How To Use Visionary In A Sentence
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Some see that as a kind of visionary genius that goes beyond limited piecemeal approaches.
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Mr. Palomar is a quester after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous.
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It didn't come in his lifetime; a catalyst and a visionary, he seemed to be moving too fast to gain purchase on his value system.
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DOBBS: The White House, says President Bush tonight, will announce what they call visionary proposals to deal with our illegal immigration and border security crises.
CNN Transcript Jan 23, 2007
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And it lives in the designs of Issey Miyake, the playful visionary whose métier is making clothes.
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Actually, by 1907, Ochs made a visionary technological move by working with the inventor of the radiotelegraph, Guglielmo Marconi, to innovate the world's first transatlantic wireless news service.
Ashley Rindsberg: Where Is The New York Times Going?
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The title character, with a name that recalls the famous telescope, is a quester after knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous.
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After two days of hearing many excellent pitches from scores of visionary entrepreneurs in the financial tech fintech industry, five things became clear: 1. A seismic shift is underway in the way financial products services will be offered to people and the way in which people will use them.
Ben Mangan: Fintech Leaves Fake-o-nomics Behind
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An excited little man with the staring eyes of a visionary, who harangued us for hours on end about the imminence of apocalypse.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Clinton is the symbolic remainderman of the age of inspiration: admired for his professional political skills, but hardly viewed as a visionary figure.
Forget The Angry Voter. The Hacks Are Back.
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To her, in these days of imminent dismay, my thoughts flew out as to a fair protecting saint; until the inspiration of her visionary presence wrought in my fancy with such a dramaturgic power, that I seemed to walk daily with her, and to know all those delicate and sweet propinquities by which liking passes into affection and affection is glorified into love.
Apologia Diffidentis
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Nor are visionary experiences induced, for example, by hallucinogenic drugs.
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The party who dug the parson out after a snow-storm, verily got their reward, a sort of prelibation of the visionary sweets of that land, flowing not, according to the Jewish notion, with milk and honey, but according to the revised version of Yankeedom, with milk and rum.
William Lloyd Garrison
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Indeed, visionary writers like William Blake, while tending to apocalyptic or millennial climaxes, continually undermine our sense of the reality of the world and of ourselves in ways that are both archaic and postapocalyptic.
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It's there in Patti Smith's visionary diction and hortatory intensity.
Beaternity
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Donald Worster, on the other hand, provides an analytic reinterpretation of explorer John Wesley Powell as a neglected visionary.
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Concepts of strategy introduce consideration of market forces, environmental pressures, and organizational imperatives which form the backdrop for visionary initiatives.
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His artwork was visionary, defined by its luscious gouache and photorealism, and his fondness for dressing his characters in the cartileginous mugs of actors like Kirk Douglas.
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A typical dotcom company's rapid growth rate demands a turnover of directorial authority to people better equipped than the visionary founder to help the company grow.
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So, no, I didn't edit Son of Man at all, but the choice to reprint this classic and under appreciated work, which makes my Top Twenty list for the best and most visionary of 20th Century SF, as opposed to the nigh-infinite number of other books that could have filled the slot, is the result of the "editorial process" here.
For Your Consideration: Books I Edited in 2008
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This book evinces a buoyant confidence and a relaxed visionary quality.
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But it seems rather churlish to criticise a president for lacking vision and then to ridicule him when he tries to be visionary.
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Overall, the spring 2001 collections were lacking fresh ideas and, in some cases, coherency, but there were enough visionary pieces to keep the shows lively.
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It was Conran, the legendary English visionary who democratized design by making it more accessible and affordable, who hooked me on to the power and appeal of great design.
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At 70, Robert Wilson has long been a monumental figure in the arts, an interdisciplinary visionary who combines music, the visual, dance, deconstructed language, and arresting stage craft to create mind-expanding theatrical events.
Erica Abeel: Getting Voluptuous With Robert Wilson at His Hamptons Gala
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Both by the solitary nature of her visionary experience and by the ecclesiastical condemnation, Joan was an outsider.
