Example sentences for: colonialism

How can you use “colonialism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Is there an automatic place for the top consciousness-raising tracts of the fifties (David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd ), sixties (Norman O. Brown's Love's Body ), seventies (Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism ), and eighties (Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind )? A tempting (and sensible) option is to split the difference between influence and style by picking the top books about the major events of the century: Communism (snubbing Whittaker Chambers's Witness would be a scandal), race and colonialism (Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma , Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude ); modern art (Woolf's A Room of One's Own , alas; Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle , if To the Finland Station misses under Communism); and the Holocaust (with Anne Frank's diary likely to top the whole list).

  • A 10-story cover package on the "Politics of Travel" complains that mass tourism Disneyfies authentic culture and promotes economic colonialism.

  • The crippled Russian government has no choice but to accept this aid, but it's disturbingly reminiscent of 19th century colonialism.

  • (Careful feminist writers avoid unthinking use of imagery redolent of colonialism and militarism.)

  • Nearby Ramses Square plays host to the Victorian Railway Station, designed in the heyday of colonialism and fronted by a monumental granite statue of Ramses II transported from the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis in 1955.


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