Tropicália was part of an international revolutionary impulse, and it had to go.
Despite its originally revolutionary impulses, Modernist painting now serves mainly to decorate the homes of the comfortably wealthy.
The revolutionary impulses of avant-garde design died out, leaving a set of formal rules and mechanical techniques that could be adapted to any program or client.
This is a message to crush your healthy revolutionary impulses when you are standing in a supermarket checkout line and your feet are killing you.
Since crushing revolutionary impulses is vital to perpetuating everything exactly as it now exists, the creation and exposure of celebrities is a major media task.
Can this contradictory program contain the revolutionary political impulses that have been shaking the world?
He traced both the industrial and the revolutionary impulses through various union movements ever since.
Accordingly, much of the revolutionary impulse in the Rhineland in 1848 was colored by a strong anti-Prussian feeling.
It will mark the final subversion of rock's revolutionary impulses: kiss and kill, one might say.
His revolutionary impulse, says Mr. Solomon, was "born out of a mother's dissatisfaction and ambition," not an uncommon propulsive force for young artists.