Sentence examples for ideology of progress from inspiring English sources

The label is dubious, because Berg displayed a profoundly ambivalent attitude toward the ideology of progress which his teacher articulated.

This is part of the ideology of progress whose facile prejudice is that the future is preferable to the past.

Adorno, who taught at Darmstadt for nine summers after his return to Germany, knew well that his beloved ideology of progress was yielding mixed results.

From Berg he absorbed the tenets of Schoenbergian philosophy, which held that music had to strike out into unknown regions in order to stay true to a Wagnerian ideology of progress.

What can disappear — what long ago disappeared, in fact, at least among rock bands — is the ideology of progress in pop music: the optimistic sense, shared by all those early-seventies pioneers, that the form was evolving and improving, and that prog rock offered a sneak peek at our future.

He popularized an extreme biologizing of society, while linking it to an ideology of "progress" (Hofstadter 1955, pp. 31 50; Richards 1987, 243 94; Farber 1994, pp. 38 57).

Then, "the great mass of youth was on the stage of history as an actor for the first time, and there was an ideology of positivism and progress".

They are people besotted, he believes, with Western ideas of progress — the ideologies of utilitarianism, socialism, evolution, the greatest good for the greatest number, and so on.

Xan Brooks The best westerns are about changing times, warring ideologies and the ruthless march of progress, so it was fitting that Red River pitted the Hollywood old guard against the new.

Since he was appointed to planning in September 2012, the founding director of the Policy Exchange thinktank has been happy to challenge Conservative party ideology when it appears to get in the way of progress.

The pressure to conquer space stemmed from the threat of progress by foreign nations, and, consequently, an ideology.