How to Use fundamentalism in a Sentence

fundamentalism

noun
  • The path to this fundamentalism was paved with stones of hypocrisy.
    Bethany McLean, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The New Atheists craved the first kind of fundamentalism and now decry the latter.
    Samuel James, National Review, 14 Feb. 2020
  • Much of the root cause could be traced to Islamic fundamentalism that arose in the 1980s in countries like Iran.
    Justin Klawans, The Week, 24 Nov. 2022
  • And a lot of this book turns on a kind of an upswing in religious fundamentalism.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The medium-term cause of the rise of Hindu fundamentalism is the steady growth and consolidation of the RSS.
    Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 15 Aug. 2017
  • DeLong makes a strong case that the turn in the 1980s to market fundamentalism was a dismal economic failure.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2022
  • And every fundamentalism does a violence to the text that supports it, right?
    Celeste Sloman, Town & Country, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Then, a new brand of religious fundamentalism takes hold in Tunisia.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Still, many of the militia’s members didn’t feel like their government was doing enough to protect them from the rising tide of fundamentalism.
    Jessica Pressler, Daily Intelligencer, 12 Dec. 2017
  • The Mullahs regime is the center of export of terrorism and fundamentalism.
    Eric Shawn, Fox News, 30 June 2018
  • In the 1940s, evangelical fundamentalism began to grow in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
    Jeremy Schwartz and Jessica Priest, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Sharifi had already received death threats for her work when her homeland fell in August 2021 to the Taliban and its rigid fundamentalism.
    Dallas News, 25 Oct. 2022
  • Religious fundamentalism is one of the strangest things.
    David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 12 July 2021
  • But Umrigar, whose eight previous novels have been set in both the United States and India, knows fundamentalism can spring from any faith.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Fear of Islamic fundamentalism is a populist refrain for the right.
    Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2018
  • Readers lacking knowledge of the Pilgrim family will miss a lot of the jokes, although the mockery of fundamentalism will be easily grasped.
    Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Aug. 2017
  • Ishiguro came of age as a writer in the early 1980s, when market fundamentalism was sweeping Britain and the West, a development that caught him entirely off guard.
    New York Times, 23 Feb. 2021
  • The film, which follows rebellious young women who refuse to bow down to fundamentalism, could not be released in Algeria but went on to represent the country at the Oscars.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Above all, John Kerry and Democrats understand that those who would spread radical fundamentalism and weapons of mass destruction are beyond the reach of reason.
    WSJ, 26 Aug. 2021
  • The victim, of both the rapist and Lloyd's fundamentalism, was in federal detention at the time, awaiting resettlement.
    Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • As the country’s right wing has gained influence, Ilan Ber has become more worried about the growing dominance of fundamentalism in public life.
    Shira Rubin, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In Mexico, there are many other forms of this fundamentalism.
    Wendy Fry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Jan. 2022
  • What’s funny is that even as both parties drift away from market fundamentalism, market-style reforms are the most fertile ground for compromise.
    Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • Moore also expressed concern that the Taliban would set back advances for women in Afghanistan, but argued that religious fundamentalism is prevalent in the U.S., as well.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Christopher Hitchens, who became a friend of Rushdie, denounced Islamic fundamentalism and made that an important theme of his writing in his later years.
    Aryeh Neier, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2022
  • And so, with political parties that are rooted in this fundamentalism, there's a lot of rhetoric going on in Puerto Rico also, that leads to some of this violence.
    Shannon Rae Green, USA TODAY, 20 May 2021
  • That story begins in Chicago, where Fisher grew up in a household defined by rigid fundamentalism.
    Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The two men would go on to fuel the forces of religious fundamentalism and ethnic nationalism that were to pose such challenges to liberal societies.
    Margaret MacMillan, WSJ, 28 Dec. 2018
  • This is Jones' great hope: that enough Republicans turned off by Moore's religious fundamentalism or the scandalous headlines will cast their ballots for somebody else.
    Paul Singer, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2017
  • There are questions about free speech and religious fundamentalism, mythmaking and liberty, technology and scientific study, race, viral pandemics, animal rights and a whole lot more woven throughout the movies.
    Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 15 May 2024

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