How to Use careerism in a Sentence

careerism

noun

• She was appalled by his careerism.
• That question went to the heart of Scorsese’s careerism, though some viewers fell for the movie’s virtue-signaling hype.
  — Armond White, National Review, 8 Nov. 2023
• In our era of fervid careerism and content creation, this seems almost like a form of madness.
  — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2022
• By the end of the decade, glamour was back, as was the economy, and as the ’80s beckoned, celebrity, wealth, and careerism began to play a central role in fashion.
  — Stephen Mooallem, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Aug. 2017
• The war had pitted Harvard students’ careerism against their idealism, and in many cases the careerism had won.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2023
• Gone are dumb adolescent antics; replacing them are jokes about careerism, the fear of settling down, and the perils of being young parents.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• The Wrap can’t bring itself to admit that Welker’s left-feminist careerism is used to dress up Meet the Press as serious journalism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
• Like Effective Altruism, his longtermism comes topped with a healthy dollop of careerism.
  — Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2022
• The film capture the odd twists of fate and careerism that had a band that was getting booed off the stage in Akron clubs suddenly, within a period of years, being welcomed onto the squarest TV shows in America.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 21 Jan. 2024
• Careerism and ideology at the top sometimes undermine the work of patriotic and gifted case officers in the rank and file.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2017
• If his dramatic lack of careerism is singular, so too is the motivation behind his work.
  — Asali Solomon, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• Barlow’s games tackle adult themes such as love, jealousy, gender politics and careerism.
  — Chris Byrd, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2019
• The upstart Carlin was sidling uncomfortably close to charging Wengrow with sycophancy or even careerism.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022
• Every one of them put party and personal careerism before country.
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 23 Aug. 2020
• Jansons regarded careerism in music as a troubling trend.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
• The long term fix of course is to reform the professional system and the culture of careerism so that what is rewarded is genuine productivity, rather than signalling.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Dec. 2012
• Sometimes it's misinterpreted as careerism or jumping from place to place.
  — CBS News, 25 Aug. 2021
• Each hack walks through the technical processes of their careerism — the paths to power learned by DuVernay and her Array production company.
  — Armond White, National Review, 23 Mar. 2022
• No careerism, no politics, just straight up assault on an insurmountable problem.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Oct. 2012
• To do it in a spirit of political careerism, and the need to put something seemingly new and exciting in front of a mob that has grown jaded and bored by its own prosperity, is morally indefensible.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 19 Nov. 2019
• That dedication to scientific truth above careerism — his openness didn’t endear him to the powers that be — defined his professional life.
  — Sharon Begley, STAT, 20 Dec. 2019
• At the same time, not every culpable police action is motivated by careerism or dishonesty of purpose.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• Tines take us through their parallel journeys from traditional careerism to becoming themselves.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
• All the characters experience the crushing weight of Stalinism: the inability to speak freely, the military’s political careerism and a growing Russian anti-Semitism.
  — Wendy Z. Goldman, WSJ, 21 May 2021
• Suburban sprawl, environmental negligence and the emphasis on careerism were unfortunate turnoffs from being among the first students at California Institute of the Arts, when the college opened in 1971.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 3 May 2018
• The American invasion of Iraq shows that no such coercion is necessary; bureaucratic deference to authority and routine careerism can keep people in line just fine.
  — Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Often in these stories, the two are bound together in a hyper-individualistic fusion of romantic careerism.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• But her tenure at Our Revolution has been marked by accusations of mismanagement and self-interested careerism.
  — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 21 May 2018
• The script’s tut-tutting sketch of Gemma’s cold careerism, indifferent parenting, and hubristic engineering is suspended in a void that’s filled merely by Williams’s actorly presence and her recognizable persona.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2023
• The Fabelmans combines family therapy with Hollywood egotism, letting careerism heals all wounds.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024