How to Use conservatism in a Sentence

conservatism

noun
  • As the voice grew stronger, Marghetis felt that matches became a kind of argument between the natural conservatism of his body and his coach’s voice.
    T. M. Luhrmann, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022
  • And so that association sometimes means that classical music has a kind of conservatism.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Nor is his Russia an example for American conservatism.
    Joseph S. Laughon, National Review, 2 Mar. 2022
  • In the past 20 years or more American conservatism transformed to antiscience populism.
    Wendy E. Parmet, Scientific American, 17 Feb. 2022
  • No embers of fiscal conservatism, global leadership, or moral decency.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 July 2024
  • Toward the end of the aughts, as President Barack Obama’s first term wore on, Dans’ conservatism began to take on a new shape.
    Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Fishkin and Forbath trace the rise of today’s constitutional conservatism back to the moment when the other two were jettisoned.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Who wants to build up the hub of conservatism in the state of Alaska?
    Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Portions of the city are a bedrock of Arizona conservatism.
    Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Any American conservatism worthy of the name will stand for the rule of law.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 May 2024
  • The particulars of Fox’s mood, and its conservatism, adapted and evolved with the eras.
    James Poniewozik, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2023
  • But conservatism is, in many ways, baked into the business.
    Katie Thornton, Rolling Stone, 21 Jan. 2024
  • There was, in short, very little demand for a new form of conservatism.
    Barton Swaim, WSJ, 15 July 2022
  • Throughout the 1980s, the forces of reform and conservatism raged, often within the same person.
    Chang Che, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2022
  • New Right conservatism was premised to a great extent on the idea that the social fabric was torn to pieces by the tumultuous 1960s.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Why? Michael Oakeshott understood that conservatism changes with the times.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 23 Feb. 2024
  • That’s not to say that Hawley’s version of conservatism is anathema to the right.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 26 July 2022
  • The customs recall an era of a kinder, more genteel conservatism.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • East Tennessee is the pocket of conservatism in the United States.
    Jon Brown, Fox News, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The tension between conservatism and risk played out at the U.S. box office this past weekend.
    Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Pence said the party has to choose either conservatism or populism.
    The Editors, National Review, 8 Sep. 2023
  • That is the main point of conservatism, in America: to preserve the Founding, to defend our system.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 Feb. 2024
  • The outcomes of these races look mostly set, but the margin and manner will help determine what form conservatism takes in the next two years and who will lead it.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
  • In 2024, hell hath no fury like progressives exposed to conservatism on their home turf.
    Christian Schneider, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Brainard is concerned about Glynn, who lost in the 2019 primary on a message of fiscal conservatism.
    Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 2 May 2023
  • His conservatism, clearly designed for bankers and tech workers who are worried their kids won’t get into the Ivy League, is both weird and off-putting.
    Jay Caspian Kang, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
  • What hasn’t been said as much is this: Its corruption is tied directly to its conservatism.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 5 June 2023
  • Since May, economic chaos in the U.S. and beyond has heralded a new era of careful conservatism in the Valley.
    Robert Stevens, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Timelessness, of course, can imply a sense of conservatism.
    Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Some have seen the trial as a referendum not only on his brand of populist conservatism but on Trump.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023

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