Sentence examples for empty ideal from inspiring English sources

Sadly, for Wilbert Rideau and many others, that fairness is only an empty ideal.

But liberty is a completely empty ideal if we are free to act only when our conception of our interests coincides with those of experts, medical and otherwise.

For example in the Critique of Practical Reason, Kant argues that because reason sets forth the idea of happiness conditioned by and proportionate to virtue as the ultimate culmination of our moral strivings, we must believe this end to be realizable; for if we do not believe it can be realized, we must admit that morality directs us to an empty ideal, and hence is itself fraudulent.

What you do in these spaces is neither as grandiose and abstract nor as quotidian as "real democracy"; the nascent forms of praxis and social engagement being made in the occupations avoid the empty ideals and stale parliamentarianism that the term democracy has come to represent.

Without this empirical and descriptive component, democratic norms become merely empty ideals and not the reconstruction of the rationality inherent in actual practices.

By securing an 8 05 a.m. reservation at The Crystal Palace with Winnie the Pooh and his friends, your family can walk down Main Street when it's practically empty (an ideal time for taking that unobstructed Cinderella Castle family photo).

She did not know that earlier that morning Mr. Darche, a diamond ring in hand, had peeked into the courtroom, expecting it to be empty and the ideal place, given how they had met, for a marriage proposal.

Find an open, fairly large space - a theatre, a field, or an empty room are ideal.

Green girls, they think it is their destiny To offer the ideal to empty air.

In a neighborhood of large multimillion-dollar homes, this house would be ideal for empty nesters, or a couple looking to start a family, Mr. Robert suggested.

While Ms. Hays's recession plan would be to mount a festival of limited-run shows by emerging playwrights in Broadway's empty theaters, Mr. Azenberg's ideal solution would be a national actors troupe.