer to all our problems.
Gillmor outlines a utopian world of media meritocracy, where a blogger with a tiny readership can compete on equal terms with the New York Times or the BBC.
That group expressed Utopian hopes for small-farm settlement, and hatred for the squattocracy.
His ideas on equality are viewed as utopian in the current political climate.
Such a defense of incipient and emerging realities can give us confidence in crediting Baillie’s work with utopian functions. Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions
However, a utopianism that has shrunk to the dimensions of survivalism is perhaps part of the problem rather than its solution.
Thus, the proponents of local self-government have been cast in the role of reactionaries or Utopian dreamers who fail to understand the principles of modern government.
Together, they fuel what Page DuBois calls ‘an allegorical, utopian call for tyrannicide in the name of postcapitalist, postpatriarchal future.’
His ideas on equality are viewed as utopian in the current political climate.
That Bolshevism was foul baboonery was obvious to any but the most ardent and simple socialist utopian. Eraser Wars | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
The mutinous crew sailed back to Tahiti, whence some of the members, accompanied by a number of Tahitians, migrated to Pitcairn's Island and established there an Utopian colony.
He was committed to utopian politics which sought to create a human society informed by the highest artistic ideals.
A general, happy mediocrity was almost the utopian ideal. DEVASTATING EDEN: The Search for Utopia in America
Or is he really the utopian dreamer of an utterly open and connected world? Times, Sunday Times
The seminar's topic was Renaissance utopian literatures, focusing on More's Utopia.
In 1968, who would have believed it possible that the left would be home to the dreary old ‘realists’ while the right would be full of utopians?
It is not only radical utopians, however, who feel inheritance is unjust, but also conservatives have argued that inheritance stifles the entrepreneurial capacity of capitalism.
A deeply divided political class nourished a range of conflicting and often utopian ideological goals.
How can utopians dream of changing the world when it is so difficult to lose an inch off one's waistline?
Would they brainwash and indoctrinate me with utopian, sci-fi visions of an alternate reality?
utopian idealists
His utopianism was reflected in his wife Mary's novel, Frankenstein—albeit in a dark mirror.
She prefers to skewer her opponents on the end of a rapier wit, whether it's bolshie feminists, exploitive therapists, or madcap utopian dreamers.
Rural community autarchy, even if it were an acceptable aim, is a Utopian dream.
This is a personal essay about the last decade or two of my life as a novelist, about how and why my books have so often been about environmental issues, and about how the recent paradigm shift in climatology, recognizing the reality in the past and probably the future of abrupt climate change, became a central feature of the new trilogy of Utopian novels I am writing. by David Brin. 18 Non-Fiction Essays by Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
This alternative to capitalist globalization, of course, sounds very utopian.
The artist's interest in utopian societies and the ways in which architecture can reflect belief systems inspired these organic yet repetitive drawings. Spotlight On Melissa Manfull's Mystic Geometry On View At Taylor De Cordoba, Los Angeles
It is just the kind of thing the utopians in government wanted to try to alleviate, yet they have made it worse.
Nevertheless, while he pursued this utopian conception, he also saw in the course of history the configuration of its crises and impasses.
The exhibition features detailed but unrealised designs for futuristic new ways of living and utopian ideals of the perfect living space.
The intellectual, like the utopian, is constantly attacked for obscurantism.
In fact, we think she's a Utopian sent to foment unrest within the Confederacy.
Platonov, however, is hardly a conventionally realistic writer, since the nature of the post-Revolutionary world is that history has ended and reality has been upended, replaced by a heady brew of utopian anticipations and nightmarish premonitions. Deals
Every era has its utopian movements that hold out the promise of social perfectability.
Utopian socialism is the elementary form of the socialist view.
Like all totalitarians I was a utopian - I knew that things would get better if we could only get rid of certain people.
The Utopian ship yawed hard to port in an attempt to evade the incoming ordnance.
Criticism of utopias that slight either collective or personal dimensions is the starting point from which David Harvey calls for a comprehensive “spatiotemporal” or “dialectical” utopianism. Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions
During her residency, she began a series of paintings that merge these distinct terrains: the melding of ancient histories with architectural utopianism.
The positive metaphors of harmony and strength afforded by the utopianism of the machine aesthetic were countered by negative metaphors of alienation.
In this nostalgia for community some would discover utopian impulses, others would decry imaginary fulfilments as ideological.
Gone were the utopian dreams of the thirties. Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America
a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man
The textbook of Principles of Marxist Philophy (HEP, 2002-2007), edited by Wang Ruishen, etc. says that Robert Owen was a French utopian socialist in the 19th century. This is a common mistake.
From séance to cryonic suspension, efforts to extend life indefinitely have been foolish, utopian and cruel. Never Say Die
There was no stopping the free-market utopians ' cultural momentum, in part because the crisis was quickly contained and the paper boom roared on.
There are some who say that making a single, borderless online community is a utopian ideal worth pursuing.
Students, passionate idealists by nature, but in a different camp from the old-school utopians, were most sensitive to the faults of their society.
How can utopians dream of changing the world when it is so difficult to lose an inch off one's waistline?
We will no longer be able to count on human nature to serve as a source of resistance to radical utopians because human nature will become more malleable.
Thus so called Symbolic Exchange turned out to be a rootless utopian fantasy.
A complete absence of national border controls is as utopian today as the vision of world government.
In the counter-culture years of the 1960s, bioregionalists, following an old American tradition of utopian communities, had turned their backs on consumerist society to build new ecologically responsible lives on the land.
(Like much of Davenport's work it is imbued with a Fourieresque utopianism and homoerotic sensualism that is both deeply appealing in its relish of the world's intellectual and sensational richness and deeply unsettling in its openness to critique as pederastic apologia.) Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk
The greatest of philosophical idealists, the Greek Plato, founded around 25 centuries ago the first Socialist utopian system.
This was a large-scale Utopian vision, based on the possibility of constructing a new city guided by the concepts of unitary urbanism.
There is a certain confidence and strength and a kind of utopian fairyland represented in this painting.
First and perhaps most important is a resistance to utopian thinking.
These books are an indictment of uncompromising, fanatical, and utopian ideology.
In other words, modernity has become critical of modernism and of its own utopian absolutism.
But I do still have hope that they might at least taste a slice of reality at some point, and become self-aware to their indoctrinations, the scars of which have blinded their ability to perceive with a shadowland of Utopian disillusion. StrategyPage.com
And to think, feeble-minded utopians like myself have denigrated what should be a time of dour reflection.
Hopefully, as more and more locales change their policies toward recycling, the politicians will quit listening to the eco-utopian alarmists and start being prudent with taxpayer dollars.
This is a Utopian idea perhaps, but no less a fantasy than the idea that the laws of copyright, born of the printing press, can evolve to match the economy today that they purport to control.
It is in Jesus' teaching, he suggests, that utopianism reaches its summit.
Sensor probes detected activity on the Utopian space station and the domed settlement on the moon, all left defenseless as the last of the armed ships attempted to escape.
Viewed in light of class inequality as a structuration process, modularity has both a utopian and a reifying aspect.
The neocons’ democratist ideology should be treated as just another example of fuzzy-headed utopianism. Antiwar.com Blog
First, he has to earn the credentials, then apply them to something more profound and credible than environmentalism and utopian welfarism.
He is interested in finding the place of public dialogue beyond the obvious polarizations - the utopianism that can surround bioengineering as well as the fear that often accompanies its potential outcomes.
The attempt to act in accordance with a system of ideas is invariably denounced as ideological, fanatical, utopian or millenarian.
Is there then even a faint possibility of sensitising kids to the utopian ideals of freedom, justice and equality?
The willingness of these two sociologists to educe social change from cultural expressions and to turn the tables on colleagues who require ideas to achieve material success before they will notice them offers a lively example of the recovery of utopianism and the rising credibility of the imagination. Utopianism and Joanna Baillie: A Preface to Converging Revolutions
During the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the advent of the machine age helped create powerful new strains of utopian art.
Stalin was of course a secular utopian and materialist, and Applebaum seems to have found no evidence that he ever had any moral scruples or hesitations about the Gulag.
Catering for the needs of the populace appears to have been a major preoccupation of utopians.
