How to Use totalitarianism in a Sentence

totalitarianism

noun

• Without us, the world would be mired in the darkness of totalitarianism rather than the light of liberty.
  — Marc A. Thiessen, The Mercury News, 10 July 2019
• This is really the essence of totalitarianism, and The Death of Stalin satirizes the hell out of it.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 27 Mar. 2018
• The moment at which a totalitarianism gets serious is the moment at which the army fires into the crowd.
  — Jackie Mansky, Smithsonian, 14 Apr. 2017
• For Ruff, the theme of totalitarianism fed into both his work and daily life.
  — Clive Martin, CNN, 5 July 2017
• The greengrocer, under totalitarianism, doesn’t and can’t have an opinion; the putting up of the sign doesn’t appear to be subject to debate.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 24 June 2020
• America is the shining city on a hill, a beacon of hope against the darkness of totalitarianism.
  — Tara Kavaler, The Arizona Republic, 28 Sep. 2022
• So Russian totalitarianism comes from the grassroots, not from the top down?
  — Simon Shuster, Time, 9 Oct. 2017
• The list then takes a turn for the macabre, with George Orwell’s 1984, a dystopian novel foretelling the societal tolls of totalitarianism, coming in third place.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Jan. 2020
• The United States claimed to be waging a war against tyranny and totalitarianism.
  — Gary Younge, The New York Review of Books, 28 Sep. 2023
• In the end, though, freedom is reduced to mainly what totalitarianism is not.
  — Andy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
• By its nature, totalitarianism conspires to keep the conscience in a state of slumber.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 15 June 2018
• By the middle of the 20th century, when the free world faced the twin perils of fascist and communist totalitarianism, the tacit had become the explicit.
  — John Hood, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
• Few images of totalitarianism are as powerful as the vision of a regime trying to conceal the demise of its cherished leader.
  — Ankit Panda, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2020
• Over the past couple of years, some have compared the human tragedy unfolding there to North Korean totalitarianism and South African apartheid.
  — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 3 Sep. 2020
• Neither Hayek nor Mao could have imagined the knowledge-fueled totalitarianism that Mr. Xi has in mind.
  — Andrew Browne, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2017
• The story ends in 1945 thanks only to the focus on Europe and the democracy-versus-totalitarianism framing, which crops empire out of the picture.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
• Gradually, the society of the resettled succumbed to the seduction of totalitarianism, like the surface of a lake caught in a cold spell.
  — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• People on the left see fascism as the endpoint of right-wing reactionary thinking, and people on the right see fascism as nanny-state totalitarianism.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 15 Dec. 2018
• Few characters validated the outsider as much as Spider-Man or the X-Men, or addressed the fears of totalitarianism head on like a horror movie, or pushed the boundaries of speech like the comics who performed blue.
  — Andy Lewis, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2021
• The first step in the march toward totalitarianism is discontent, folks.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2022
• On the right, some think the pandemic is wildly overblown and being used to introduce totalitarianism.
  — TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020
• In this form of partial totalitarianism, people have had time to adjust and experience each step in the decline from their previous way of life as a new normal.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Apr. 2023
• Part of what had drawn Gates to the Republican Party was the Reagan-era doctrine of confronting totalitarianism.
  — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
• There was idealism in the protests but also cynicism and a touch of totalitarianism.
  — Ted Van Dyk, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
• Posters calling for the liberation of Hong Kong from Chinese rule, and for the victory of democracy over totalitarianism, were plastered on the walls.
  — Nicholas Goldberg, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
• The real menace now is not communism but the rise of totalitarianism.
  — Erin Corbett, Fortune, 27 June 2019
• Set in a dystopian future version of London, the novel hit bookshelves in 1948 with a strong warning against totalitarianism.
  — Rachel Ventresca, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2023
• China is making a wrong turn toward totalitarianism under its new maximum leader, but the U.S. and the West should have confidence in freedom to prevail in the long run.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2018
• What made communism so dangerous was the theory of totalitarianism, which turned out to be wrong, but it was believed.
  — How To Save A Country, The New Republic, 4 May 2023
• Many of the series’ portrayals lack the extensive emotion needed to carry a show centering on the horrors of genocide, war and totalitarianism.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024