How to Use utopianism in a Sentence

utopianism

noun
  • To believe that such a world can never return would seem to be the height of utopianism.
    — Robert Kagan, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Still, techno-utopianism does not appear to be what patients want.
    — Olivier Drouin, STAT, 22 Jan. 2020
  • That’s part of what differentiates our work from pure utopianism.
    — Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Oct. 2017
  • The back-and-forth of cold Utopianism and hot Volk-worship continues to this day.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
  • So many of them were born from the militancy or utopianism of the 1960s.
    — Tony Adler, Chicago Reader, 25 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • What Democrats refuse to acknowledge are the trade-offs that accompany their utopianism.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 23 Oct. 2021
  • 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
  • As the founders discuss the possibility, their utopianism surfac es.
    — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 19 July 2017
  • Revolution is equated with pure chaos and consistently linked to utopianism.
    — James McElroy, Washington Examiner, 31 Dec. 2020
  • The robotic companion was once a dream of techno-utopianism, but has instead become a terrifying weapon.
    — Britt H. Young, Wired, 14 Dec. 2021
  • In the annals of irresponsible utopianism, few names stand out like that of Bronson Alcott.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Rousseau’s hedonistic utopianism laid the ground for the French Revolution.
    — John D. Hagen, National Review, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Neither spiritual nor social utopianism fared well in the 20th century.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • The citizens’ councils, designed as visions of democratic utopianism, hold little power.
    — Max Fisher, Amanda Taub and Dalia MartÍnez, New York Times, 7 Jan. 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
  • Her utopianism, so timely amid the catastrophes that still shake the world, particularly recommends this most personal of histories.
    — New York Times, 11 May 2018
  • Some, though, are interested in translating crypto’s Internet utopianism into the real world.
    — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • And dissidence and utopianism, new ways of life, other—othered—ethnicities, and hybrid identities were universally amenable.
    — Diedrich Diederichsen, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cuba’s socialist utopianism wore away gradually.
    — Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Side by side, the images trace an evolution in the cultural function of modernist architecture, from avant-garde utopianism to capitalist extravagance.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2022

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