Sentence examples for utopian illusion from inspiring English sources

Possibility was that year's richest legacy, beyond every utopian illusion.

That messianism, Hosking argues, fed the grand utopian illusion that became the Soviet state.

But the thirst for utopian illusion seems undimmed by 20th-century cataclysm, and the appetite for an anti-Bush is so voracious that the Chávez-as-Che concoction resonates, empty as it is.

With the Utopian illusion that we can go beyond the "freedom" to be vassals!

USAFA's public (mis)information office sprang into full gear, parading openly LGBQ cadets before the microphones and cameras in a carefully stage-managed "Potemkin Village" production meant to create the utopian illusion of the Air Force Academy's pristine inclusion and sexual preference diversity.

They had no utopian illusions about creating a world of rational, affectless machines.

Jefferson was under no utopian illusions about the efficacy of political entertaining.

That was my utopian fantasy.

Finally, home is a utopian fantasy.

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.

If there is any place on Earth designed to expose Jefferson's utopian vision as an illusion, it is the Middle East today, where the removal of autocratic governments have produced sectarian chaos, civil wars and horrific bloodletting.