Sentence examples for liberal illusion from inspiring English sources
Over-all, I would say that conservatives desire to strengthen American foreign policy by discarding the liberal illusion that we can somehow coexist with communism in a semblance of peace and honor.
One place to start is by acknowledging two errors in thinking that have blighted U.S. policy in the past decade: the conservative delusion that the United States could, more or less single-handedly, use its military power to reinvent the Middle East, and the liberal illusion that we could simply walk away from the mess that Bush, Cheney & Co. created.
But what about the problems with free speech or the liberal illusion of free choice?
Like Raymond Aron, the subtle and relentless French polemicist whose spirit breathes through these pages, Judt is a liberal thinker dedicated to demystifying liberal illusions.
The author's subjects were the statesman's passions: poverty, especially in relation to family breakdown; the persistence of ethnicity; the limits, errors, and necessity of social policy; in matters of war and peace, liberal illusions and conservative excesses.
Screening the advertisement, Frazier described the ad as "a liberal fantasy" and "an illusion of positive change".
The result, says Grigory Yavlinsky of Yabloko, a fading liberal party, is the "illusion of competition", rather like that between rival boyars in tsarist times.
His research led him to conclude that the abolition of corporal punishment by liberal states was an illusion, because the state substituted punishment of the "soul" by monitoring and controlling both the behaviour of prisoners and the behaviour of everyone in the society.
Leaders in higher education are increasingly recognizing that the distinction between professional fields and the liberal arts is an illusion generated by history.
Murrow's politics in his prime years were establishment liberal; he had no illusions about the benignity of the Soviet Union but no use for the domestic Red-hunters then enjoying a political heyday.
Niebuhr rejected such liberal belief as a dangerous illusion because human beings are besotted with original sin — which he identified with collective egoism and self-interest — thus frustrating the advancement of the species.