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Imagination, -- all from which, when it was all his own, he had turned half weary and impatient, and termed the exaggerations of a visionary romance, now that the world had lost them evermore, he interpreted aright as truths.
My Novel — Volume 12
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In my view, the possibility of eyelid problems such as retraction and ectropion and the possibility of revisionary surgery are material risks about which a patient should be informed when determining whether to have a blepharoplasty.
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And the possible firing of a director -- who has been called visionary by more than a few -- from a musical she has worked on for nine years.
Cara Joy David: The Fall That Was
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Somewhere between 432 and 460 a second visionary dream, in which the Irish people beseeched him to return, ignited his missionary zeal.
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Gradually it became the fashion in Humboldt to "unload" redwood timber-claims on thrifty, far-seeing, visionary John Cardigan who appeared to be always in the market for any claim worth while.
The Valley of the Giants
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In the unconscious energy field of phonemic circuitry and its short-outs within the subvocal production of literary meaning, the double-cross can precipitate a visionary option or knot off an ironic one.
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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Possibly this is one of the most visionary sci-fi books I have ever read, and so chock full of controversial ideas (let alone nonlinear narrative, bizarre writing style, and strange futuristic pidgin lingo) that it surely has to make this list.
MIND MELD: What are the Most Controversial SF/F Novels of the Past & Present?
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The result is an uncompromised production that will appeal to fans of French revolutionary writing, the filmic revisionary mode, as well as the current crop of East Asian cinema.
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One facet of this tragedy is the absence of visionary leadership capable of leading humanity out of its quagmire.
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This visionary scientist also laid down the foundations of dermatoglyphics.
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President Lyndon Johnson epitomized the alpha and omega of a leader's visionary determination.
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Pathology and pills don't offer a very visionary route to such imaginings.
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Her case is misdiagnosed, and she finds herself swept into vertiginous cycles of self-loathing and ecstasy, paranoia and visionary exaltation.
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Marked by the thickened release of "good" from "growing," what we find inscribed from within narrative time is both a phrase for cumulative social improvement and an asymptote of its visionary teleology as well, Tennyson secularized: the immediate "growing betterment" (participial adjective plus noun) as well as, hard on its heels, the "growing [ultimately] good
Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
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We have seen a similar process occurring in Petrarch's visionary poem, where Laura exteriorizes en passant the process of fashioning a poetic self.
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Like a lunatic's ravings, his writing is inscrutable, absurd, yet shot through with phrases of visionary clarity and unpredictable poetry.
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The nobility, integrity, and visionary qualities of the man are reflected in his music.
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Then Donna Scott at a small magazine called Visionary Tongue asked me to write a short story, so I used it as a test-bed to play around with the idea of clockwork vampires.
Interview with Andy Remic (Interviewed by Mihir Wanchoo)
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The individual members of this particular community are by no means all wonderfully multifaceted, but they are at least inconstant, generous and judgmental, visionary and blinkered, capable of extreme kindness and gross inhumanity.
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Yet the texts are firmly part of the later medieval world: the first two come from the writings of visionary women mystics and the last from a rigorously ascetic monastic theologian.
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The dreamer, the visionary seer, not only sees, but does something, makes something.
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Neither is the fact that yet another talented Canadian visionary couldn't grow and prosper here.
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Elaw's Memoirs testify vividly to her dauntless independence, her boldly visionary sense of mission, and her radical spiritual individualism.
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This is one steely-eyed, methodical visionary blessed with an ethereal level of confidence and persistence.
Times, Sunday Times
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But if this is so, how can the metaphysician find a basis for disapproval without turning revisionary?
The Times Literary Supplement
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An entrepreneur is more than just a risk taker. He is a visionary.
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McCaw may be a hard-nosed businessman, but there is a starry-eyed visionary in him, too.
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A visionary, she developed a new and wholly unique dance technique and vocabulary of steps and movements.
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The enfant terrible of the symbolist movement, he wrote some of the 19th century's most visionary and influential poetry and prose before abandoning writing at the age of 19.
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Roosevelt hoped he had been of some assistance in moving our people along the line Mr. Rhodes mentioned; that is, along the line of a sane, moderate purpose to supervise the business use of wealth and to curb its excesses, while keeping as far aloof from the policy of the visionary and demagogue as from the policy of the wealthy corruptionist.
Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography
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He also delighted in needling O'Malley, apparently trying to disrupt the latter's eerily disciplined attachment to talking points stressing innovation, investment, education, and similar uplifting and visionary objectives.
Ehrlich livens up Md. race but doesn't knock out O'Malley
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If officers have to make decisions for the Council, they need to be visionary and commercially astute.
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Schwab is reengineering its own business in one visionary leap that will require six years to execute.
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The theoretic coherence of their visionary practice is a testament to its reality.
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But, to be fair, Chuck was a genius and a visionary - destined for a brief run and an early flameout - while the Beastie Boys, despite their antics, were too levelheaded, too well-adjusted not to last.
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Economically minded and a visionary, he was looking for something that would give the community an economic boost.
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At night I had vividly-colored dreams — my oneiric life was bright, well-sighted, visionary in the truest sense.
The light that draws the flower
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Nor was it Neal Stephenson, the visionary science fiction writer who imagined a future transformed by nanotechnology in his 1995 novel The Diamond Age.
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The Angel's trumpet flower produces a narcotic scent used by South American shamans to induce visionary dreams.
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I marvelled at the imaginative energy of the Martian enterprise, at its visionary and dogged inventiveness.
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At the conference many papers dealt with a visionary drug called ayahuasca, a harsh-tasting thick infusion often made by boiling Banisteriopsis caapi vine and Psychotria viridis leaves.
Craig K. Comstock: Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat PTSD?
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The large malvaceous genus Abutilon is in need of critical revisionary study.
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The original youth culture clothiers at Stussy have produced a three-part documentary, available online, about the late hip hop producer and visionary J. Dilla.
Weekend Weirdness: Animal Collective’s ODDSAC Premieres in NYC; Chuck Norris Does Actionfest; Actor David Sherrill on The Wraith (and a Sequel?); Melvins Versus The Shining; Stussy’s J. Dilla Documentary | /Film
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‘I found myself being called a tool of the Communists and an impractical religious visionary,’ Ryan wrote.
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Emerson was a prime mover behind revisionary interpretations of Christianity since the early nineteenth century.
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The uncategorisable drummer and musical visionary Seb Rochford is the Brian Eno of a personal space between rock, electronica, jazz/improv and world music.
This week's new live music
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Shortly after this visionary experience, Hurston describes perhaps the most traumatic moment of her childhood, the death of her mother.
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As I wrote at the time, shortly before Time magazine named you 1995 Man of the Year, you were no longer just a bomb-throwing back bencher but a visionary who comes up with 10 new ideas every day, even if one critic -- actually, it was me -- said nine of them are goofy and one is brilliant.
Al Eisele: The Newtster: He's Baaaack!
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When I spoke to one of the people behind this project, I was struck by its simplicity and by the visionary future paradigm that it is based on.
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An excited little man with the staring eyes of a visionary, who harangued us for hours on end about the imminence of apocalypse.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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Company operating decision - making style of sound, pragmatic, with a market - leading product innovation and visionary pioneering consciousness.
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The visionary forms in which the deities are perceived in meditation and portrayed in art are simply appearances their compassionate play, as the tantras say.
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This is the only publication of Richard Roach's exceptional visionary theosophic work since the rare originals in the eighteenth century.
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An entrepreneur is more than just a risk taker. He is a visionary.
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Our posters tend to be a bit wittier and more direct, whereas the German contingent are more visionary and uplifting.
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She is a rigorously skeptical and a profoundly visionary poet, a writer whose demystifying intelligence is matched by a passionate embrace of poetry's rejuvenating power.
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In his revisionary account, the received view that Indian cricket was fathered by Lord Harris is shown up as greatly exaggerated.
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Jobs, who died of pancreatic cancer October 5, at the age of 56, was known for being a visionary, but Jobs' extemporaneousness answer to a random question about Apple's future on this clip is jaw-dropping.
