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Recent Examples of triumphalism
Collaborating with several editors, Walker expertly folds in Sherpa’s distinct facets to transcend simplistic triumphalism.
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Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 26 July 2024
In the past eight days, Trump dodged a bullet, was memorialized with a historic image of triumphalism and strength, and spent a week monopolizing the airwaves at a convention where Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt off and declared his support for the Republican candidate in front of millions of viewers.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 July 2024
The bigger challenge has at times come from outside the administration, as some supporters of Ukraine indulged in a premature triumphalism that raised impossible expectations for last year’s Ukrainian counteroffensive.
—Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams (1960) Williams' anti-Western takes American triumphalism to task.
—The Week Staff, theweek, 11 June 2024
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Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 26 July 2024
In the past eight days, Trump dodged a bullet, was memorialized with a historic image of triumphalism and strength, and spent a week monopolizing the airwaves at a convention where Hulk Hogan ripped his shirt off and declared his support for the Republican candidate in front of millions of viewers.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 21 July 2024
The bigger challenge has at times come from outside the administration, as some supporters of Ukraine indulged in a premature triumphalism that raised impossible expectations for last year’s Ukrainian counteroffensive.
—Ben Rhodes, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams (1960) Williams' anti-Western takes American triumphalism to task.
—The Week Staff, theweek, 11 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for triumphalism
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Will Antonio Pierce, who started the season with such bravado, get another shot?Vic Tafur, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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The text messages — rife with bravado, boasts and intrigue — have fueled a scandal that has rocked the entertainment industry and spotlighted the ruthless underbelly of the Hollywood publicity machine.Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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Trump’s Comments About The Panama Canal Trump remarked that the United States should regain control of the Panama Canal, a statement that evoked arrogance and colonialism in the past.Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
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The historical 'attitude' (arrogance) in his acting has fueled MAGA, and his endorsements of Trump are undeniably overbearing and irrational.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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The conceit is saved from vainglory by the gravity Cage brings to the performance.Isaac Butler, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2023
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That’s the mantra for wide receivers, a group long known for their vainglory.Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
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And Åberg being a handsome freak hitting clutch shots and actually getting to show some swagger is a huge win.Brody Miller and Hugh Kellenberger, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
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Hunk of the moment Glen Powell, from nostalgia blockbusters Top Gun: Maverick and Twisters, lends his cowboy swagger in the same role the Austrian muscleman occupied.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
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These new movies offer a new kind of spectacle, one that’s not just a matter of audiovisual bombast but that inheres in cinematic form, becomes part of a film’s narrative architecture, and creates a distinctive psychological relationship with viewers.Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
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But from the outside, such moments can get drowned out by the daily buffet of Trump’s outrageous bombast.Philip Eliott / Detroit, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
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After all, marketing itself is somewhat narcissistic, with its continual cries for attention and thinly veiled braggadocio.Martin Kihn, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2025
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Since then, the rise of social media has been marked, among other dreadful things, by lifestyle braggadocio and algorithms fine-tuned to serve scarily relevant ads.Ron Lieber, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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His boisterous persona was more comical than confrontational, a hot-air balloon of strutting pomposity punctured by his family.Jim McKairnes, USA TODAY, 17 Jan. 2025
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Lacking the pop cultural connection of Vox Lux, The Brutalist’s pomposity becomes unrelatable, if not repugnant.Armond White, National Review, 3 Jan. 2025
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They are written with a thuggish hauteur, as if Pacino’s Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana had been transplanted to the world of music promotion – all machismo and ultimatums.Martin McKenzie-Murray, SPIN, 7 Jan. 2025
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With his chilly hauteur and unflattering Prince Valiant hairdo, Jordan is a plain villain amid characters who otherwise collectively lurch between sympathetic victimhood and viciously cruel mob mentality.Guy Lodge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2024
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“Triumphalism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triumphalism. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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