How to Use utilitarianism in a Sentence

utilitarianism

noun

• But the utilitarianism of the silhouette is the point here.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• But such stark utilitarianism sits poorly with how most people view the world, because AVs would still cause a lot of deaths.
  — The Economist, 10 May 2018
• So the marketers took those form factors and jacked them up in the air, adding some styling tweaks meant to suggest the utilitarianism of military surplus.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 25 Oct. 2017
• This will push them closer to utilitarianism, and an equal concern for all.
  — Tyler Cowen, Star Tribune, 7 Mar. 2021
• But the dark utilitarianism of Palladium is a far cry from the neon brightness that streetwear aficionados have come to expect from this man of style.
  — Ryan Dombal, Esquire, 6 Sep. 2011
• Kondo’s creed may be born of Shinto precepts, but at its core is a very Western utilitarianism.
  — Coco Krumme, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
• This was the opposite of utilitarianism, or the suggestion that what was good was that which would benefit the greatest number of people.
  — Kim Phillips-Fein, The New Republic, 9 June 2020
• These women took artistic license to write their own beauty narrative, one that refused to be boxed in by the utilitarianism of blue-collar work.
  — Charles Harbison, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2021
• The constraints of the pandemic have given us few reasons to carry a handbag outside of pure utilitarianism.
  — Willow Lindley, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2020
• Crudely put: In utilitarianism, the ends justify the means.
  — Sara Harrison, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2023
• The classic example – often used to critique utilitarianism – is whether you should be required to kill another person if doing so would save a greater number of lives.
  — Lee McIntyre, The Conversation, 21 May 2020
• Now I’m an artist, I’m not into utilitarianism as an aesthetic.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 20 Dec. 2016
• But there are plenty of variations on the trolley problem that suggest there's more than pure utilitarianism involved in the decision-making.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 15 Apr. 2022
• Dickens’s novel was a satire of the philosophy of utilitarianism as it was applied to education: the idea that working-class children needed to know enough to work in factories and nothing more.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2016
• Bazerman’s guiding light is the philosophy of utilitarianism, which teaches the goal of creating the greatest good for the greatest number of people.
  — Hbs Working Knowledge, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• His thinking can be traced to the utilitarianism of Jeremy Bentham, the Enlightenment-era English legal philosopher and reformer.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2022
• Demonstrating the same understanding of color today, Hadid’s outerwear and trousers popped against a matte black knit top, plus the frayed trim added an extra layer of utilitarianism.
  — Maria Ward, Vogue, 3 Oct. 2017
• Leaders in advanced countries are not obligated to practice global utilitarianism or lift up the global poor at the expense of their working and middle classes.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2018
• In layman’s terms, a utilitarianism approach would maximize overall health by directing care toward those most likely to benefit the most from it.
  — Austin Frakt, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
• Arriving in the wake of the boho-chic early aughts, the utilitarianism of the post-recession days and the sentimental softness of the mid-2010s, these designers are building an aesthetic language for now: sly, assertive and somewhat unhinged.
  — Meara Sharma, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
• Conversations with MacAskill often turn to radical utilitarianism and audacious plans to save the world.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 29 June 2018
• Melding crafts and fine art with an emphasis on simplicity and utilitarianism, the Bauhaus movement helped define the modernist aesthetic.
  — Oliver Sava, Chicago Reader, 5 Apr. 2018
• Unlike in many Western countries where more natural makeup looks are in vogue, women across Arab Gulf countries often lean toward bright, eye-catching makeup trends and accessories that offset the utilitarianism of black veils and abayas.
  — Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2019
• Schur even drew on his own experience when crafting Eleanor’s initial reaction to learning about utilitarianism in Season 1.
  — Elizabeth Yuko, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2017
• Doctrine of utilitarianism: Columbia Gas of Ohio wants to increase distribution rates on gas bills by nearly a third to raise $221.4 million for infrastructure projects and to comply with federal mandates.
  — cleveland, 22 June 2022
• Bankman-Fried would never say that about utilitarianism, or about Effective Altruism.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
• This sense of elevated utilitarianism also takes shape in several cadet coats, including one done in corduroy and metallic piping.
  — Maria Ward, Vogue, 11 Aug. 2017
• Fried is describing the variety of utilitarianism known as Effective Altruism, which, as I’ve written earlier, is notably hospitable to billionaires who don’t wish to pay taxes.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
• In the penultimate episode of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s third season, the protagonist Kimmy takes a college philosophy class, learns about the trolley problem, and becomes obsessed with utilitarianism.
  — Elizabeth Yuko, The Atlantic, 21 Oct. 2017
• Proponents of an organ market had historically invoked the crisp—some say cold—logic of utilitarianism.
  — WIRED, 5 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024