Sentence examples for utopian potential from inspiring English sources

The exhibition attempts to "rehabilitate the utopian potential of Antarctica", with structures that go beyond the usual utilitarian mission stations.

It also points to an era in 20th-century American culture when mind-altering chemicals were believed to have utopian potential as agents of cosmic consciousness.

For all the darkness of her subject matter, Solnit emphasizes the utopian potential of what William James called a "civic temper," the drive not for individual survival but for meaningful community.

In general, the American cultural anxiety of the early 70s devolved from a loss of confidence in the utopian potential of consumer society at home, military loss of face in south-east Asia and a widespread cynicism about the moral integrity of American politics and of the military industrial complex.

There was, however a flaw in its utopian potential: as New York Times Nigeria correspondent John Darnton remarked, the compound – which had its own system of justice, meted out in beatings – represented "a mirror image of the militaristic society [Fela] criticises".

Using its ruins as departure points for fanciful ruminations on urban space, as well as his own meditations and memories, Mr. Garaicoa presents -- in drawings, photographs, mixed-media and video installations -- many visionary thoughts about the city as a ruin with utopian potential.

Newspapers and magazines reporting on SB often do so by pinpointing its utopian potentials and qualities (Cserer and Seiringer 2009; Hellsten and Nerlich, 2011; Lehmkuhl 2011).

There is something utopian, and appealing, about the potential for cryptocurrency to provide an opportunity for more equitable wealth distribution.

Techies since the 70's have waxed utopian about the computer's potential to change the way we relate to one another and to restructure power dynamics.

Both men had utopian visions for television's potential, but the play deals as well with all the quotidian matters beyond the scope of their idealism: patent law and economics, science and the repercussions of the Wall Street crash.

Here, way out beyond the farthest eastern frontiers of Byzantium, toward the Indies, fable placed this wealthy, powerful, utopian Christian realm, a perfect potential ally (it was thought) for the Catholic West.