Sentence examples for progress history from inspiring English sources

It is an affirmation that, in spite of the best efforts of those who seek to hold back progress, history moves forward.

Still, if Tate Modern and the Pompidou treat modern and contemporary art as a work in progress, history weighs heavily at the Modern in New York: its extraordinary modern collection has known only four major installations in more than a half-century.

However, in the enlightenment celebration of novelty and progress, history is reduced to a catalogue of mistakes that are left behind in favor of a more mature comprehension of reality past and present.

Late-19th-century Americans placed their faith in the progress of history.

The Enlightenment had inordinate faith in itself and the evolutionary progress of history.

If Mr. Dunbar makes only marginal progress, however, history could well remember Mrs. Whitman as the governor who acknowledged the problem of racial profiling, but failed to solve it.

Giorgio Strehler's production abandons his more familiar naturalistic approach (as in Figaro, above) in favour of a series of slow, symbolic processionals that suggest the lives of individuals and nations caught up in the relentless progress of history.

There's the paradox: yes, Virgil endorses Rome's imperial mission and has a whiggish hope for progress in history, but his poem is also suffused with the world's sorrows.

Recalling the negative moment of the Hegelian dialectic (the second stage in the cyclic progress of history and ideas through thesis, antithesis, and synthesis), Žižek conceives of the subject as something purely negative, a void or an emptiness of being (which Lacan refers to as the incomplete, divided, or "barred" subject of the unconscious).

There is no super-human meaning or progress in history; there is only a series of events and processes driven by concrete causal processes and individual actions.

Thus he believed, like Hegel, in progress through history towards freedom, but he thought it would take Communist revolution to bring this about.