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When they arrive at the commune, it appears to be based on a kind of anti-utopian, realist philosophy.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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Morton presents his approach as anti-utopian (3, 21-24), but he uses "utopian" only as a negative term for unrealistic thinking or mistaken idealism.
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Rifkind here stands in the long tradition of tory anti-utopian, realist foreign policy.
Dealing with North Korea Burke's Corner 2009
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Rifkind here stands in the long tradition of tory anti-utopian, realist foreign policy.
Archive 2009-06-01 Burke's Corner 2009
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VR is typically anti-utopian, or at the very least non-utopian.
Velvet Revolution: The Prospects Ash, Timothy Garton 2009
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Abelardo Mena, a writer about the Cuban avant garde, says “Long live the anti-utopian, optimistic, and rebellious features of Cuban Art that will live forever young!”
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If art and politics run counter to each other, it's little wonder that a hip new production at the Spoleto Festival USA is so anti-utopian.
James Pinkerton: When Art is Cooler -- and More Conservative -- Than Politics 2008
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And so by the 20th century, artists and writers had turned decisively anti-utopian.
James Pinkerton: When Art is Cooler -- and More Conservative -- Than Politics 2008
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In last year's anti-utopian Christmas movie, Children of Men, suicide was again advocated on the TV of the future as a lovely, peaceful way to choose one's time of escape from the hellish human world as well as help the Earth shed its worst parasites.
Jeff Dorchen: Come Back to the Five-and-Dime, Soylent Green, Soylent Green 2008
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And very soon, clinging to New York (La Guardia is so close that there are times, when the wind blows from a certain quarter, that the noise from the planes makes you raise your voice, or even stop talking), the ten prison buildings that make up this fortress, this enclave cut off from everything, this anti-utopian reservation.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville Bernard-Henri L 2005
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