Sentence examples for imperial vision from inspiring English sources

There is one glitch in his imperial vision, however.

This breathtaking imperial vision informed virtually everything Washington did.

The American imperial vision is that Americans act disinterestedly whereas others act only out of self-interest.

Churchill's imperial vision reminds us that a reconsideration of his political principles must not be confined to the era that shaped his finest hour.

In the not so long run, an imperial vision will go down no better in the Middle West than in the Middle East.

In Pierre Charles L'Enfant's original plan for Washington, the Mall was nothing more than a sketch, part of an imperial vision transplanted from 18th-century France.

He achieved a Cambridge first in natural sciences (physics), writes a regular blog, creates games and has published a novel, Imperial Visions, under the name IG Mansfield.

Yet Cuba and the Philippines, captured after the Spanish-American war of 1898, were soon let go in favour of a new notion that John Darwin calls "informal empire", and Cubans denounce as neo-imperialism.Mr Darwin's thesis is that imperial visions linger on well after the captains and kings have departed.

More importantly, it's another step toward replacing the American dream of prosperity for all with imperial visions of massive wealth for the few.

Ms. Knightley is, once again, a vision of imperial British pluckiness, with an intriguing dash of romantic recklessness that surfaces toward the end.

At other times, Iñárritu appears to be inspired by Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God, with the visions of imperial greed and the vast river in full flood – or maybe his documentary Grizzly Man, in which the grim-faced Herzog famously listened on his headphones to the sound of someone being mauled to death.