How to Use relativism in a Sentence

relativism

noun

• King thinks that the reason for this was the rise of anti-relativism.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• To rank a decade’s worth of champions is to embark on a task of relativism and hair-splitting.
  — Dan Greene, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Pope Benedict saw relativism as the core challenge facing the Catholic Church.
  — Jacqueline L. Salmon, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• The second pitfall is a form of relativism borne out of a lack of confidence in the very existence of truth.
  — Liv Grjebine, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2020
• But what is more important than the relativism of age is the curiosity that is lodged by doing the play a second time.
  — Nancy Coleman, New York Times, 18 June 2021
• Our ambiguous slide into moral relativism has left us all at sea.
  — Dallas News, 16 July 2019
• Furthermore, the aggressive rise of moral relativism has muddied the moral waters by casting doubt on the sheer existence of right and wrong.
  — Jeff Cimmino, National Review, 19 July 2017
• Such relativism often breeds nihilism, something of which Ball has been accused.
  — Ellie Robins, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• This is the basis of moral relativism, which is the exact opposite of Christianity.
  — Jeffrey Peters, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 Aug. 2019
• Though there was no mention of his personal disgrace, the first segment of the set seemed like a defiant exercise in moral relativism.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2021
• The danger of this district-by-district relativism, of course, is that the party offers up a thousand messengers but no message.
  — Ben Austen, New Republic, 7 Sep. 2017
• The idea that objectivity might be poisonous seems to open the way to a kind of brain-melting relativism, the end of the possibility of knowledge itself.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• He was widely seen as the church’s strongest possible weapon against the pressures of secularism and relativism.
  — Jacqueline L. Salmon, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
• Luke's optimism and unshakable belief in the absolute and rejection moral relativism came to life for me in that line.
  — Chris Quinn, San Antonio Express-News, 4 May 2021
• And as is the case with its cousin martyrdom, reflexive moral relativism intensifies with the gravity of the issue at hand.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 June 2017
• Critics on the right, like philosopher Allan Bloom, once complained about the flaccid relativism of progressives who preached tolerance as the highest virtue.
  — Michael S. Roth, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• Belief in objective truth is necessary to pursue the higher things and to protect against relativism and nihilism.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
• The religion of humanity, and the accompanying dictatorship of relativism, are deeply ingrained in the Church of Rome, and at the highest levels of the Church at that.
  — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
• Grammar is out, relativism is in, and the very project of telling (alt: teaching) other people how to speak or write has come to be seen by many Americans as authoritarian on its face.
  — S.c. Cornell, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
• Some might blame the truth-disparaging theories that have long been incubating in certain corners of the academy, which go by the names of relativism and postmodernism.
  — Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
• None of this is to support political relativism; the United States is not, as some dictators like to suggest, as unfree as many other countries.
  — Justin Sherman, Wired, 9 June 2020
• The pioneers of cultural relativism were working against centuries of racist ideas and prejudices.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
• One of the ironies of our overheated present moment is that the rationalist panic about social constructionism has become aligned with the Christian right’s panic about moral relativism.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• At the end, Gary espouses a belief in a Nietzschean form of relativism, or a collectivist view of moral truth, with a strong emphasis on individualism.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
• And the fallout from sociologism, i.e., relativism, remains evident across Western nations, as comprehensive claims about the true and the good are reduced to race, class, and gender.
  — Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• The Closing of the American Mind, a complaint about the nature of higher education, is an argument against cultural relativism.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
• In this climate of relativism and revisionism, where the most outlandish theories are a Google search away, both Marxism and utopian socialism seem credible.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Mar. 2020
• All this is supervised by a dapper duo named Jurgen and Ramon (Oldman and Banderas, respectively), two bankers with a flair for fine tailoring and moral relativism.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• That radical notion — that our next president shouldn’t have a rap sheet — made Hutchinson a pariah in today’s GOP, which seems to have traded its traditional reverence for law and order for a more pliable moral relativism.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• Yet after a stumble into relativism—perhaps Communism isn’t so bad?—Bond rights himself.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 8 Sep 2024