How to Use revisionism in a Sentence

revisionism

noun

• There’s no revisionism in what those four years were like.
  — Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2020
• But plenty will say in private that some of the #MeToo stories seem to stray into revisionism.
  — The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
• One crucial difference between the 1930s and today is the scale of the revisionism.
  — Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2024
• The matter is murky, as Spears does not control the rights to her own catalog - which could enhance the framing of the show’s fairytale revisionism.
  — Lee Seymour, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• But the ambiguities of the case don’t make for easy revisionism.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• The context for this strange story is the historical revisionism of Law and Justice, the far-right party that has been in power in Poland since 2015.
  — Amos Barshad, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• This was not the first time Abbas has been accused of antisemitism and Holocaust revisionism.
  — Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
• This was not the first time Mr. Abbas has been accused of antisemitism and Holocaust revisionism.
  — Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• At first, the revisionism plays like a fun thought experiment.
  — Jason Parham, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
• There couldn’t be a revisionism just by making the northerners the villains, at the time there was xenophobia, hate and violence all around.
  — Emiliano Granada, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
• Cruella is the latest entry in the thriving genre of villain revisionism.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
• In history and pop culture, a wave of revisionism has subtly cleaned up the agency’s image.
  — Greg Barnhisel, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2020
• Then the mask slid back down on Sunday as the far-right Presidential nominee reminded the world that Holocaust revisionism still lives in the Front.
  — WSJ, 10 Apr. 2017
• Such revisionism is just too bald for even the most sympathetic to Barton's worldview.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2012
• Some call it revisionism that removes blame from Poles who collaborated with the Nazis and murdered Jews.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2021
• The revisionism comes under L. Francis Cissna, the Trump appointee in charge of the agency that issues green cards and grants citizenship.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 25 Feb. 2018
• Nor was the chassis impressed with my midcourse revisionism.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• Some viewers bristled at its preachy revisionism while others simply couldn't be bothered to turn out for what was, by one count, the fourth attempt to reboot James Cameron's franchise.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 1 June 2022
• But the wave of revisionism has accelerated and grown mainstream in recent decades, especially with the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the decline of the Congress.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
• This combination of subtle and brazen nationalist revisionism captures the two-and-a-half years of PiS rule.
  — The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
• Perhaps a similar revisionism will emerge about the years of Tory misrule.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
• The Marcoses’ online revisionism project dates back to the 2000s through the family’s presence on Friendster, Flickr and other now defunct websites, researchers found.
  — Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
• As bracing as such revisionism can be, Barker’s rewriting of Homer had crippling defects.
  — Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• Typical of fandom revisionism, years of engaging Star Wars cartoons plus comics and novels have made fans change their tune and warm up to Ahsoka.
  — Eric Francisco, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• Chinese revisionism, backed by Beijing’s ability to cater to the global South’s economic needs, could be more appealing to a lot of countries.
  — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 25 Dec. 2023
• This new version of events marked the most blatant and audacious attempt yet at sweeping historical revisionism of last year’s protests.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2020
• Zambra is hopeful that the revisionism will bring people closer to Neruda’s poems.
  — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
• Their reckless revisionism could also have more tragic consequences down the road.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 July 2021
• Their last album, 2019’s Social Cues, circled around theme of rock stat malaise, a less-than-universal concept the band salvaged with a set of songs that cleverly mixed Sixties traditionalism and Eighties revisionism.
  — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 22 May 2024
• Disco brings an unusually nuanced perspective to this revisionism, noting upsides as well as downsides to the genre’s gentrification and never losing sight of music as a business.
  — Judy Berman, TIME, 28 June 2024

Last Updated: 27 Nov 2024