Sentence examples for imaginary utopia from inspiring English sources

This is an imaginary utopia, in the here and now, although it's not clear precisely where here is or who these unprepossessing people (middle-aged men and women, young families) are.

When our lives falls short of our imaginary utopia, we get scared and lash out at ourselves and those we love.

The project was inspired by English writer James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon where he describes Shangri-la as an imaginary Himalayan utopia.

This debate never really has been about evidence, it's about a conflict between the imaginary conservative utopia that Peter Hitchens and others want to live in and the nasty drug-and-violence-filled world they wrongly assume that Rockstar are trying to encourage.

THE idealized places and social systems we call utopias, after the imaginary island in Sir Thomas More's 1516 work, have had a bad century.

While Tafuri reads the end of an organic city model in the action of collages of the types implemented by Piranesi in the Iconographia Campi Martii of 1762, Kahn, isolating a fragment of the imaginary plan, makes this portion of utopia live again in one of the most important works of the Twentieth Century, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

The pastoral utopia generally functions as an imaginary refuge from the technological forces that are so visibly warping the author's real-world landscape.

The English humanist Sir Thomas More extended this monastic communism in Utopia (1516), which describes an imaginary society in which money is abolished and people share meals, houses, and other goods in common.

But I did.' " For the moment, and it may only be a moment given all the thorny issues he has coming up, he is in that imaginary place his idol Sir Thomas More  invented: utopia.

The entire craze reached a sort of bathetic crescendo in 1893 with the staging of Gilbert & Sullivan's operatic take on the genre entitled Utopia Limited, which employed an imaginary society to satirise limited liability companies.

In 1516, he published his most important work Utopia - a description of an imaginary republic ruled by reason and intended to contrast with the strife-ridden reality of contemporary European politics.