How to Use radicalism in a Sentence

radicalism

noun
  • The radicalism nurtured in the 1990s was more than the work of one man.
    Claire Potter, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In a way, the current radicalism flips the idea of The Remnant on its head.
    Sam Adler-Bell, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Will Daly, for his part, did not dodge the charge of radicalism.
    oregonlive, 4 June 2021
  • This radicalism is a threat to our city, our state, and our nation.
    Tori Otten, The New Republic, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Hu warned in a blog post against a return to radicalism.
    Fox News, 8 Sep. 2021
  • The radicalism is gone and the message is clear: Fall was a season about safe, by-the-book masculine codes.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The hybridity of the Swahili coast meant that Gurnah couldn’t embrace the back-to-the-land radicalism of a writer like Ngũgĩ.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2022
  • In the face of such challenges, realism and radicalism are not so far apart.
    The Editors, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2020
  • There are signs that even moderates on Capitol Hill are unnerved by the radicalism of the Supreme Court.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2022
  • Al-Hawl has become a hotbed of radicalism, a kind of mini-caliphate.
    Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The aim was to have the mosque under state control, Mr. Kalantzis said, adding that a site overseen by the state was less likely to become a breeding ground for radicalism.
    Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Perhaps as alarming as the rhetoric is the procedural radicalism of the Democrats.
    The Editors, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
  • In the hysterical post-Roe scramble, Democrats are sure to show their hand on this radicalism.
    Nate Hochman, National Review, 6 May 2022
  • But even the flurry of sedition convictions has done little to stem the larger tide of far-right radicalism.
    Alan Feuer, New York Times, 26 May 2023
  • Julia, a new HBO series about the famed chef, explores the radicalism of an untamed appetite—whatever the age.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Their alternating voices give a kaleidoscopic feel to the plot, and yield a panoramic look at the roots of radicalism.
    New York Times, 6 Apr. 2021
  • The group has spoken in a dozen prisons and hundreds of schools across the country, combining activism and self-promotion in a blueprint for the next wave of black radicalism.
    John Leland, SPIN, 25 Feb. 2023
  • In the United States, recent decades have seen the momentum of market radicalism moving west.
    Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
  • Often, the text of these articles is quite blunt about the radicalism of the GOP but the headlines — what will be most read — are muted, with gun-shy editors blunting reporters’ work.
    Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2022
  • For some, this video served as evidence of Obama's covert radicalism.
    Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 18 June 2021
  • The radicalism was also aimed at attacking the United States.
    Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Part of the original radicalism of Barbie was that girls could use her to act out fantasies of being something other than mothers.
    Alexandra Lange, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Liza Featherstone struck a similar note in her plea last year to resurrect the radicalism of the original Earth Day.
    Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Her radicalism begins with a growing awareness of her hypocrisy.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
  • In this case, that means looking at how right-wing radicalism can be fueled by, and feed into, hysteria that looks a lot like adolescent lust.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • But logic appears to have been one of the main casualties of ideology in the Supreme Court’s summer of radicalism.
    Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 11 July 2022
  • As the law-and-order candidate, Reagan opposed the rise of campus radicalism.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • Their stories prove detailed and compelling enough to carry the day, even if the filmmaking does little to reflect the radicalism of their enterprise.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
  • For several months, Day didn’t find that level of radicalism.
    Mike Levine, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2021
  • In French Revolution terms, the prior efforts were the work of timid Girondins compared with the full-on radicalism of the Montagnards embodied in the latest order.
    The Editors, National Review, 21 Feb. 2023

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