Example sentences for: instrumentalization

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

  • Or perhaps, for you, "instrumentalization" hinges on motive : Perhaps you believe the Holocaust was invoked for these ends "cynically" or "insincerely"?

  • But you didn't say that: You said that I believe that "every institutional memory of the Holocaust is a deliberate instrumentalization of it toward cheap and self-interested ends."

  • But you went way beyond that--counterposing your traditional/cultural hypothesis to my alleged view that "every institutional memory of the Holocaust is a deliberate instrumentalization of it toward cheap and self-interested ends."

  • In your exchange with Philip Gourevitch about my book The Holocaust in American Life , you wrote the following, apropos of what you termed "the so-called 'lessons of the Holocaust,' or why we recall the Holocaust at all": "I would suggest, contra Novick, that not every institutional memory of the Holocaust is a deliberate instrumentalization of it toward cheap and self-interested ends."

  • Given the narrowness of both my hasty characterization of your position (vis-à-vis "instrumentalization") and of your own objection to my characterization, I'm glad to be able to come back and say now that my words were unfair to your much more complex approach to "the uses of the Holocaust."


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