How to Use revisionism in a Sentence

revisionism

noun
  • There’s no revisionism in what those four years were like.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2020
  • But plenty will say in private that some of the #MeToo stories seem to stray into revisionism.
    The Economist, 19 Dec. 2017
  • The matter is murky, as Spears does not control the rights to her own catalog - which could enhance the framing of the show’s fairytale revisionism.
    Lee Seymour, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • But the ambiguities of the case don’t make for easy revisionism.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
  • The context for this strange story is the historical revisionism of Law and Justice, the far-right party that has been in power in Poland since 2015.
    Amos Barshad, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • This was not the first time Abbas has been accused of antisemitism and Holocaust revisionism.
    Isabel Kershner, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • This was not the first time Mr. Abbas has been accused of antisemitism and Holocaust revisionism.
    Isabel Kershner, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2022
  • At first, the revisionism plays like a fun thought experiment.
    Jason Parham, Wired, 2 Mar. 2021
  • There couldn’t be a revisionism just by making the northerners the villains, at the time there was xenophobia, hate and violence all around.
    Emiliano Granada, Variety, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Cruella is the latest entry in the thriving genre of villain revisionism.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
  • In history and pop culture, a wave of revisionism has subtly cleaned up the agency’s image.
    Greg Barnhisel, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Then the mask slid back down on Sunday as the far-right Presidential nominee reminded the world that Holocaust revisionism still lives in the Front.
    WSJ, 10 Apr. 2017
  • Such revisionism is just too bald for even the most sympathetic to Barton's worldview.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2012
  • Some call it revisionism that removes blame from Poles who collaborated with the Nazis and murdered Jews.
    sun-sentinel.com, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The revisionism comes under L. Francis Cissna, the Trump appointee in charge of the agency that issues green cards and grants citizenship.
    Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Nor was the chassis impressed with my midcourse revisionism.
    Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 June 2021
  • Some viewers bristled at its preachy revisionism while others simply couldn't be bothered to turn out for what was, by one count, the fourth attempt to reboot James Cameron's franchise.
    Grayson Quay, The Week, 1 June 2022
  • But the wave of revisionism has accelerated and grown mainstream in recent decades, especially with the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the decline of the Congress.
    Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This combination of subtle and brazen nationalist revisionism captures the two-and-a-half years of PiS rule.
    The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Perhaps a similar revisionism will emerge about the years of Tory misrule.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • The Marcoses’ online revisionism project dates back to the 2000s through the family’s presence on Friendster, Flickr and other now defunct websites, researchers found.
    Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2022
  • As bracing as such revisionism can be, Barker’s rewriting of Homer had crippling defects.
    Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Typical of fandom revisionism, years of engaging Star Wars cartoons plus comics and novels have made fans change their tune and warm up to Ahsoka.
    Eric Francisco, Men's Health, 22 Aug. 2023
  • This new version of events marked the most blatant and audacious attempt yet at sweeping historical revisionism of last year’s protests.
    Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Their reckless revisionism could also have more tragic consequences down the road.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 July 2021
  • Contrary to left-wing revisionism, there was nothing in Jim’s story that pointed to bioweapons conspiracies.
    Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The evolution of Putin’s historical revisionism can be seen throughout his public statements over the years.
    Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2022
  • Because a spoonful of infantilization helps the revisionism go down!
    Jason Kehe, Wired, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Months after the then-president's supporters stormed the Capitol that winter day, Trump and his acolytes are taking this revisionism to a new and dangerous place — one of martyrs and warlike heroes, and of revenge.
    Calvin Woodward, Colleen Long and David Klepper, Chron, 18 July 2021
  • Few historians will agree with Cooper’s out-and-out revisionism.
    Amir-Hussein Radjy, New Republic, 6 July 2017

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