Forbes.com: News
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By this means, when the heavens are filled with clouds, when the earth swims in rain, and all nature wears a lowering countenance, I withdraw myself from these uncomfortable scenes, into the visionary worlds of art; where I meet with shining landscapes, gilded triumphs, beautiful faces, and all those other objects that fill the mind with gay ideas, and disperse that gloominess which is apt to hang upon it in those dark disconsolate seasons.
Essays and Tales
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He was a business visionary; she was an eleemosynary visionary.
We Remember - Isabelle Charlotte Weinstein Goldenson, 1921 - 2005
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While we need markets, we also need room for the visionary ideas, accidental discoveries, and embryonic notions that germinate into real breakthroughs, if only they have the space to grow.
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One expects them to be capable of imagining another, better future - a Utopian moment, a visionary book.
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Palmer was an archetypal English visionary landscapist, and his paintings, drawings and etchings of moonlit wheatfields and flocks of sheep influenced later artists, among them Graham Sutherland and Lucian Freud.
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And the bloodbath and stabilizing stages lead to what I call the visionary stage.
Till the Butchers Cut Him Down
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Palmer was an archetypal English visionary landscapist, and his paintings, drawings and etchings of moonlit wheatfields and flocks of sheep influenced several later artists, among them Graham Sutherland and Lucian Freud.
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Ridolfi, too, speaks of il grande appassionato and De Caprariis thinks him positively visionary.
A Special Supplement: The Question of Machiavelli
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Concepts of strategy introduce consideration of market forces, environmental pressures, and organizational imperatives which form the backdrop for visionary initiatives.
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The book focuses on the Economic Quadrangle, an ambitious and visionary plan to create a zone of economic cooperation, integration and prosperity in the borderlands of the upper-Mekong region.
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The too-obvious answer is that clever, creative, visionary people are attracted to either the abstraction of art and literature or the practical innovation of science and technology.
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He was a skilful politician, but he was not an adventurer or a visionary.
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Her love and reverence for her father and her pride in his attainments were very beautiful: and in order to appreciate what it was in him that inspired this great sentiment, not only in his daughter, but in so many leading men of that time, the eccentricities of the man whom the world called unpractical and visionary must be forgotten, so as to get a glimpse of the Alcott who was the intimate friend of Emerson -- a genius, a philosopher, an optimist, in spite of failure and in spite of opposition.
Three Unpublished Poems
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Here, she tells the story of Mud, an orphan member of an elephant tribe who is blessed with visionary powers.
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This book uniquely combines the original documentary sources and scholarly examination of her long and multifaceted career as a stateswoman, politician, educational leader, and visionary.
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And a series of observations, made at the suggestion of Mr. Wace, convinced both watchers that, so far as this visionary world was concerned, the crystal into which they peered actually stood at the summit of the endmost mast on the terrace, and that on one occasion at least one of these inhabitants of this other world had looked into Mr. Cave's face while he was making these observations.
Tales of Space and Time
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Under his visionary leadership, the city prospered.
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This was an unusual project for Rembrandt in that he rarely illustrated books and rarely represented this kind of mystical, visionary subject matter.
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His ideas seem to have this lasting resonance on new listeners as well as old, and this album represents The Doors at their creative zenith, brutal and untempered, eclectic and mysterious, unique and visionary.
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When the German foreign minister made a visionary speech last month about a federal Europe, with a directly elected government and president, he was howled down.
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Had any one told these unfortunate noblemen and gentlemen, how, and by whom, the grand fabric of the French monarchy under which they flourished would be subverted, they would not have pitied him as a visionary, but would have turned from him as what they call a mauvais plaisant.
Paras. 60-83
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With a focus on dynamic, visionary cinema, SAIFF annually offers exposure for new filmmakers and an unparallel experiences for attendees.
Brad Balfour: South Asian Cinema Spotlighted in Fall Festivals
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Rock journalists have long been questing after the next visionary songwriter capable of treading in Dylan's gaping, mythical footprints, but so far those who draw comparison only crumble under the weight of his legend.
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There's too much Serge the political thinker and polemicist and too little Serge the visionary artist of the political novel.
