These filmmakers saw their medium as a vehicle for social progress, and they believed that the innate American sense of decency and fair play would, with some prodding from the movies, overcome equally tenacious American traditions of prejudice and intolerance.
Calls for world government in the post-World War Two era implied a deep suspicion about the sovereign state's potential as a vehicle for moral progress in world politics.
She said art, no matter the platform, can serve as a vehicle for social progress.
Born in Hungary in 1895, he began his artistic career in Berlin in the early 20s, finding inspiration in Constructivism and its utopian ideas of art as a vehicle for social progress.
Yet its near-death underscores the degree to which trade, and globalization in general, once trumpeted as a force for progress, have come to be seen as a vehicle for destroying jobs, making the rich richer and undermining national sovereignty.
If producing what you "like" in spite of a market demand is an act of insubordination, then shifting tastes can be considered a marker of progress, and a fashion presentation a vehicle for protest.
Even worse, as the story progresses, it becomes clear that he's really just a vehicle for the author's ideas about leadership.
It's a vehicle for growth.
There is a vehicle for this.
