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• n  an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer
• a  of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia
• a  characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection
  the dim utopian future
  utopian idealists
  recognized the utopian nature of his hopes

• For the next four years, with a group of like-minded colleagues, he polished his utopian ideas and nourished his hatreds.
• Neoconservatism in foreign policy is best described as unilateral bellicosity cloaked in the utopian rhetoric of freedom and democracy.
• But it has slipped, somehow, from realism to utopian fantasy.

• Utopian

• dystopian

News & Articles

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• Dog-Friendly Restaurant Charlie Wants a Burger Still Ruff Around the Edges
  On paper, the pup-centric concept behind Charlie Wants a Burger sounds great: a dog-friendly River Walk restaurant specializing in all-American chow, with a charitable tie-in to the Humane Society. But in reality, this utopian doggie vision breaks down faster than a turd in the rain. On my first visit, I brought my 105-pound Great Pyrenees, Bandero. Thinking smart (or so I believed), Bandy and I ...
  June 19, 2013 - San Antonio Current
• Paladin & FilmBuff Set ‘Spark: A Burning Man Story’ Ahead Of Burning Man 2013
  If you’ve never been to the desert arts free-for-all that is Burning Man, soon you can experience it from the cushy confines of a theater. Paladin and FilmBuff have pacted to release Steve Brown and Jessie Deeter’s docu Spark: A Burning Man Story profiling the annual gathering, which began as a social-artistic experiment in utopian living and has grown into a bacchanal drawing over 60,000 free ...
  June 17, 2013 - Deadline Hollywood
• Will big money leave Newark if Cory Booker wins Senate seat?
  Critics wonder if donors have invested less in Newark's long-term future and more in Booker's utopian vision of urban renewal
  June 16, 2013 - NJ.com

Quotes

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• Oscar Tabarez in Independent Online
  It would be Utopian to think of Uruguay's permanence at the summit, but we can believe in circumstantial results,Tabarez said...
• David Cameron in guardian.co.uk
  Mr Cameron argued that foreign policy instead required "liberal conservatism" which promoted civil rights and democracy as a key component of international security, but was hard-headed and "sceptical of grand utopian schemes to remake the world".
• David Horowitz in Sydney Morning Herald
  Unlike other genre movies, 'Star Trek' has always represented an incredible amount of optimism. In the late '60s, in a time of unrest, it represented this utopian world. As opposed to 'The Dark Knight,' which I enjoyed, but was so bleak and didn't... Chris Pine http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Pine&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNG3NUOG24NTvKs8hpXrxEUpdT_dvA Access Hollywood http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.accesshollywood.com/chris-pine-on-star-trek-reboot-its-definitely-not-going-to-please-everyone_article_12900&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFxBC4QREXI0uWEX0uiKgRm80Pj-Q Jan 6, 2009 106847 140035 utopianism As the one-time leftist David Horowitz wrote in his autobiography Radical Son, the New Left in the US was not an innocent experiment in American utopianism, but a self-conscious effort to rescue the communist project from its Soviet fate".