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Man, that's what I call visionary leadership. by Mike Brett - Mar 4th, 2009 @ 1: 22pm
Techdirt
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An essay in revisionary metaphysics 452pp.
The Times Literary Supplement
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His visionary experience also stands between the mystical and the metaphorical, rather than straightforwardly purporting to be supernatural as in the case of Yeats.
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As in the Netherlands for many years, attendees at the conference took for granted a sharp distinction between hard drugs such as cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, which are clearly destructive, and relatively non-addictive and visionary substances such as psilocybin, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide, and ayahuasca, as well as marijuana and MDMA (or Ecstasy).
Craig K. Comstock: Can Psychedelic Drugs Treat PTSD?
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The Angel's trumpet flower produces a narcotic scent used by South American shamans to induce visionary dreams.
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Astrobiology, the search for life's origins and its existence elsewhere in the universe, used to seem like a visionary dream.
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I would be much more comfortable for there to be an inspiring philosophy led by a visionary leader.
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For that, the world needs visionary statesmen and -women.
Jonathan Lewis: Are the Poor Capitalistically Unlucky?
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I encouraged people not to shrink in fear and self-protection, but be unusually visionary and ethical.
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The characteristic trait of the later Dickens is that the fantastication leads to grim visionary perception, metaphor carrying him to unanticipated depths.
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While the signs are that he is taking a vigorous approach to cabinet discipline, we hope to hear soon that he has also done that strategic, visionary thinking.
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No matter how impossible with current resources, a coherent, visionary curatorial strategy is absolutely essential to the survival of the museum.
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As I said a few moments ago, Hibernia is more than just the sum of its sizable parts: it represents a unique blend of visionary business, engineering, technological, and environmental know-how.
Leading a New Industry into a New Century
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Here, she tells the story of Mud, an orphan member of an elephant tribe who is blessed with visionary powers.
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Originally Delphi manifested the Goddess of Prophecy in a vaporous cave where fumes induced visionary trances.
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Well, he is better the Bush and the neo-fasc neo-cons, but he has not proven himself effective or visionary.
Obama receives Nobel Peace Prize
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Schwab is reengineering its own business in one visionary leap that will require six years to execute.
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Fans proclaim it a visionary masterpiece, a mind-expanding, phantasmagorical inner-space odyssey.
Times, Sunday Times
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The film incorporates graphic dream sequences and visionary effects.
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The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open. Martin Luther King Jr
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According to Hamburger, the devotional image develops in order to record and provoke the visionary experience cultivated by the nuns and, to a point, imitated by the laity.
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He dropped the airy-fairy visionary verbiage and talked turkey.
Paul Begala: Obama's SOTU: Putting the Jam on the Lower Shelf So the Little People Can Reach It
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The awards highlight projects that go beyond technical solutions to consider process, human behavior, and visionary city planning.
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But once we move beyond these misimpressions, we can consider Gatess central vision: The creative reach of a capitalist economy can and should be extended to provide vaccines, mosquito nets, and other tools for public health in poverty-stricken countries, andmost visionaryto provide new technologies particularly suited to those countries.
Creative Capitalism
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He supported the visionary Burlingame mission (1868) and the favourable terms found in the unratified Alcock convention (1869).
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William Blake produced a series of visionary paintings about mankind transfigured by revolution and a series of graphic illustrations to highlight the plight of black slaves tortured in Surinam.
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Belief is visionary - you can see in your belief what the eye cannot see. Dr T.P.Chia
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The strength of the walls resisted an army of two hundred thousand Turks; their assaults were repelled by the sallies of the Greeks and their foreign mercenaries; the old resources of defence were opposed to the new engines of attack; and the enthusiasm of the dervis, who was snatched to heaven in visionary converse with Mahomet, was answered by the credulity of the Christians, who _beheld_ the Virgin
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 6
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His tragic and untimely death cut short a remarkable record of achievement in geology, in public service, and in visionary leadership of Canadian and international geoscience.
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Clearly the last chapters of Wilde's novel are not visionary glimpses of the future.
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Kim Dae Jung is both a visionary and a shrewd, hard-nosed politician.