In the period before political independence, Francophone prose was typically elevated, extravagant, mythopoeic, and laced with surreal fantasy or utopian symbolism.
They are fuelled by idealistic, woolly-headed, utopian notions of equality.
There is a case to be made that their lack of patience for solving problems is prima facia evidence of repressed (crypto -?) utopianism. The Volokh Conspiracy » Charles Murray on Ayn Rand:
The coupe becomes a metaphor for a utopian world that is liberated from patriarchy, one that is not characterised by false binaries.
The Shakers are a UTOPIAN GROUP known for their austere, utilitarian, architecture and furnishing which practice CELIBACY and communal living. Concise Dictionary of Religion
No matter how corrupt and depraved it is in practice, the organisation's sunny utopian image endures.
Unlike the fascist Cancerian, the Aquarian seeks relief in utopian day dreaming. Astrology and Traffic Tie-ups
Some will have utopian dreams about what can be done with that money. Times, Sunday Times
I thought I was an optimist, but I'm just a utopian.
In an era characterized by interbranch antagonisms, Breyer's call for cooperation may sound utopian to some. Jeff Shesol: Evolving Circumstances, Enduring Values
Ultimately, the cooperative factories foundered on the narrowness, not the utopianism, of their vision.
Far from being utopian, the Marxist perspective of proletarian internationalism is based on the fact that capitalism has integrated the world economy into a mighty, interconnected whole.
This eschatological position is not utopian, however, for utopias temporalize the eternal and are therefore either philosophical heresies or metaphors. PERENNIAL PHILOSOPHY
recognized the utopian nature of his hopes
Internationalism is not simply a utopian ideal, but an urgent practical necessity.
They were hard-headed and patriotic, and their desiderata were reasonable by comparison with the radicals ' utopian ideas about the Soviet Union. Liberalism: An Autopsy
Original Sin" has a wonderful chapter on Robert Owen, the 19th-century English industrialist who migrated to America to found a utopian community called New Harmony. Paradise Lost, Again and Again
But we are not in Utopian Motherhood, we are here where breastfeeding is fraught with cultural baggage and we are not all going to agree. They Shoot Wet Nurses, Don’t They? | Her Bad Mother
One might usefully view the emergence of psychology itself as torn between a science of mental control and objectification, and a utopian attempt to preserve an idealised model of selfhood which is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve or extend through the broadening political population, but which can be installed within the individual at an abstract or theoretical level. Psychology in Search of Psyches: Friedrich Schelling, Gotthilf Schubert and the Obscurities of the Romantic Soul
A creative person is neither a utopianist nor an unthoughtful daredevil.
The Prime Minister ought to drop the utopian dreaming and get on with finding practical solutions to the real social problems our country faces. Times, Sunday Times
One might also adopt some basic principles of linebreeding: Son and daughter of common ancestor is good; one of either and two of the other is better; a brother and sister are best; and one of either and two of the other are utopian. Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
A deeply divided political class nourished a range of conflicting and often utopian ideological goals.
Of course, after all that, you would think outwardly progressive organizations would have learned their lesson and foresworn the whole lions-and-lambs, utopianism-as-pragmatism approach to climate policy, right? Keith Harrington: Post-Partisan Bunk: Climate Solutions From Climate Deniers?
The decrepid effect on the edges could have been done a little better, but it certainly accentuates that this story will not be a utopian one, but rather one of stark realities. Book Cover Smackdown! The Windup Girl vs. Legend of the Space Marines vs. The Terror
Boyle's novels are wittily and slyly satiric about the earnest, innocent reforming utopians who questioned social attitudes and proselytised progressive, perfectionist ideals.
For the purpose of this utopian object lies at all times with the "communicability" of our judgment of it. The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant,
The utopians ' mistake of hyperrationalism is also one of the errors of the post-modernists, who hold that irrational prejudices may be overcome by multiculturalist homilies.
What Bakhtin finds onerous in Kant's philosophical formulations is its purism and utopianism.
Their concern is that utopian aspirations towards a new peaceful world order will simply absolutize conflicts and make them more intractable.
A utopianism that has shrunk to the dimensions of survivalism is perhaps part of the problem rather than its solution.

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