How to Use pacifism in a Sentence

pacifism

noun

• The roots of pacifism reach back far beyond the 20th century.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• But pacifism runs deep in Japan, and though 49% of Japan’s citizens agree with the change, 47% oppose it.
  — Eric Singer, Teen Vogue, 6 Aug. 2017
• A respite from the blood and violence of this show, Ray and The Hound discuss violence vs. pacifism.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 6 June 2016
• The pacifism of climate activists appears in two main forms, Malm observes.
  — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 26 May 2021
• Trying to cash in on the assumed pacifism of Germans is an old strategy.
  — Patrick Donahue, Bloomberg.com, 17 May 2017
• This issue has been contentious in Japan, where many people think seven decades of pacifism has served them well.
  — Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2018
• In spite of the Quaker tradition of pacifism, Butler believed in the mission.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 11 Jan. 2022
• Ono’s pacifism has never been flown in for the occasion, like a tearful Oscar’s speech.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2022
• But his appeasement and pacifism had sown the seeds for a global conflagration soon to come.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, The Mercury News, 13 Apr. 2017
• Abe has long pursued a campaign to move Japan beyond its postwar pacifism.
  — Motoko Rich, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2020
• But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has upended 200 years of global pacifism for the children of the Vikings.
  — Helene Cooper, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• Because the Bible talks about Christ as a pacifist, Mennonites believe in pacifism.
  — Jakob Schiller, WIRED, 14 Sep. 2012
• As the First World War began, pacifism fell out of vogue, and football was valorized as a means of instilling manly values in boys.
  — Ingfei Chen, The New Yorker, 11 Feb. 2023
• But Japanese people are proud of their pacifism and keen to stay out of other countries’ affairs.
  — The Economist, 10 Aug. 2019
• Contrary to the pacifism of the group, Alfa employs more violent tactics to fight fascism.
  — Sheena Scott, Forbes, 8 May 2021
• After 1933, the rise of Hitler forced Einstein to concede that pure pacifism was no longer realistic.
  — Mitch Waldrop, National Geographic, 19 Apr. 2017
• American pacifism’s been shaped by the Vietnam War for half a century.
  — Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• That quality, along with conscience, is what draws me toward pacifism now.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• Published in 1936, it was read by some as a parable about pacifism and disobedience (and banned in fascist Spain and Germany by Franco and Hitler).
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2023
• Marko’s troubled relationship with pacifism both stems from childhood abuse and his fear of his own bloodlust.
  — Shaan Amin, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2018
• To an extent, pacifism has served as a kind of balm for many Germans, who, given the extent of German crimes under Nazism, see no other moral way forward.
  — James Angelos, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• His pacifism was reinforced early by his father, who was an army doctor.
  — Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2019
• Germany increased its defense budget despite a long stance of pacifism after World War II.
  — Phil McCausland, NBC news, 9 May 2022
• Richardson’s pacifism was of supreme importance to him, alongside his passion for science.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 7 June 2022
• Weber, for years, had dismissed both pacifism and revolution as naive.
  — George Blaustein, The New Republic, 2 July 2020
• That history, and the decades of relative pacifism that followed for Germany, played a significant role in its reluctance to send the tanks.
  — Eric Nagourney, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2023
• The shady 34-acre campus shared the same values as his parents: diversity, tolerance and pacifism.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2019
• Working-class Labour supporters are also leery of Corbyn’s pacifism and sympathies for groups like Hamas.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Aug. 2017
• As Japan takes steps away from pacifism, protesters have accused him of to trying to return to the nation's imperialist past.
  — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 29 Sep. 2015
• The 2023 reimagining keeps the bones of the character and story — Vash’s pacifism, embattled relationship with his brother, his giving nature to the belabored citizens of this world.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 31 May 2024

Last Updated: 23 Oct 2024