How to Use pacifist in a Sentence

pacifist

1 of 2 noun

• The inventor of the group and a sworn pacifist, Phastos is also the first out, gay superhero in the MCU.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
• The Trigun saga follows the story of Vash the Stampede, a legendary gunman and a pacifist with a bounty on his head.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 June 2022
• Marziani, a pacifist at heart, used a couple of violent metaphors to explain the difference then and now.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2022
• Guimard was a pacifist and a passionate champion of the worker.
  — Susannah Gardiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2022
• This included being a pacifist to avoid taking the lives of others.
  — Lallia Allali, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2022
• Shopping for children’s gifts with Stephen Spender, a pacifist, Rorem was surprised that Spender bought toy pistols.
  — Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 25 Dec. 2022
• His denunciation of jihadist groups did not mean that Mr. al-Qaradawi was a pacifist.
  — The New York Times, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• Such a move remains in the future, but Beijing would prefer that Japan remain a staunch pacifist forever.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2022
• This is punishment as entertainment, a short and sour saga of a pacifist turned vengeful brute in order to win back his self-respect.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
• Rustin was also a pacifist, serving prison time after refusing to register for the draft.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Aug. 2023
• Mayer, raised Jewish and turned Quaker, would deny being a pacifist.
  — Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• The art critic, pacifist and brother-in-law of Virginia Woolf has been neglected in favor of his contemporaries.
  — Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
• Though a pacifist, Du Bois used his considerable influence to urge readers to support the war effort.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2023
• One of his first videos, refuting the popular narrative of Martin Luther King Jr. being a pacifist, got over 1.3 million views.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2021
• Alexei, a 30-something pacifist, lives with his cat and, until Russia’s he was hauled off, enjoyed hanging out with friends in bars, cafes and parks, going to concerts and planning his next holiday in Europe.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2022
• Depp’s lawyers during closing remarks, keeping in line with their trial strategy, portrayed Heard as the abuser in the former couple’s relationship and Depp as a pacifist who tried to hide at the sign of an argument.
  — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 May 2022
• None of the characters are pleasant and none end well: rich and poor, artist and philistine, capitalist and socialist, serviceman and pacifist, all crash into one another in the streets of urban America.
  — Sarah Churchwell, The New York Review of Books, 8 Oct. 2020
• Rachel Holmes’ superb biography of the radical activist presents her in full, as an artist, writer, pacifist, anti-fascist, and lifelong proponent of human rights.
  — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Dec. 2020
• The Kremlin, which is quick to crush dissent from pacifists and antiwar activists, has tolerated criticism of the military operation from pro-war bloggers.
  — Robyn Dixon, Washington Post, 3 Apr. 2023
• That undoubtedly suits our own cultural moment, as Americans of all stripes pursue their goals outside the channel of traditional politics—and sometimes in ways that would make Child, a lifelong pacifist, turn over in her grave.
  — James Marcus, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
• To argue the contrary position was to be derided as an isolationist, an appeaser, or a pacifist—and to be rendered ineligible for election to high office.
  — Andrew J. Bacevich, The New Republic, 9 June 2020
• As a result, Germany is often described in security and foreign policy circles as pacifist.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky won in 1935, infuriating Adolf Hitler.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2022
• The artist, who called herself a pacifist, was known for her involvement in various organizations including ones dedicated to landmine removal.
  — Jolie Lash, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2021
• The pacifist is a term given to those individuals who fall into the people-pleasing category and will often fail to respond truthfully regarding expectations from just about anyone.
  — Thomas Aronica, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• To some that combination is an inherent contradiction, like being a meat-eating vegetarian, a violent pacifist or a Dodger-loving San Francisco Giants fan.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• Throughout his career, Mr. Oe embraced pacifist and left-wing political causes, opposing the country’s imperial traditions and seeking to force readers to confront the country’s complicity in wartime atrocities.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2023
• His narrative sorts the dilemmas of its various contemporary activists, telling their personal stories through flashbacks (a DIE exhibition of diversity, inclusion, and equity spread among whites, non-whites, men, women, pacifists, and radicals).
  — Armond White, National Review, 14 Apr. 2023
• That evolution from its pacifist, postwar orientation gained new impetus with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after which the ruling Liberal Democrats recommended doubling military spending to 2 percent of gross domestic product.
  — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022
• Here are the other women laureates, listed chronologically: 1946 — Emily Greene Balch, American economist, sociologist, pacifist and educator.
  — Shashank Bengali, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2021

