Sentence examples for optimistic doctrine from inspiring English sources

It was written in response to the optimistic doctrine that ours is the best of all possible worlds.

And we can trace the major disasters of 20th century politics to the impeccably optimistic doctrines of Marx, Lenin, Mao, and the many others for whom progress was the inevitable tendency of history.

The curriculum is rooted in an optimistic self-realization doctrine with religious overtones (similar to "The Secret").

Thus, Moyar (2008) argues that Harkins' optimistic and mis-directed doctrine negatively affected the long-term performance of the South Vietnamese military and the American advisers attached to them.

The final report will come as a blow to those in and outside the church who had hoped a corner might have been turned in the way Catholic leaders discussed and dealt with homosexuality – even if not even the most optimistic of followers had been expecting a change in doctrine, according to which "homosexual acts" are "intrinsically disordered".

Though Scholem ultimately could not overcome his skepticism about the social-governance program of anarchist doctrine, based on what he saw as its unduly optimistic assumptions about human nature, these reservations did not apply in a theological context.

Other songs on the album are more light-hearted and optimistic, marking the return of Lennon's humour and wit after the uncompromising doctrine espoused on Some Time in New York City.

Though I am not optimistic, I pray that the newly elected Pope Francis will rethink this antiquated and unholy doctrine.

As a prison chaplain accidentally assigned to a middle-class Church of England parish, where his unfettered Christian doctrine does not play well with the powers that be, Sellers has a rare expansive, optimistic role, his face fixed in a permanent smile that seems to have been pinched from the Guinness repertory.

Weiss promoted the legal doctrine of "fraud on the market," which argues that investors are defrauded by any false or overly optimistic forecast by a company.

Democracy has become doctrine.