Literary notes about Visionary (AI summary)
In literature the term "visionary" is used to evoke both the glow of creative insight and the shadow of impractical idealism. Authors sometimes bestow the term as a compliment for imaginative capacity, as when a painter’s work is described as manifesting lofty artistic visions [1] or even when entire realms are depicted in ethereal, almost otherworldly terms [2, 3]. Yet the word also carries a critical tone in other contexts, used to cast doubt on individuals whose ideas seem divorced from practicality, as seen when someone is reproachfully labeled "too visionary" for harboring unattainable schemes [4, 5]. This duality reflects literature’s ongoing dialogue between the celebration of inspired thought and the caution against flights of fancy.
- But this was not enough for him; he is a visionary painter, and in his visionariness he resembles Dante.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater - So having cleared the way, we may give a brief account of this visionary world within the crystal.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. Wells - Sudden shall skim along the dusky glades Thin airy shoals, and visionary shades.
— from The Odyssey by Homer - VISIONARY Many persons are always kept poor, because they are too visionary.
— from The art of money getting : by P. T. Barnum - The magistrate took him for a visionary.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
