How to Use liberalism in a Sentence

liberalism

noun

• The great project of liberalism (meant here in the usual sense) is to reverse this.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 8 Aug. 2022
• His life serves as a lens through which to look at liberalism.
  — Time, 29 Oct. 2022
• From then on, liberalism would be the only game in town.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 30 Mar. 2022
• All of these are the result of wild, out of control liberalism.
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 27 Apr. 2022
• Some on the right now complain about the failures of liberalism, in this larger sense.
  — WSJ, 6 May 2022
• But to me, at least, a little of his imagine-all-the-people ’70s liberalism goes a long way.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 Aug. 2021
• The United States, a young nation across the ocean, had been conceived in liberalism.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 21 Dec. 2023
• His muddled defense of liberalism comes with a heavy dose of disdain for the left.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• The play is a critique of white liberalism based on her own life, which was cut short by her battle with cancer.
  — Kinsey Crowley, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
• The travails of liberalism will not end even if Putin loses.
  — David Rieff, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2022
• The postmodernist critique of liberalism has now drifted over to the right.
  — Francis Fukuyama, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022
• As is now plain, the spread of liberalism does not by itself curtail fighting.
  — Michael Doyle, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• Their Benedict is a holy man who saved the Church from the excesses of the sixties and the tide of liberalism, and a local Church report on long-ago abuse is beside the point.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2022
• The problem with his book is that, like so much of liberalism, the arguments are not specific.
  — Mark Judge, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• This is no easy task, for liberalism boasts a long list of dogged impersonators.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• On the other side, there are the Orbán cheerleaders such as Rod Dreher and the natcons types who have given up on small-L liberalism.
  — David Harsanyi, National Review, 4 Apr. 2022
• What about the idea that integration would strengthen the forces of liberalism in China?
  — Hal Brands, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• Whose reservoir of resentment against liberalism is as wide and deep as yours.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2024
• Adam Smith has been portrayed as the father of economics, and as a founder of classical liberalism.
  — Craig Smith, National Review, 16 June 2023
• This desire to experiment can be linked to a broader sense of liberalism and curiosity about the world which emerged in the '70s.
  — Sadhbh O'Sullivan, refinery29.com, 21 Jan. 2021
• The statements are varying degrees of explicit, but all try to flesh out what their liberalism means in practice.
  — WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
• There were rainbow-flag face masks and Black Lives Matter T-shirts and buttons affirming the many other tenets of yard-sign liberalism.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2023
• Strength matched with heart is the pathway of liberalism in America today.
  — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 4 Jan. 2022
• Newer work does not let liberalism off the hook so easily.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2021
• But the answer is simpler and more profound: liberalism.
  — WSJ, 6 May 2022
• But political observers and Wiener allies say the two share a throughline in the sense that the far right loves to hate them as symbols of San Francisco liberalism.
  — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2023
• In fact, a major target of Dickens’s satire is liberalism.
  — The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• Yet Kahane burst onto the scene in 1968 arguing that liberalism now placed Jews in peril.
  — Elliot Kaufman, WSJ, 11 May 2022
• Among these errors was to see liberalism, in its classic definition of course, as achieved by egalitarianism.
  — Robert Sirico, National Review, 24 June 2024
• Roosevelt’s law-and-order strategy was successful because of its distinctive place in his overall program of redefining liberalism and the government’s role in Americans’ lives.
  — Anthony Gregory / Made By History, TIME, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024