pie-in-the-sky

Overwhelmed as we are culturally by the idea of the utopia, we tend to dismiss utopia dreams and schemes as pie-in-the-sky scenarios so in love with their own perfect society that they are divorced from the real world.

Jason Derr: The Utopic Monster: Perry, Obama And Winning The Future Jason Derr 2011

But in the pie-in-the-sky event they can land Pujols, they could easily trade him or just eat LaRoche's contract and consider it part of the astronomical price to acquire one of the best hitters in baseball history.

Albert Pujols, Washington National? Some thoughts Adam Kilgore 2011

This might be a Pollyanna, pie-in-the-sky thought, but I'll throw it out anyhow.

Wayne Trujillo: The Highlands and Harlem: Has Pollyanna Been Displaced by Gentrification? Wayne Trujillo 2011

This doesn't mean that it's a pie-in-the-sky piety that isn't vexed by the mortal wounds of poverty and catastrophe.

Marcia Dyson: Love in the Time of the Haitian Cholera Marcia Dyson 2010

This might be a Pollyanna, pie-in-the-sky thought, but I'll throw it out anyhow.

Wayne Trujillo: The Highlands and Harlem: Has Pollyanna Been Displaced by Gentrification? Wayne Trujillo 2011

And it is good to hear Seligman's acknowledgment that life is full of disappointment, loss and failure --- this is no pie-in-the-sky program that promises the "happiness" others can't deliver.

Jesse Kornbluth: 'Tiger Mom' Says: High Standards Make Great Kids. A Noted Shrink Counters: Kids Need To...Fail. Jesse Kornbluth 2011

Both Obama and Ayers use it as a noun, as in “gray beards preaching pie-in-the-sky.”

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

Of similar note, both Obama and Ayers use the phrase “pie-in-the-sky.”

Deconstructing Obama Jack Cashill 2011

To his detractors, Gideon was dangerous—a pie-in-the-sky slave to political correctness who thought the enemies of Western civilization could be jawboned into holding hands and singing “Kumbaya.”

Gideon’s war Howard Gordon 2011

This might be a Pollyanna, pie-in-the-sky thought, but I'll throw it out anyhow.

Wayne Trujillo: The Highlands and Harlem: Has Pollyanna Been Displaced by Gentrification? Wayne Trujillo 2011