How to Use communitarian in a Sentence

communitarian

adjective

• At that point, Emerson was dallying with communitarian ideals, and doubtless found the idea of a house guest more palatable than carting manure at the nearby utopian compound of Brook Farm.
  — James Marcus, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• But many of us are now also facing the facts with despair, and here, neither tribal resentment nor communitarian enclosure will heal the soul.
  — James Poulos, Orange County Register, 18 Mar. 2017
• The Scandinavian farmers who settled there in the 1800s had brought with them a communitarian mind-set born of necessity.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 11 July 2018
• Both democratic-egalitarian and communitarian ideas have a rich lineage in left-of-center thought.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020
• The communitarian-curious among U.K. conservatives are at risk of losing their connection with the public.
  — Charlie Peters, National Review, 30 Dec. 2020
• As scientists began to appreciate the importance of microbe-plant partnerships, at least in outline, many came to see the natural world as a cooperative, even communitarian kind of place.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
• This kind of engaged piety, turning religious conviction into communitarian action, is widely seen as one of the most important progressive innovations of the Catholic Church in Latin America.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 25 June 2019
• Europeans had more rights, but adopted them in a more communitarian spirit, reconciling them with other commitments.
  — Samuel Moyn, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
• Nonprofits are supposed to be nongovernmental, a communitarian response to big government and big business.
  — Nives Dolšak, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• Hilly or mountainous regions with small livestock holdings, like Ireland and the Basque country, often tend towards more communitarian political traditions.
  — The Economist, 29 Aug. 2019
• In a misguided, contrarian reading of Capra’s communitarian masterpiece, Deneen asserts that George Bailey, its hero, is actually a villain.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
• The Progressive Era also involved an equilibrium between a communitarian ethos and the liberal credo of individual freedom.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2022

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