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• The most ruthless leaders in history were often ideological ones with utopian visions.From the entry ideological
• The utopian socialists promised the peasants a Garden of Eden.From the entry Garden of Eden
• Some versions of utopian communism envisioned true moneylessness; others envisioned money and prices but under centrally planned control.From the entry moneylessness
• From its inception “movement” or more precisely “borderlessness” has been central to various utopian traditions.2018 November 11, Achille Mbembe, “The idea of a borderless world”, in Africa Is a Country. From the entry borderlessness
• For the majority, the ZAD offers an alternative, simpler and more utopian way of life.2017 December 28, Kim Willsher, “End of la ZAD? France’s ‘utopian’ anti-airport community faces bitter last stand”, in The Guardian. From the entry zad
• What makes Atlantis so interesting is that its people built a utopian society and then mysteriously disappeared.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave…. From the entry poof
• Chalabi and use him as the instrument of their utopian fantasies.2004 May 23, Maureen Dowd, “Bay of Goats”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Nov 2017. From the entry dunderhead
• Yet, there are elements of What Is to Be Done? that must be classified as utopian socialist.2001, Andrew M[ichael] Drozd, “[Nikolai] Chernyshevskii and the Utopian Socialists”, in Chernyshevskii’s What Is to Be Done? A…. From the entry utopian socialist
• There was no possibility of a postsocial existence, no hope of a leap into a utopian paradise.1970, Willson Havelock Coates, The Ordeal of Liberal Humanism: an Intellectual History of Western Europe since the French Revolution. From the entry postsocial
• The “telescope house” was common to eastern Pennsylvania, especially in the utopian communities that gathered there more than a century ago.2002, 100 Of the World's Best Houses (Images Publishing, 2002) p. 326. From the entry telescope house
• Both the anticoercive (meaning libertarian) and coercive (meaning Marxist) utopians share the goal of the withering away of the state.2002, Peter Augustine Lawler, Aliens in America: The Strange Truth about Our Souls, page xxv. From the entry anticoercive
• Moreover, the most oft-cited source of Chernyshevskii’s supposed utopian socialism, Charles Fourier, was not regarded highly by Chernyshevskii at any time.2001, Andrew M[ichael] Drozd, “[Nikolai] Chernyshevskii and the Utopian Socialists”, in Chernyshevskii’s What Is to Be Done? A…. From the entry utopian socialist
• Millard’s sketch happened to look a lot like the master plan of Fourierism, one of the most popular secular utopian movements in American history.2009 April 16, Jon Mooallem, “The End Is Near! (Yay!)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Fourierism
• Cyberflânerie can be seen to represent ideas that are more specific to the medium as such and thus reach further in their utopian longing.2004, Maren Hartmann, “Conclusion: the death of technotopias”, in Technologies and Utopias: The Cyberflaneur and the Experience of ‘Being…. From the entry cyberflânerie
• Prison abolitionists are dismissed as utopians and idealists whose ideas are at best unrealistic and impracticable, and, at worst, mystifying and foolish.2003, Angela Y. Davis, chapter 1, in Are Prisons Obsolete?, archived from the original on 19 May 2023, pages 9-10. From the entry impracticable
• The utopian community at Ephrata flourished for forty years, and the last celibates at Ephrata died after the turn of the century.1994, John L. Brooke, The Refiner’s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644–1844, →ISBN, page 42. From the entry polity
• One of them, bureaucratic conservatism, represented the routinized sphere of administration, whereas the other, chiliasm, gave rise to the utopian consciousness and modern politics.1985, Colin Loader, The Intellectual Development of Karl Mannheim, page 104. From the entry chiliasm
• Despite his intention, his work had the effect of revealing the mythological, prophetic, and utopian sense of Marxism which had eluded Marx's more scientistic followers.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford…. From the entry prophetic
• Thus, too, we have the woman social reformer, trailing along ridiculously behind a tatterdemalion posse of male utopians, each with something to sell.1918, H. L. Mencken, In Defense of Women. From the entry tatterdemalion
• Decelerationists have the utopian fantasy that we all could dedicate ourselves to doing pottery in Tuscany all the time, but this is not how life works.2022, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, We Have Always Been Cyborgs: Digital Data, Gene Technologies, and an Ethics of Transhumanism, Policy Press…. From the entry decelerationist
• California spirituality is a late instar of America’s utopian impulse, and corporate meritocracy derives from the Whig dream of the self-made man that entranced young Abraham Lincoln.2014 January 8, Caleb Crain, “The Democratic Personality”, in The New Yorker. From the entry instar
• Humankind has been brought to its knees by a global virus, and genetically enhanced apekind has built its own utopian eco-community in the forests outside San Francisco.2014 July 1, Steve Rose, “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes: a primate scream - first look review”, in The Guardian. From the entry apekind
• There are many places, of course, on the internet where a utopian ideal of "here comes everybody" prevails, where the anonymous hive mind is fantastically curious and productive.2011 July 23, Tim Adams, “How the internet created an age of rage”, in The Observer. From the entry hivemind
• A genre of “ultimate questions of worldview,” it features internal and external dialogue, including the anacrisis or provocation of a word by others' words, and a utopian vision.2010, P Fambrough, “Ionesco's Rhinocéros and the Menippean Tradition”, in Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, volume 34, number 1. From the entry anacrisis
• Aside from the utopian vibe there was a relentless Stepfordian positivity so that even that last traditional bastion of critical thought—gossipping about coworkers—was well out of bounds.2010, Franklin Schneider, Canned: How I Lost Ten Jobs in Ten Years and Learn to Love Unemployment, page 249. From the entry Stepfordian
• It was Louis-Sébastien Mercier, according to Alkon, who first introduced the notion of connecting utopian relations to the lives of a contemporary audience in a futuristic euchronia.2008, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., The Seven Beauties of Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN. From the entry euchronia
• The film raised many questions about the utopian future that was promised at the height of the space age and how quickly such promises were forgotten.2003, Sean Topham, Where's My Space Age?: The Rise and Fall of Futuristic Design, Prestel Pub. From the entry Futuro House
• Although its name and conception bears some resemblance to many projects of utopian architecture -- house-communes and communist homes -- it was tecnically born out of Lenin's head.1993, Public Culture, page 276. From the entry house-commune
• Emblems of past promises for a utopian future and scenes of a present still poisoned by those promises exist on a continuum in these wry but unlaughing, beautifully painted pictures.2009 March 6, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry unlaughing
• Non-abused multiples have no need of doctors, and they have carved out a foothold of their own from where they speak confidently about their utopian vision of a multiple world.2000, Henk Driessen, Ton Otto, Perplexities of identification, page 115. From the entry multiple

Meaning of utopian

1. adjective Of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia.
2. adjective Ideal but often impractical; visionary.
3. noun Someone who supports or heralds the establishment of a utopia.

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How do you use utopian in a sentence?

Utopian is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “The most ruthless leaders in history were often ideological ones with utopian visions.”

What is a short sentence with utopian?

“a utopian project”

What does utopian mean?

Utopian means of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia.