Sentence examples for fantasies of progress from inspiring English sources
And yet pessimism, perhaps necessarily, permeates each one of these docs, a rejoinder to fantasies of progress that have airbrushed the last eight years.
[German philosopher Friedrich] Nietzsche of course used to lament that people in the modern world avoided the consequences of the death of God and the destruction of a whole set of beliefs and norms that shaped human lives for centuries by escaping into pseudo-religions like socialism and liberalism and fantasies of progress.
But reading also liberates us from living at a time when nothing is valued for its own sake, only as a means to something else that is consumed – a fantasy of progress in which value is itself consumed.
I discussed Iraq with two of the people in Woodward's new book at a time when Woodward describes them as squarely facing the debacle, and when I tried to get them to acknowledge that the Administration's strategy was failing, they still clung to the fantasy of progress.
Despite my own comfort with ambiguity, I can't reconcile such a system with a fantasy of social progress.
I started to realize that, in creating my spunky elderly female character, I had romanticized the version of old age that tells a story of progress, indulging a fantasy of who I might be when I'm old.
Winters' first book, Hope Draped in Black: Race, Melancholy, and the Agony of Progress(Duke University Press, June 2016) examines how black literature and aesthetic practices challenge post-racial fantasies and triumphant accounts of freedom.
More evidence of progress.
Signs of progress abound.
