How to Use absolutism in a Sentence

absolutism

noun

• And yet Brown steered away from the language of absolutism.
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2018
• There was in her arms and legs and head and heart a kind of absolutism that was almost joy.
  — Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• But for Mah and his peers who oppose the Back to Fitrah message, this absolutism is the crux of the issue.
  — NBC News, 3 Apr. 2018
• Then there’s the question of Musk’s alleged free-speech absolutism.
  — Russ Mitchellstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2022
• The moral absolutism of Miller's play is likely best suited for the teenagers the Steppenwolf is aiming this run at.
  — Chicago Reader, 12 Oct. 2017
• Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion late last month having pledged to bring his vision of free speech absolutism to the site.
  — Luis Melgar, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2022
• In its early years, Reddit was known as a platform for free-speech absolutism.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
• Musk's free speech absolutism, Daniyal says, doesn't make much sense in India because there have not been many curbs on speech on the platform to begin with.
  — Barbara Ortutay, ajc, 14 May 2022
• Musk’s free speech absolutism, Daniyal says, doesn’t make much sense in India because there have not been many curbs on speech on the platform to begin with.
  — Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2022
• Media love storylines and fans love absolutism so none of us give luck enough credit.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 20 Mar. 2018
• In the rush to modernize, young people in the best schools saw too much sameness, a severe, stern absolutism and obsession with function.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Feb. 2020
• But the most striking element is the whiff of emotional absolutism.
  — D.j. Taylor, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
• Greene’s warning about the absolutism of rights in the hands of judges shows why political decision-making needs to be wrested from them in the coming years.
  — Samuel Moyn, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
• By the 1990s, the party had moved dramatically to the right, and the divisions were no longer about ideology but about absolutism.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 20 Jan. 2022
• At every turn, the characters are forced to make brutal calculations in which moral absolutism is pitted against the greater good.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• And so the dangers of organized fascism mitigate the benefits of a free speech absolutism.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 7 Sep. 2017
• At the time, Wong’s free-speech absolutism was ubiquitous in Silicon Valley.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
• Narain has a penchant for David-and-Goliath fights, and sometimes her absolutism led to frictions, even within the league of developing countries.
  — Marcello Rossi, Smithsonian, 15 Sep. 2017
• His thoughts on slavery offer a warning about the dangers of reading a religious text written thousands of years ago with naïve absolutism.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2022
• Even before Musk took ownership of then-Twitter, experts worried that his particular brand of free speech absolutism would lead to a flood of trolls and hate speech on the platform.
  — WIRED, 17 Nov. 2023
• Some fret about the slide toward absolutism in central European countries ranging from Poland to Turkey.
  — Steven Rattner, New York Times, 7 June 2018
• This search for absolutism has led, ironically, to a sense of greater arbitrariness.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• But the officials, looking at the squalor of the cat dwellings, said the situation was more complicated than social media absolutism.
  — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
• Yet tens of millions of Americans seem undeterred by the prospect of absolutism, cruelty, and corruption on the horizon.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
• Eric Adams, who is anti-remote-work and pro-living-in-your-office, has relented on his return-to-office absolutism (sort of).
  — Curbed, 1 June 2023
• Nelson doesn’t disavow the current ideology of the left, but does decry its absolutism as a flattening of the discussion that prevents us from seeing ideas all the way through.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• Elon’s free speech absolutism push is definitely a hot topic on Twitter.
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• But despite its liberal ideals, Weimar Germany was not committed to free speech absolutism.
  — The Economist, 31 Jan. 2020
• The great thing about American free speech absolutism is that the implementation is relatively easy and clear.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2012
• So this really threatens James’s project of absolutism because the merchants upon whom power rested at the time were becoming more and more angry.
  — Tim Ryan Williams, Vox, 26 June 2019

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