How to Use absolutism in a Sentence

absolutism

noun
  • There was in her arms and legs and head and heart a kind of absolutism that was almost joy.
    — Patricia Lockwood, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
  • Media love storylines and fans love absolutism so none of us give luck enough credit.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 20 Mar. 2018
  • In its early years, Reddit was known as a platform for free-speech absolutism.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
  • But the most striking element is the whiff of emotional absolutism.
    — D.j. Taylor, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2021
  • Everything must be done with absolutism, and those extremes must be performed in public, online.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2026
  • This search for absolutism has led, ironically, to a sense of greater arbitrariness.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Elon’s free speech absolutism push is definitely a hot topic on Twitter.
    — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Musk bought Twitter for $44 billion late last month having pledged to bring his vision of free speech absolutism to the site.
    — Luis Melgar, Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2022
  • The moral absolutism of Miller's play is likely best suited for the teenagers the Steppenwolf is aiming this run at.
    — Chicago Reader, 12 Oct. 2017
  • But for Mah and his peers who oppose the Back to Fitrah message, this absolutism is the crux of the issue.
    — NBC News, 3 Apr. 2018
  • At every turn, the characters are forced to make brutal calculations in which moral absolutism is pitted against the greater good.
    — Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
  • In the rush to modernize, young people in the best schools saw too much sameness, a severe, stern absolutism and obsession with function.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 29 Feb. 2020
  • In a still-free country, such unfettered absolutism was never sustainable.
    — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • In fact, that kind of absolutism is a good way to become part of another kind of silencing, another kind of injustice.
    — Literary Hub, 18 May 2026
  • But this conviction, this heady combination of piety and absolutism, also can be a cautionary tale.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2021
  • His thoughts on slavery offer a warning about the dangers of reading a religious text written thousands of years ago with naïve absolutism.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 July 2022
  • Musk’s free speech absolutism, Daniyal says, doesn’t make much sense in India because there have not been many curbs on speech on the platform to begin with.
    — Barbara Ortutay, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2022
  • Musk's free speech absolutism, Daniyal says, doesn't make much sense in India because there have not been many curbs on speech on the platform to begin with.
    — Barbara Ortutay, ajc, 14 May 2022
  • Greene’s warning about the absolutism of rights in the hands of judges shows why political decision-making needs to be wrested from them in the coming years.
    — Samuel Moyn, The New Republic, 9 Mar. 2021
  • The few people who are willing to defend these sites unconditionally do so from a position of free-speech absolutism.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 15 Dec. 2020
  • But despite its liberal ideals, Weimar Germany was not committed to free speech absolutism.
    — The Economist, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The result is the extreme polarization and absolutism.
    — Andrew Cuomo, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
  • Jurists appealed to the customary freedoms of a preliterate past as a legal foil to royal absolutism.
    — Kwame Anthony Appiah, The New York Review of Books, 16 Dec. 2021
  • At the time, Wong’s free-speech absolutism was ubiquitous in Silicon Valley.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
  • As Perez wrote, Musk’s free-speech absolutism was a fiction perpetuated by a pliant media.
    — Jacob Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The great thing about American free speech absolutism is that the implementation is relatively easy and clear.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2012
  • But the officials, looking at the squalor of the cat dwellings, said the situation was more complicated than social media absolutism.
    — Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • Thank goodness absolutism did not prevail at the Constitution's drafting.
    — CBS News, 7 Dec. 2019
  • Eric Adams, who is anti-remote-work and pro-living-in-your-office, has relented on his return-to-office absolutism (sort of).
    — Curbed, 1 June 2023
  • Yet tens of millions of Americans seem undeterred by the prospect of absolutism, cruelty, and corruption on the horizon.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023

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