All 14 Uses
utopia
in
Les Miserables
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- ; it was a piece of mechanism which was not good for much; a sort of plaything, the idle dream of a dream-ridden inventor; an utopia—a steamboat.†
Chpt 1.3 *utopia = an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
- —THE FRIENDS OF THE ABC Utopia to-day, flesh and blood to-morrow.†
Chpt 3.4
- In this club of young Utopians, occupied chiefly with France, he represented the outside world.†
Chpt 3.4utopians = people who believe in the possibility of an imaginary place thought to be perfect or ideal
- Utopias travel about underground, in the pipes.†
Chpt 3.7utopias = imaginary places considered to be perfect or ideal
- Below all these mines which we have just mentioned, below all these galleries, below this whole immense, subterranean, venous system of progress and utopia, much further on in the earth, much lower than Marat, lower than Babeuf, lower, much lower, and without any connection with the upper levels, there lies the last mine.†
Chpt 3.7utopia = an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
- singing the Marseillaise with conviction, inaccessible to despondency, to lassitude, to the taste for the beautiful and the ideal, to daring generosity, to Utopia, to chimeras, to wrath, to vanity, to fear;†
Chpt 4.1
- The encyclopedists, Diderot at their head; the physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,—these are four sacred legions.†
Chpt 4.7utopians = people who believe in the possibility of an imaginary place thought to be perfect or ideal
- It is always at its own risk and peril that Utopia is converted into revolution, and from philosophical protest becomes an armed protest, and from Minerva turns to Pallas.†
Chpt 5.1utopia = an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
- The Utopia which grows impatient and becomes revolt knows what awaits it; it almost always comes too soon.†
Chpt 5.1
- Utopia, moreover, we must admit, quits its radiant sphere when it makes war.†
Chpt 5.1
- The Utopia, insurrection, fights with the old military code in its fist; it shoots spies, it executes traitors; it suppresses living beings and flings them into unknown darkness.†
Chpt 5.1
- It seems as though Utopia had no longer any faith in radiance, its irresistible and incorruptible force.†
Chpt 5.1
- Having made this reservation, and made it with all severity, it is impossible for us not to admire, whether they succeed or not, those the glorious combatants of the future, the confessors of Utopia.†
Chpt 5.1
- Waging war at every summons and every time that Utopia desires it, is not the thing for the peoples.†
Chpt 5.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(utopia) an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)