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pacifist

2 of 2 adjective

• At the time, a pacifist movement was emerging around the world.
  — John Charles Wooding, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2019
• Critics say that such a change would strike at the heart of the pacifist document.
  — Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2017
• In 2032, society has reached a state of pacifist utopia.
  — Tasha Robinson, The Verge, 4 July 2018
• There was a pacifist minority, but most of us stayed at home when ETA was killing.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2018
• The great danger was, and remains, that the pacifist wings of all three parties in the coalition government—Mr.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 8 May 2022
• The public is wary of his plan to rush through a revision to the pacifist constitution.
  — Isabel Reynolds, Bloomberg.com, 11 July 2017
• The pacifist mood did not last: Hitler, who served in the First World War with unremitting enthusiasm, made sure of that.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023
• Rustin served as the treasurer of the and co-secretary of race relations for the , a pacifist human rights group.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2020
• Rustin traveled to India in 1948 to learn more about pacifist ideas and helped introduce those teachings to King.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 5 Feb. 2020
• Like many from the area around their hometown of Needy, near Aurora, the Deetzs were pacifist Mennonites.
  — Special To The Oregonian, OregonLive.com, 28 May 2018
• The next morning, the Hound returns from chopping wood to find the whole tribe slaughtered, including their pacifist leader.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 June 2016
• Even in pacifist Japan, nearly a third of people would favor a preemptive move.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2017
• After the war, in response to the rise of Communism, America and Britain began to embrace post-war, pacifist Japan.
  — Simon Han, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2017
• The Japanese public is divided on the issue – the island has been a pacifist nation since the end of their empire, and some prefer to keep it that way.
  — Fox News, 25 Feb. 2022
• Rankin chose not to run again in 1942, and devoted the rest of her life to pacifist causes, including opposition to the Vietnam War.
  — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2019
• At the same time, a strong pacifist strain influenced West German politics.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2022
• The pacifist outlook culminated in the 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact.
  — Joseph Loconte, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• Rustin was a gay former communist New Yorker who had served two years in jail in the 1940s for refusing to enlist in the military on pacifist grounds.
  — Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2018
• Since 2015, Russia has shown itself to be a more consequential actor in Syria than the pacifist EU.
  — Michael Kimmage, New Republic, 8 Jan. 2018
• In the aftermath of the war Japan became a pacifist country, swearing off war as a tool of national policy.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 29 May 2018
• Obayashi stayed stubbornly true to his core pacifist message through more than 40 movies and thousands of TV shows, commercials and other video.
  — Rasha Ali, USA TODAY, 11 Apr. 2020
• Their aim has been to remove any doubt about the legitimacy of Japan’s military, known as the Self-Defense Forces, by amending the much-beloved pacifist clause.
  — Michael Holtz, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2017
• Understandably, Germany emerged from that war with a pacifist bent.
  — Frida Ghitis, CNN, 22 Jan. 2023
• Mr Abe has taken his win as a mandate to press ahead with his long-standing plan to revise Japan’s pacifist constitution.
  — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
• Abe hopes to adopt a tougher military stance against Pyongyang, altering a decades-long pacifist approach.
  — Kevin Liptak, CNN, 4 Nov. 2017
• News website SakhaDay said the women chanted pacifist slogans and songs.
  — Jon Gambrell, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Sep. 2022
• He has been likened to a 20th-century pacifist Muslim, Abdul Ghaffar Khan.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2018
• However, there’s resistance within the country to any move away from Japan’s pacifist stance.
  — Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 21 May 2022
• The proprietor of a trendy chocolate-and-coffee shop in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, Parthiban is a pacifist family man who spends his spare time saving wild animals.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
• Every politician should listen, learn, and stop the liberal pacifist pretense.
  — Armond White, National Review, 15 Nov. 2023

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