Sentence examples for dream of progress from inspiring English sources

The American dream is a dream of progress – the idea that you are better off than your forebears, just as they superseded their parents – and it extends beyond money and stuff.

In his director's statement, he writes, "With this story, I intended to take a harsh look at a society that is incapable of coming face to face with its recent past; a society whose hands are covered in blood but that tries to look stylish and trendy, dancing under flashy lights while ignoring others' suffering; a country that turns its back on itself, in exchange for the dream of progress".

While these sci-fi constructions are being built at the expense of construction workers; and migrants with no rights are being exploited to service the wealthy; and its own people are being forced into poverty, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf's dream of progress remains an illusion.

While these sci-fi constructions are being built at the expense of construction workers; while migrants with no rights are being exploited to service the wealthy; and while its own people are being forced into poverty, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf's dream of progress remains an illusion.

His two goals against Tottenham in the Champions League quarter-final effectively ended the north London club's dream of progressing in the competition.

Sometimes it feels permanently deferred, with dreams of progress borne back ceaselessly into the past.

What's striking about his vision of the former city is how sensitive he was to false utopianism, to the bulldozing of the past and the dreams of progress.

This revaluing of agriculture's role is part of what (Lowenthal (1998)) has called the 'cult of heritage' that characterises late modernity, where 'Nostalgia for things old and outworn supplants dreams of progress and development.

However, she is without false hope, and observes that "to be born in this city… is useful for only one thing: to have always known… that this dream of unlimited progress is in reality a nightmare of savagery and death".

And the forgotten American dream of "higher progress" may be be reawakened.

They peddle the self-delusional dream of inevitable human progress.