Sentence examples for utopian desire from inspiring English sources
In the better of them, like Crake, a utopian desire for perfectability replaces the lost and lonely self.
Wagner envisioned an opera audience devoid of class divisions and had a utopian desire to combine disciplines into a total work of art, a gesamtkunstwerk.
Stumbling on a copy of "Robinson Crusoe," he finds his own double, with "all the traits I see in myself: the longing to get naked, the fastidious disdain bordering on arrogance, the need to 'get organized,' the utopian desire to transcend the real world".
No single solution currently exists to achieve the utopian desire of zero fossil fuel electricity generation.
Thus, the critical impulse behind post-colonial theory has turned on itself, drawing attention to the way that it may itself be marked by the utopian desire to transcend the trauma of colonialism (Gandhi 1998).
We want everything from movies -- and we want movies that appeal to everyone -- and then we recoil when someone tries to satisfy our profligate, utopian desires.
"There were lots of opportunities to play with the utopian desires around VR.
My fear of black men is visceral, rooted in the physical and completely at odds with my utopian desires.
Kader Attia's large-scale installation Arab Spring (2014), which is included in the Unlimited sector of Art Basel, presented by Galleria Continua, seizes upon a moment of revolutionary iconoclasm, where utopian desires turn destructive.
But that goal runs headfirst into the techno-utopian culture's desire for the "last game I'll ever need".
But our motivation, what pushes us forward, is not only a utopian vision, but a desire to survive, and one step above that is to flourish, as a species in relation to nature.
