How to Use utopianism in a Sentence

utopianism

noun

• So many of them were born from the militancy or utopianism of the 1960s.
  — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 25 Apr. 2018
• The back-and-forth of cold Utopianism and hot Volk-worship continues to this day.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• The political utopianism of Solanas was one kind of dream.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2019
• This makes one of Kaplan’s final chapters, on the dangers of a new utopianism, all the more chilling.
  — Bret Stephens, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2018
• Still, techno-utopianism does not appear to be what patients want.
  — Olivier Drouin, STAT, 22 Jan. 2020
• For all his techno-utopianism, Berthelot was, after all, still French.
  — Richard Faulk, Discover Magazine, 4 June 2015
• In keeping with his leftist sympathies, there is a rich vein of utopianism in Rodari’s work.
  — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• What Democrats refuse to acknowledge are the trade-offs that accompany their utopianism.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 23 Oct. 2021
• Some of that Utopianism was hardwired into the show's basic premise, in which money, war, and racial discrimination are things of the distant past.
  — Annalee Newitz, Ars Technica, 27 June 2017
• That’s part of what differentiates our work from pure utopianism.
  — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2017
• The Jetsons utopianism common to fashions of the boom years of the late 20th century, for instance, mutated at the turning of the millennium.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2017
• But when Marshall McLuhan, the high priest of Canadian techno-utopianism, coined that term in the early 1960s, a world improved by new media really did seem in the offing.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 22 June 2017
• Maybe this techno-utopianism, and talk about eliminating private car ownership is getting too far ahead of the game.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 6 Aug. 2018
• But, in a deeper sense, the mid-century overtaking of utopianism by dystopianism marked the rise of modern conservatism: a rejection of the idea of the liberal state.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
• In Silicon Valley, a certain kind of techno-utopianism and obsession with the apocalypse go hand-in-hand.
  — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 23 Jan. 2017
• Rousseau’s hedonistic utopianism laid the ground for the French Revolution.
  — John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
• As the founders discuss the possibility, their utopianism surfac es.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 19 July 2017
• If the utopia that was meant to be America by its early settlers has failed, my guess is that Mr. Fraser would argue this is no reason to eschew the dream of utopianism generally.
  — Joseph Epstein, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
• Design that goes this far beyond the call of duty, and stays clear of the blanding influence of the mass market, can’t help but tap into our Aquarian emotions — stuff about utopianism, the creation of a better world.
  — Momus, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2007
• Fire Island is a stock figure for a certain kind of gay utopianism, but Leifheit is attuned to the variety of cultural meanings that have been inscribed on the place by those who have visited.
  — Jack Parlett, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022
• The robotic companion was once a dream of techno-utopianism, but has instead become a terrifying weapon.
  — Britt H. Young, Wired, 14 Dec. 2021
• On paper, these actions were justified with utopianism.
  — James McElroy, Washington Examiner, 31 Dec. 2020
• At the center of this fractured saga, whose companion pieces will touch on American utopianism and the birth of 20th-century industrialism, is the eponymous Lydie Breeze.
  — Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 4 Feb. 2018
• But Oakeshott’s philosophy possesses none of the naïve utopianism in many of the more radical romantic traditions.
  — Nate Hochman, National Review, 18 Dec. 2020
• In response, the losing Germans often blamed back stabbers for their defeat and first interpreted such utopianism as Allied guilt — and later as weakness.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2017
• Revolution is equated with pure chaos and consistently linked to utopianism.
  — James McElroy, Washington Examiner, 31 Dec. 2020
• Neither spiritual nor social utopianism fared well in the 20th century.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
• The agency considers the technology to be interesting, though very preliminary, and cautions the public against imbuing the idea with too much utopianism.
  — Zoë Schlanger, Newsweek, 17 Nov. 2014
• This is, transparently, a terrible deal, and a seeming betrayal of that dream of crypto utopianism—the vision of a future without shady intermediaries.
  — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 11 Nov. 2022
• Rather than grounding itself in a vision of racial purity or political utopianism, the most viable strain of this tradition takes its bearings from the semi-imperial cosmopolitanism of the Catholic Church.
  — James Poulos, Orange County Register, 1 Apr. 2017

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