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The Pindaric ode - which is typically passionate, visionary, and sonorous - is modelled on the lyrics of Pindar.
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If it does, I am a seer and a visionary and demand credit.
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We've seen the interview with the ascetic visionary who squats before a frugal meal among his disciples.
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She is a visionary, driven by a remarkable energy, determined and brave, undeterred by threats and harassment and numerous arrests and uncomfortable nights in stinking police cells.
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The dreamer, the visionary seer, not only sees, but does something, makes something.
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This card asks you to be a visionary - to dream beyond current limitations.
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I believe that we in western Europe have a historic choice in the next few years, and that we can be visionary, or we can funk it.
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At the conference many papers dealt with a visionary drug called ayahuasca, a harsh-tasting thick infusion often made by boiling
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Nor shall I expatiate on the alkahest of that mad scoundrel, Paracelsus, with which he pretended to reduce flints into salt; nor archaeus or spiritus rector of that visionary Van Helmont, his simple, elementary water, his gas, ferments, and transmutations; nor shall
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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But while their drawings could be visionary, they were graphically quite conventional perspective or axonometric renderings of three-dimensional space.
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Though it may seem disheartening to think that this amazing band was greatly a product of a master plan, try to think of it in terms of them being the product of a great idea, or the dreams of a visionary, because that is closer to the truth.
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The film is based around Isaac Asimov's visionary stories about future technology where robots are an integral part of our daily lives.
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In a 1986 book, Matsunaga came up with a brilliant, idealistic, impractical, and visionary idea.
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The strongest photographs in the show have a mysterious, iconic power that seems to unite a difficult present and a visionary future.
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But more recently professing evangelical scholars have advocated revisionary versions of numerous doctrines. A revisionary doctrine of God has been advocated by proponents of "openness theology.
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Hiller's art deals with the transcendental and the visionary, with dreams, trances, hallucinations and altered states of consciousness.
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The word visionary doesn't begin to scratch the surface.
Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories
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Legend has it that the very structure of the Forbidden City was conceived in a dream by Yung-lo's tutor, a visionary monk.
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Target," an astonishing piece of visionary futurism from the Russian director Alexander Zeldovich, was complemented by the childlike delight that attends nearly every moment of
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The vitae often refer to the nuns attending Mass and offices, sitting in their choirstalls and singing the liturgy, or like Irmgart of Kirchberg, reciting the litany of saints. 66 The many mystical and visionary experiences that occurred within that monastic space were often marked by noting the psalm, antiphon, or sequence that the women were singing at the exact moment of experience or revelation.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
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Burwell is known for her visionary grab bag of charmingly painted furniture, and increasingly, for her stunning computer graphics work.
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He's already become a formidable, almost mythical figure to many hardcore cinephiles and critics, the kind of filmmaker who gets described in magical, visionary terms.
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These were the sort of things that tend to blur the clear perception of the visionary - troublesome motes like compassion and humane understanding and social concern.
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He was a mixer, a musician, a singer, swinger and night owl; a restless tinkerer; an instinctive acoustician and a chain-smoking tube amp visionary.
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And that is why this ebullient, energetic and visionary leader suddenly became mute and reclusive.
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Frostian solitaries love to challenge fate and to assert their hard-won visionary power while deprecating their epiphanic achievement with comic whimsy.
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They are almost always the brainchild of a visionary, but the "tribe" scorns if not reviles them.
Politics
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In a highly wrought, almost hallucinatory flashback, Peter remembers an adolescent holiday at a lakeside house and a visionary experience he had there, "a sea-swell of feeling, utterly unexpected, a sensation that starts in his bowels and fluoresces through his body, dizzying, giddying.
Alan Hollinghurst On Michael Cunningham: The New York Review Of Books
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Aviation is visionary and global, recognised and appreciated by millions of people as a wonderful tool to venture afar.
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Only in the deceptive dream of the mirage would they appear once more, looming in a pearl-coloured shaking veil like a fluid on the edge of some visionary lagune.
The Garden of Allah
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I would, and do, recommend this as the best book for the tyro, the student, the general reader, and even, in a revisionary context, for the expert.
