How to Use essentialism in a Sentence

essentialism

noun

• So there is a whiff of gender essentialism of the Mars/Venus variety threaded through the script.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2018
• A lot of our answers came from essentialism, the Plato and Aristotle thing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2021
• Communities of color have always have to deal with this essentialism when one of our own commits a massacre.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• Tied in with this essentialism is the idea that humans in particular have souls (the mind-body dichotomy), or specific seats of their being.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2013
• That bears repeating: To undo the racial essentialism of D&D would drastically alter the character of the game.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 24 Jan. 2021
• Now Over the years, however, D&D has made only trivial movements away from racial essentialism.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 24 Jan. 2021
• What drives Trump is racial essentialism, a rage at the post-racial, integrative center that the mixed-race Obama represented.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 18 May 2018
• Now, in the shadow of electrification, Lotus’s lo-fi essentialism has become quite chic and collectible.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• On the first level, that idea could be leveraged to get women opportunities to tell some stories, but also to reinforce a gender essentialism that shuts them out of other projects.
  — Alyssa Rosenberg, The Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2017
• The essentialism examined in Descarte's Baby is being taken for another spin, though with a more precise focus.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 June 2010
• The psychologist Paul Bloom, among others, has written about the tendency toward innate essentialism (see a Descartes' Baby) at length.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 Mar. 2013
• The world of Middle-earth betrays forms of paternalism, imperialism, and racial essentialism that have no use today.
  — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2017
• Except that among testers who claimed no knowledge of genetics, race essentialism increased nearly 12 percent.
  — Caitlin Harrington, Wired, 2 Oct. 2020
• Kwan’s theory of Chinese identity is marked by a similar tinge of essentialism.
  — Jenny G. Zhang, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• As a result of this essentialism, Bacevich glosses over a vital point about the Middle East today: A historic and brutal struggle between radicals and modernists for the future of the region is underway.
  — David Rohde, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2016
• At the very least, Yellowjackets—a superb Showtime thriller that riffs on Flies without repeating it—suggests the author’s benevolent gender essentialism might have been a mistake.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 5 Nov. 2021
• There was also a lot of blather about that season's philosophical earworms, from cancel culture to gender essentialism.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 31 Mar. 2022
• With a writer as talented as Giffels, though, this reader could accept the bromances and the gender essentialism as the prices of an emotionally satisfying narrative.
  — Samuel G. Freedman, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017
• One of the most important practical applications of essentialism is being able to pivot quickly.
  — Marianella Manzur, Forbes, 6 July 2022
• The first furry PubMed hit was this one from earlier this year, which studied ‘Biological essentialism in a stigmatized fan community’.
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2014
• In the writing process, Docter delved into research on essentialism, nihilism and existentialism to better articulate the plight of his characters.
  — Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2020
• This belief in essences, called essentialism, is compellingly intuitive.
  — Lisa Feldman Barrett, Scientific American, 27 Apr. 2022
• This is sometimes called psychological essentialism — or seeing your brain function as destiny.
  — Leah Shaffer, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2020
• More recently, many of these traditions are intentionally expanding to reject ideas of gender essentialism and embrace a range of identities.
  — Alyssa Beall, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
• The ire towards Midler was especially intense as such hand-wringing about gender-neutral language is often a hallmark of the gender essentialism that defines the anti-trans and trans-exclusionary feminist movements.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 July 2022
• Doing so re-creates the same gender essentialism, in which certain traits are supposedly masculine or feminine, that Rosalind obliterates.
  — Mike Fischer, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2017
• Finally, true believers in racial essentialism have always twisted scientific results to support their views.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Mar. 2023
• Relaying tales of natural women through a supernatural grammar flips essentialism on its head; these accounts offer up feminine bodies and performance at once.
  — Amanda Hess, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2019
• This has often resulted in perpetuating ideas about racial essentialism rather than questioning how race is constantly constructed.
  — Kerri Greenidge, The New Republic, 14 June 2021
• Passages like this one, which directly contradict their characterization of the book’s alleged determinism, reductionism, and essentialism, are easy to find!
  — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, 21 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024