Sentence examples for utopian belief from inspiring English sources

But it also stemmed from a utopian belief that socialism and democracy could go hand-in-hand, that the system could be reformed from within.

Groups like TVTV, Raindance and Videofreex were formed around the utopian belief that "real" people could create television for the masses.

To people who run social networks, location-based networking is a logical extension of their efforts to humanise technology and harness it to the cause of greater global openness.The networks' founders seem to have an almost Utopian belief in the benefits that their creations will deliver.

Another was the play that resulted, The Red Lion, about a struggling team whose members (somewhat like Lewes's) are doing their utmost to square a utopian belief in the beauty of the beautiful game with the financial ugliness that dominates contemporary football.

More recently, the physicist Steven Weinberg, in the January issue of the The Atlantic Monthly, dismisses five current ideas he thinks are misguidedly utopian: belief in the free market, in a governing elite, in the powers of religion, in ecological consciousness and in technological innovation.

There is some sort of utopian belief that people can make things happen.

The first wife of the painter Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, summed up the utopian beliefs of British modernism when she wrote: "To say a thing was modern was to say it was 'good', sweeping away Victorian, Edwardian, Old Theology, Old Tory views.

Frank, however, is able to show that just as Dostoyevsky had clung to his Christian faith even at moments of youthful revolutionary fervor, so now in crusty maturity did he harbor a lingering attachment to the radical friends (notably the Populist poet Nikolai Nekrasov) and utopian beliefs of his Socialist youth.

The B-team initiative is not led by small businesses full of utopian beliefs.

What ties this enterprise together is the fierce independence of the players, and their near-utopian belief in the ability to imagine different, better realities.

What the President has is a sophisticated theology, an anti-utopian belief that human imperfection is inevitable but progress is possible if human beings remain self-critical about what they can achieve.