Sentence examples for purportedly utopian from inspiring English sources

The Positron Project, a purportedly utopian community so obviously sinister it's introduced in the form of a faux-1950s advertisement, complete with rhetorical questions ("Living in your car?" "Remember what your life used to be like?") and a too-good-to-be-true product ("Help solve the nation's problems of joblessness and crime while solving your own!").

In opposition to Held, Habermas, and other defenders of global democracy, communitarian-minded skeptics underscore the purportedly utopian character of such proposals, arguing that democratic politics presupposes deep feelings of trust, commitment, and belonging that remain uncommon at the transnational level.

Sounds utopian?

Utopian, even.

"Look," Mr Rourke purportedly wrote.

It's not utopian.

Scalia despises Utopian thinking.

Or is it utopian?

Maybe the California dream was utopian — actually beyond utopian.

That was my utopian fantasy.

"You can't be utopian.