How to Use triumphalism in a Sentence

triumphalism

noun

• And, as Mr Bandurski puts it, the genie of hype and triumphalism may not in the end be so easy to coax back into the lamp.
  — The Economist, 12 July 2018
• This talking point emerged at the peak of Celtics triumphalism, when, for about three weeks in the middle of November, Boston looked like the best team in the league.
  — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• As far as the theories of Nordic superman, that sort of racial triumphalism went out of favor with the Nazis.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 June 2013
• For the Allies, there was a victory to celebrate, in November 1918, and triumphalism was the mood of the era.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 14 May 2020
• At the same time, victory can lead to prideful triumphalism that in its own way can distort what lies ahead.
  — Ronald Suny, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023
• Putin’s Russia is part of the larger story of the end of liberal triumphalism.
  — Marci Shore, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2022
• All just for laughs, of course, but a certain strain of triumphalism runs through those conclusions, a trend that apexed years later when The Good Place fixed the universe.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 26 Mar. 2021
• Composer Hans Zimmer’s drone-laden score never strikes a tone of triumphalism; so much of this movie’s tricky poise is his.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• The late 1960s saw the beginning of left-liberal moral triumphalism.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 30 May 2018
• But there was less surprise and less triumphalism — and more reflection on the challenges ahead than at that scrappy moment in 1999.
  — Will Englund, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2019
• The new president didn’t touch on any of this, not a note of triumphalism, and only a few cautious and circumspect references to the turmoil and chaos of the past four years.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2021
• But there is little air of defeat among Trump supporters and no triumphalism among Democrats.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2020
• Akesson’s triumphalism has echoed across the continent.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2022
• Brave Books is a brand fueled by a classic right-wing cocktail of aggrievement and triumphalism.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• In the academy, historians are far past the days of Whiggish triumphalism, the belief that ours is the best of all possible worlds.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 20 June 2022
• The pre-election triumphalism of the MAGA media would seem to call for some rethinking, not that anyone should expect it.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2022
• Yet such triumphalism cannot mask the deep fault lines underneath, which—unless recognized and addressed—will only widen in the years to come.
  — Ramachandra Guha, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
• Belated nervousness about the Delta variant caused the Biden team to tone down some of the triumphalism in the president’s prepared remarks.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2021
• Today’s sense of unease is a stark contrast with the heady triumphalism that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 18 June 2023
• To defeat blatant evil we must be impelled by a certain triumphalism.
  — New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022
• Enacting triumphalism was shallow and looked like a tell.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
• His signature note of grievance may still be present, but it is accompanied by a blast of triumphalism.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 8 May 2022
• There has been barely any of the triumphalism one would have expected in victory over a land whose rulers revile the U.S. as satanic.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• But the triumphalism also was expressed by some more serious sources.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• The national myth of Alfred the Great and Anglo-Saxon triumphalism will not go away quietly.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Mar. 2022
• On the fourth day, fighters paraded thousands of Ethiopian prisoners through the city center, in a show of triumphalism that was a pointed rebuke to the leader of Ethiopia.
  — New York Times, 12 July 2021
• Moscow has made the most of its capture, epitomized by triumphalism in Russian media.
  — Mstyslav Chernov and Jamey Keaten, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
• It was laced through with hope and triumphalism, with a sense that the series was always about five seconds away from having star Elisabeth Moss flex her bicep in a Rosie the Riveter pose.
  — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 11 July 2018
• The premature triumphalism cost India dearly when, in April, a tsunami of new infections swept the country.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 29 Dec. 2021
• This is not triumphalism but quite the opposite—a refusal to stay sunk in fear and trouble, mourning and misery, servitude and dependency.
  — Ruth R. Wisse, WSJ, 29 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 8 Aug 2024