"impulse" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- There was, moreover, a utopian impulse behind Matta-Clark's re-use of abandoned buildings.
- But for her, too, the utopian impulse passed.
- "The utopian impulse of the period is missing," he said.
- His political principles were insistently liberal, and when he was seized by a more radical or utopian impulse, he liked to invoke the lofty ideals of Peter Kropotkin, the Russian anarchist.
- The frequent clanging in Ms. Fennelly's head has partly been the sound of her utopian impulses colliding with cold, uncompromising realities.
- For unclear reasons, philosophy appears to have been less marked by utopian impulses than other areas of culture.
- The harsh rules that limit the shelf lives of utopian impulses would seem to spell doom for an institution as shapeless and impractical as Day's.
- As elsewhere in Boyle's work, the conflict in "The Inner Circle" is organized around the clash between this utopian impulse and the countervailing desire for stability, harmony and compromise.
- The quest for pure rebellion in some punk rock lyrics reflects the spread of anarchism, or perhaps nihilism - anarchism without the utopian impulses - among teenagers.
- The work tends to value wild humor, shock, a concern for history, a muscular visual sensibility, and a fascination with the utopian impulse.
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