He's got a conservative side, but he's got some progressiveness in him.
I love my Toyota Prius, and I applaud Toyota's progressiveness in developing electric-hybrid automotive technology.
Not that everyone saw such progressiveness in a positive light.
Admittedly, Star Trek's progressiveness hasn't, well, progressed since the early days: Star Trek Into Darkness has rightly been accused of whitewashing and sexist overtones.
A recent editorial of The Guardian, the British standard bearer of the European progressiveness, gives an interesting insight into the increasing difficulties that progressives have with justifying criminalization of sex work.
This narrative turns black children into symbols, evidence of progressiveness used to feed the illusion that this nation isn't racist, and that love is the express route to equality and justice.
The movie targets viewers who want to be kidded into believing in their own sophistication by the sheer privilege of having been born later, flattered into belief in their own progressiveness because of their greater fund of knowledge, because of their awareness — or, rather, belief, as reinforced in a movie such as "Brooklyn" — in the mentally impoverished naïveté of the modern past.
The famous Dutch tolerance and progressiveness, if ever it existed, has turned into intolerance and a prolonged and painstaking search for Dutch identity.
With its excellent health care, superb state-sponsored child-minding provision, and greener-than-Kermit environmental policies, Sweden is practically a metonym for social progressiveness; the canary in the coalmine for putting politically correct policies into practice.
But more importantly, and more intriguingly, it is a progressive show that explores and questions the very nature of progressiveness.
