How to Use industrialism in a Sentence

industrialism

noun
  • There are lessons that don’t come easily for many of us raised in late-stage industrialism.
    Florence Williams, Outside Online, 1 Jan. 2020
  • Have the promises of human freedom and a meaningful life been betrayed by a bloated and out of scale industrialism?
    Harrison Stetler, The New York Review of Books, 21 Jan. 2020
  • In Pursuit of the Object, at a Proper Distance presents a monument of industrialism as a metaphor for an overwhelming problem.
    Jakob Schiller, WIRED, 6 Mar. 2015
  • At the center of this fractured saga, whose companion pieces will touch on American utopianism and the birth of 20th-century industrialism, is the eponymous Lydie Breeze.
    Julia M. Klein, Philly.com, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Fortune shows the prevalence of industrialism in Texas and, even more intensely, its proximity to human life.
    Wired Photo Department, Wired, 21 Dec. 2021
  • In their own ways, each company has grown to become modern symbols of American industrialism and down-to-earth luxury.
    Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The two American brands teamed up to create a modern, urban collection that exudes warm industrialism: think black, white, and gold Moroccan shag rugs, walnut wood desks, and tawny leather couches.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Another new name on the scene is Elena Velez, who takes inspiration from her Wisconsin roots to create fashion that merges on Midwest industrialism and chic apocalyptic.
    Kristen Bateman, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The Liberal Party’s drive to separate church and state had become viable, as industrialism, nationalism, and secularism rose to prominence.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 May 2017
  • This is a city at the intersection of minimalism and maximalism, of industrialism and colonialism, of modernity and history.
    Natalie Stoclet, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The poems address race, labor, industrialism, the region’s indigenous people, and the powerful interplay — sometimes cruel, sometimes nurturing — of people on the environment and the environment on the people.
    BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
  • Under both capitalism and socialism, industrialism was celebrated as bringing modernity and progress, worth the decades of struggle, upheaval, and violence.
    David Sessions, The New Republic, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Confederates boasted that their antebellum culture was more romantic, natural, pristine, healthy and moral than was the bustle, grime and hyper-capitalism of Northern industrialism.
    Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2017
  • That changed during the early nineteenth century, when booming industrialism called for new specialists, and inequalities intensified across explosive growth.
    Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2022
  • Sherrell does not offer statistics to support his assertions about the environmental impact of industrialism, colonialism and capitalism.
    Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The weekend, for example, was invented about a hundred years ago, a compromise struck between religiosity and management culture, and facilitated by the specific economic and political conditions of late industrialism.
    Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 6 July 2022

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