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Chicago Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum gives us his blurb: Suggesting at different moments a backstage musical, a failed love story, a surreal comedy, and even a cartoon fantasy, this beautiful, corrosive, visionary masterpiece by Jia Zhang-ke is a frighteningly persuasive account of the current state of the planet.
MILF:04 The World
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The ascetic modernists' rejection of history in order to create a visionary brave New World was clearly incompatible with the historic pub.
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He was a strong leader, a visionary in his way, a figure surpassing all around him at home and on the continent.
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I can't help it: where some see visionary lines and inspired angles I see the geometry of a madman.
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Jazz composer and visionary Sun Ra: is the past 'calcifying contemporary music'?
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to its Own Past by Simon Reynolds – review
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We need more reservoirs and desalinisation plants, plus some visionary diversions of water from wet to dry areas, together with connecting pipelines.
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Denning is an expert and visionary in the fields of cybercrime, hacktivism, information warfare and security, and encryption.
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The boldly illustrated book, with its images of the colorful circle furniture and of the visionary zippered-jersey masculine sportswear, is a monument to the Pierre Cardin oeuvre.
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He hopes to see the gains achieved by the U.S. civil rights movement, and maybe even a vision of ideal universal equality, reflected in the visionary future of the Federation.
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Country Life magazine has already voted him into its Power 100 for his outspoken determination to boost rail over lorry haulage and decongest British roads, tagging him a ‘railway visionary’.
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Concepts of strategy introduce consideration of market forces, environmental pressures, and organizational imperatives which form the backdrop for visionary initiatives.
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Stanley's poetry is always lush, frequently visionary, and sometimes sublime: It lights upon existential nanoseconds without affixing itself so doggedly to any one natural phenomenon that the presence and significance of the human is diminished a claim sometimes leveled against younger poets working in the New Minimalism, a kissing cousin of Slow Poetry.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
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His visionary voice is potentially stifled by sorrow and grief, and he attempts to contain that dangerous erosion of his prophetic vision.
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As comfortable as this might sound to the disorganized visionary who risks having valuable work stolen from them if they forget to mark it with a ‘©,’ consider the implications.
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The War Department in the 1920s was indeed sclerotic, and Mitchell was indeed a visionary.
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It would be futile to reconstruct him as a consistently liberal-minded visionary.
The Times Literary Supplement
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His designs of majestic buildings and tree-lined squares were considered visionary.
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When the prime minister who presided over all of this is hailed as a statesperson and visionary, are we not laying the foundations for full-blown fascism?
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The big corporations - and the small - seldom shared their hot-button results, certainly not with visionary pioneers.
VITALS
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Namier's was thus a large-minded and visionary project.
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We have a fez with "visionary" handsewn on the crown we'd like to give him.
Kevin Smokler: The Shelf Talker: Arugula, Poetry, and New Best Friends
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The flamelike dark cypresses, writhing olive trees, blaring oversize suns, convulsed mountains, and vortically churning stars of Van Gogh's visionary madness are not far off.
Determined Spirit
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If the group is too large for shame, for civic virtue, indeed, even for patriotism, the way of the powerful, visionary, and disencumbered man is clear.
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The biography of William Blake warmly portrays the visionary poet's wife Katherine as the helpmate who made Blake's work possible.
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Such revisionary thoughts troubled me last week, and I reached a remarkable conclusion after the soul-searching: I do not need to bet to enjoy racing.
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However, he was hailed as a great artist and visionary by Picasso, Magritte and Ernst, who admired Rousseau's primitive style of painting and viewed him as being part of a force that was changing the face of art.
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One of its founders, Professor Tony Robards, will explain how York's city leaders took bold and visionary steps to create a shared strategic vision, long before recent government initiatives.
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His eight models are absurdist and visionary monuments to human, societal, and governmental follies, abominations, and questionable policies.
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Straightaway, one feels Schubert's love of the theatre from the solemn opening measures, the sforzando downbeat setting in motion curving string lines to explore different key textures, visionary and remote for their period.
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Unencumbered by stylistic restraint, the paintings, prints and drawings present a visionary social realm, freed from the conventions of naturalist description.
