Sentence examples for utopian expectations from inspiring English sources

The leader of the Bolsheviks, Vladimir Lenin, shared these somewhat utopian expectations.

Its soldier characters bemoan the failure of utopian expectations; Zionist rhetoric has become "a millstone around our neck".

The pages are yellowed, the addresses and phone numbers all but useless, the products antique, the utopian expectations quaint.

"The emergence of every new major medium over the last century or so has invariably been accompanied by a lot of utopian expectations.

All such utopian expectations were illusions, he believed, driven by what he called "ideology," the belief that imagined ideals, so real and seductive in theory, were capable of being implemented in the world.

The result may not meet Mr. Stein's utopian expectations -- you can still find the occasional patch of graffiti and remnant of a drug deal -- but it's impressive by comparison with other efforts to house the working classes.

According to Kennan, when American policymakers suddenly confronted the Cold War, they had inherited little more than rationale and rhetoric "utopian in expectations, legalistic in concept, moralistic in [the] demand it seemed to place on others, and self-righteous in the degree of high-mindedness and rectitude ... to ourselves".

We'll get the change promised but it will take 2 full terms and it will never live up to the expectations of the utopian groupies of the Left who thought they'd voted for a messiah not a mere president.

Before it took a historical-political turn in the middle of the 18th century, and again after the Second World War, the classic utopian thought thrived on the expectation that the future is open and that the social processes can be controlled.

Like Gil Alexander like the would-be utopian, Eleanor BioShock 2 was burdened by expectation.

"American Dreamers" is Kazin's bid to reclaim the left's utopian spirit for an age of diminished expectations.