What's the difference between dystopia and utopian?

Dystopia


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Special attention should be focused on injuries with comminution and bone loss in the medial wall and floor of the orbit, with loss of cartilaginous nasal support, and with orbital displacement and dystopia.
  • (2) Onward to dystopia then: Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) The front page attacks on the 3 judges for basically just doing their job is scary.
  • (3) As Trump’s dystopia becomes a reality, the nostalgia for his calm, measured and consensual solutions has begun early.
  • (4) Of course, we’re in this dystopia, not that world, so we’re left with Trump and Ryan’s flock of nihilists.
  • (5) For the diagnosis of dystopia canthorum this should be taken into account.
  • (6) The ministering of fear: dystopia and loathing at the Republican convention Read more Fortified versions of Soviet “ Zil lanes ” allowed leaders to shuttle safely between venues, behind high fences separating them from the rest of the street.
  • (7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Elizabeth Banks parodies Donald Trump’s entrance at DNC “Some of you know me from The Hunger Games, in which I play Effie Trinket – a cruel, out-of-touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia,” she said.
  • (8) With killings averaging about a dozen a day, and businesses fleeing, the city edges ever closer to the Hobbesian dystopia of the valley 50 miles east.
  • (9) A general discussion of the relative value of blepharophimosis and dystopia canthorum as diagnostic features in W--I is presented, to conclude on the greater value of dystopia canthorum, which can be identified with confidence in more than 96% of carriers.
  • (10) Most characteristic malformations of this syndrome were shown to include coracoid nose and hypertelorism, coloboma of the eyes, hypospadia, aplasia, hypoplasia and polycystosis of the kidneys, dystopia and dysplasia of the cerebellar gyri, shortening of H2 field of the Ammon's horn with imparied orientation of its neurons, sacral sinus, and retarded bone maturation.
  • (11) An 11-year-old boy had a harelip with cleft palate, heterochromia iridis, blonde fundus on the eye with blue iris, and dystopia canthorum.
  • (12) We report on 2 sibs with the Klein-Waardenburg syndrome; they had dystopia canthorum, blepharophimosis, and bilateral flexion contractures of the fingers.
  • (13) With pelvic and crossed dystopia nephrureterectomy is indicated.
  • (14) The worldwide assault on social democracy and the collusion of major parliamentary parties – begun in the US and Britain in the 1980s – has produced in India a dystopia of extremes that is a spectre for us all.
  • (15) The idea that, deep down, still, there ain't no black in the union jack is reiterated every time a Conservative leader evokes Enoch Powell's grim dystopia – from Margaret Thatcher's 1978 "swamping" statement via William Hague's 2001 "journey to a foreign land" speech to David Cameron's 2011 warning against the "discomfort and disjointedness" created by immigrants into settled neighbourhoods.
  • (16) This study has shown that surgery for hypertelorism or vertical orbital dystopia gives very satisfying results overall to the patients and their families and leads to a modest but highly significant objective improvement in appearance after surgery, as perceived by panels of laymen or hospital staff not known to the patients.
  • (17) Those who survived such idiocy to make it in the goon squad then had to work to a mission statement that reads like something out of a Philip K Dick sci-fi dystopia—except that Philip K Dick never gave such offence to the English language as this: We consider the border not to be a purely physical barrier separating nation states, but a complex continuum stretching offshore and onshore, including the overseas, maritime, physical border and domestic dimensions of the border.
  • (18) The second case is an example of Waardenburg's type I (with dystopia canthorum) with complete iris heterochromia and characteristic facies.
  • (19) Frequently seen are dysplasia of the external ear and dystopia and atresia of the external ear canal as well as vertebral malformations, mostly involving the thoracic region.
  • (20) It’s not like these sexy YA dystopias.” The moderator took a survey – how many Google employees were in the house?

Utopian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.
  • (n.) An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Even if you're being generous, Wood's vision of an alternative can feel like a utopian work in progress.
  • (2) My father, Peter Self, who was, oxymoronically, a “political scientist”, wrote numerous books, which, while often technical in character, were nonetheless informed by his own rather gentle and utopian socialism.
  • (3) In the utopian version of this storyline, by collapsing governments' abilities to promote freedom in some countries but not others, or in the political realm but not the commercial one, openness may force governments to pursue a more principled kind of politics.
  • (4) At the moment, this utopian scenario seems unlikely.
  • (5) Going with what seems a reasonable assumption – that Scotland can be successful either independent or in a federal Britain – we are left with a leap of faith in one direction or the other, based on whose utopian vision of our future is most likely to be untrue.
  • (6) Recently, the Swedish duo Tomorrow Machine showcased a series of utopian packaging that included a container that dissolves with its contents.
  • (7) Hobsbawm, being a sage member of the Communist Party, warned against their utopianism, but I took to them like a fish to water.
  • (8) Even then, analysts who should investigate the link between the business and its persona seem swept away by utopian dreams and look where the company suggests they should be looking (mainly the future.)
  • (9) Such utopian, urban visions help drive the “smart city” rhetoric that has, for the past decade or so, been promulgated most energetically by big technology, engineering and consulting companies.
  • (10) "No, I mean it quite seriously – it's utopian, of course, it will never happen."
  • (11) Ruth Dear Ruth… Will Hutton Photograph: Guardian There is a danger of utopian myth in this, rather like the Labour left and shop steward movement in the 1960s.
  • (12) Just a few months ago the European Parliament and the council were so far apart that it was almost utopian to believe in an agreement.
  • (13) But we're growing out of the initial goggle-eyed utopian phase that new technological leaps tend to induce, and settling down into the reality of the power of the crowd.
  • (14) Though it was a set-up picture, it didn't replicate an "everyday moment"; it created one that was both utopian and unlikely.
  • (15) Utopian maybe, but less ludicrous than suggesting that "hard-working families" can overcome the inequality perpetrated by a powerful elite determined to hang on to their privilege.
  • (16) He admits that the second alternative seems utopian.
  • (17) For mid-century Americans, these gleaming marketplaces provided an almost utopian alternative to the urban commercial district, an artificial downtown with less crime and fewer vermin.
  • (18) With its heady media mix of graphic violence and utopian idylls, Isis has sought recruits and supporters who are further down the path toward ideological radicalisation or more inclined by personal disposition toward violence.
  • (19) An eradication campaign against A. variegatum in Guadeloupe, to avoid the spread of the associated diseases, appears technically difficult but possible, economically profitable, but socially completely utopian.
  • (20) Once again the professionals are nervously circling the utopian future of integrated health and social care But that is never the same as doing it.

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