How to Use fundamentalism in a Sentence

fundamentalism

noun

• The path to this fundamentalism was paved with stones of hypocrisy.
  — Bethany McLean, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
• The New Atheists craved the first kind of fundamentalism and now decry the latter.
  — Samuel James, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020
• Much of the root cause could be traced to Islamic fundamentalism that arose in the 1980s in countries like Iran.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 24 Nov. 2022
• And a lot of this book turns on a kind of an upswing in religious fundamentalism.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2021
• The medium-term cause of the rise of Hindu fundamentalism is the steady growth and consolidation of the RSS.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017
• DeLong makes a strong case that the turn in the 1980s to market fundamentalism was a dismal economic failure.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
• And every fundamentalism does a violence to the text that supports it, right?
  — Celeste Sloman, Town & Country, 23 Sep. 2019
• Then, a new brand of religious fundamentalism takes hold in Tunisia.
  — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2024
• Still, many of the militia’s members didn’t feel like their government was doing enough to protect them from the rising tide of fundamentalism.
  — Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Dec. 2017
• The Christian fundamentalism that begat the state law that John Scopes violated has not gone away.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2024
• The Mullahs regime is the center of export of terrorism and fundamentalism.
  — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 30 June 2018
• In the 1940s, evangelical fundamentalism began to grow in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
  — Jeremy Schwartz and Jessica Priest, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2022
• Sharifi had already received death threats for her work when her homeland fell in August 2021 to the Taliban and its rigid fundamentalism.
  — Dallas News, 25 Oct. 2022
• Religious fundamentalism is one of the strangest things.
  — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 12 July 2021
• But Umrigar, whose eight previous novels have been set in both the United States and India, knows fundamentalism can spring from any faith.
  — Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022
• Fear of Islamic fundamentalism is a populist refrain for the right.
  — Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
• Readers lacking knowledge of the Pilgrim family will miss a lot of the jokes, although the mockery of fundamentalism will be easily grasped.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
• Ishiguro came of age as a writer in the early 1980s, when market fundamentalism was sweeping Britain and the West, a development that caught him entirely off guard.
  — New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• The film, which follows rebellious young women who refuse to bow down to fundamentalism, could not be released in Algeria but went on to represent the country at the Oscars.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 Oct. 2022
• Above all, John Kerry and Democrats understand that those who would spread radical fundamentalism and weapons of mass destruction are beyond the reach of reason.
  — WSJ, 26 Aug. 2021
• The victim, of both the rapist and Lloyd's fundamentalism, was in federal detention at the time, awaiting resettlement.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• As the country’s right wing has gained influence, Ilan Ber has become more worried about the growing dominance of fundamentalism in public life.
  — Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
• In Mexico, there are many other forms of this fundamentalism.
  — Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2022
• What’s funny is that even as both parties drift away from market fundamentalism, market-style reforms are the most fertile ground for compromise.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
• Moore also expressed concern that the Taliban would set back advances for women in Afghanistan, but argued that religious fundamentalism is prevalent in the U.S., as well.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
• Christopher Hitchens, who became a friend of Rushdie, denounced Islamic fundamentalism and made that an important theme of his writing in his later years.
  — Aryeh Neier, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2022
• And so, with political parties that are rooted in this fundamentalism, there's a lot of rhetoric going on in Puerto Rico also, that leads to some of this violence.
  — Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 20 May 2021
• That story begins in Chicago, where Fisher grew up in a household defined by rigid fundamentalism.
  — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
• The two men would go on to fuel the forces of religious fundamentalism and ethnic nationalism that were to pose such challenges to liberal societies.
  — Margaret MacMillan, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
• The largest contingent, however, comprised those whose religious lineages could be traced directly back to fundamentalism.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024