How to Use agitprop in a Sentence

agitprop

noun
  • And the best stuff is hard to find amid the rows and rows of agitprop.
    Jason Kehe, Wired, 7 July 2021
  • But then the show became a strident piece of agitprop that strained credulity.
    Omid Khazani and Henry Chu, Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
  • As Kline freely admits, works like these verge on agitprop.
    Zoë Lescaze, New York Times, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Twice a week, Leshchenko appears in the room to record a short video debunking the latest in Russian agitprop.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • At one end, perhaps, is blunt agitprop, and at the other is pure abstraction.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Every year the Mime Troupe premieres a new agitprop musical and performs it for free at outdoor venues around the Bay Area.
    Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 9 July 2019
  • This modern retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus — who travels to hell to retrieve his beloved Eurydice — seemed too much like agitprop in 2019.
    Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2021
  • First-rate agitprop has a way of drifting far from its primary causes.
    Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2017
  • Ken Loach’s brutally moving agitprop drama demands a thought be spared for the anonymous souls who drop this stuff off.
    Wesley Morris, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
  • Last Friday night, then, the delegations marched into Beijing’s arena of agitprop, and the rebels stayed behind the scenes.
    Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022
  • Hodgkinson had spouted far left agitprop for some time before making his way east.
    Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 17 June 2017
  • To the contrary, a nation facing real threats can’t afford such agitprop.
    Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 29 Dec. 2022
  • It’s hard to give a good performance in a piece of agitprop: Heavy-duty ideas have a way of steamrolling actual human beings.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 5 July 2018
  • Now the idea of California being the source of all evil is hardly novel in the annals of conservative agitprop, at least since the GOP lost its grip on the state in the 21st century.
    Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Every ruling class needs propaganda, and Ready Player One is agitprop for the geek gods that reign on the Internet.
    Ryan Smith, Chicago Reader, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Those seeking explicit pro-choice agitprop won’t find it here.
    A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 7 July 2022
  • Now Is Not the Time to Panic, the tender offbeat tale of two teen misfits who find a cure for their summer boredom by going viral — if that were yet a term in the analog mid-'90s — with their own homegrown agitprop.
    Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 8 Nov. 2022
  • But beyond the hyperbole and agitprop expected from the likes of such NGOs, even seasoned observers of oil markets seem to have taken to media-lynching the Saudis.
    Tilak Doshi, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The film approaches the relentlessness of agitprop, yet its message is finely honed.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
  • But as a solution to the league’s persistent optics problem, the NFL on Nick is like a spoonful of agitprop, coating professional football in sugar and slime.
    Jake Nevins, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2022
  • In a dystopian twist, the ever-expanding void left in the wake of all this creative destruction is being filled by websites masquerading as local news outlets that serve up right-wing agitprop.
    Libby Watson, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2019
  • Broker may be too sappy for some, and at times it could be taken for pro-life agitprop, but I was warmed by its portrait of child-rearing as a communal responsibility.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 28 May 2022
  • Earlier that year, audiences had fallen hard for the ancien-régime agitprop of Downton Abbey, which premiered in January.
    Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 12 July 2018
  • Add media songbirds chirping economic-killing agitprop—No-Grows with a megaphone.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 30 Oct. 2022
  • One of the hallmarks of these prior conferences was political agitprop.
    Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 23 May 2010
  • And the percentage of people and organizations with the time, persistence and skill to ferret out the truth is not high — raising the danger that attitudes will be formed, and actions taken, under the influence of agitprop.
    New York Times, 29 Sep. 2017
  • Over the next seven years, as a member of the Klezmorim, Wishnefsky toured the country and the world, performing infectious Jewish dance tunes and irreverent, agitprop, vaudevillesque humor.
    Mike Sager, Esquire, 4 June 2015
  • Tübke painted gargantuan agitprop pieces, but in the manner of Tintoretto.
    Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
  • This agitprop is paired with the infiltration of institutions.
    Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2018
  • This advice comes free of medicinal aftertaste or agitprop.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2019

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