Words similar to conservatism
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Example sentences for: conservatism
How can you use “conservatism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
During the past few years, Republicans have dallied with social conservatism, libertarianism, and Gingrichian "revolutionary" conservatism.
On the contrary, some call "compassionate conservatism" an offensive phrase because it suggests that unmodified conservatives lack compassion (just as many liberals complained that Vice President Al Gore's "practical idealism" implied that unmodified idealists were impractical).
Clintonism: fiscal conservatism, deficits into surpluses, welfare reform, sweeteners for social programs, lots of euphemizing, and a willingness to co-opt the other side.
This normally would not qualify as news, since George Will always has a book coming out and it is usually disappearing quietly into the back catalog of the Conservative Book of the Month Club ( The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric, 1994-1997 ; The Leveling Wind: Politics, the Culture, and Other News, 1990-1994 ; Restoration: Congress, Term Limits, and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy [1992] ...)
I refuse, out of conservatism and sheer curmudgeonliness to give up English grammar (like the “neutral” pronouns of reference) when I cannot paraphrase without losing what little elegance there may be in my writing, and I refuse to sacrifice metonyms, metaphors, allusions, and other figures of speech that contain male referents, substituting “big liar” for Baron Munchhausen and “Peeping Thomasina” for Peeping Tom or trying to get around saying or writing Pollyanna, say uncle, raise Cain , or Jesus Christ !
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