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
• Like Effective Altruism, his longtermism comes topped with a healthy dollop of careerism.
  — Alexander Zaitchik, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Proponents of changes to the publishing system often argue that traditional academic journals are gatekeepers and that careerism gives scientists incentives to guide their research to fit the tastes of journal editors, who are often older white men.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• Extending their doofus-and-diva act to the classrooms, corridors, and teachers’ lounge transfers their personal careerism into a facetious representation of a major social institution.
  — Armond White, National Review, 13 Apr. 2022
• The book’s command of contemporary-hipster details is wincingly precise, and Caleb’s voice, initially charming, gradually reveals his incompetent careerism.
  — The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Oct 2024