How to Use communalism in a Sentence

communalism

noun

• When the American dream is framed as independence rather than communalism, the benefits of city life start to seem like detriments instead.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 19 June 2020
• The most harmless version of modern communalism is passionate fandom for a sports team, but even here Pessoa remained an outsider.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
• While Owen and Maclure had grand visions for a society based on communalism, kindness, education, and equality, the community’s day-to-day life was a mess.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 5 Aug. 2019
• The communalism, however, would have been recognizable to anyone that ever watched two runway contestants battle to the last death drop.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2022
• In short, John Locke’s ideas are part of the reason there’s limited class consciousness in this country, and why our culture emphasizes individualism over communalism.
  — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2022
• One based on values of communalism, kindness, and generosity.
  — Leora Smith, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• One detects in Ferris, a former ad copywriter, a freelancer’s unanticipated nostalgia for the communalism of gossip by the copy machine and desultory Nerf ball tossing.
  — Will Blythe, New York Times, 10 May 2017
• So why has this generation of stage, television and cinematic impresarios found new resonance in this old form of communalism?
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• To stem the tide, to prevent a swift decline into communalism and authoritarianism, the outrage seen on the streets will need to translate into a robust and organized political opposition.
  — Madhav Khosla, Time, 6 Jan. 2020
• Murugan’s latest novel folds the violent repressions of contemporary India — the casteism and communalism — into the biography of a deeply unlucky little goat.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party has injected a toxic communalism into the Indian body politic, creating the space for lynchings and other extra-judicial crimes to occur with alarming frequency.
  — Amar Diwakar, New Republic, 19 Sep. 2017
• Societal structures shaped by oppressive structural forces of casteism, classism, communalism, elitism, and patriarchy render a certain section vulnerable.
  — Anup Agarwal & Yogesh Jain, Quartz India, 29 Mar. 2020
• India’s courts are woefully backlogged, and rising communalism clashes – sometimes violently – with equally rising demands for individual rights.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
• Between communitarianism and selfishness, between communalism and capitalism.
  — Lauren Puckett, Town & Country, 4 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024