Example sentences for: jingoism

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

  • It was caused by "a poisonous mix of greed, liquor, jingoism, and bad taste," writes Frank Hannigan, the group's former executive director.

  • There is, of course, an easily crossed line between confident optimism and arrogant jingoism, and that line was sometimes crossed--by Reagan himself and by many others--in the '80s (just as it was, much more disastrously, by many Democrats in the '60s).

  • In the big finale, as men and women in tiny swimsuits perform a nearly pornographic water ballet in a giant glass-walled tank, a row of topless showgirls roars onto the stage on Harley Davidsons while lasers trace American Icons--the Statue of Liberty, profiles of Washington and Lincoln, the flag-raising on Iwo Jima--onto the wings of the stage, and a 15-piece pit band plays Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." Greed, liquor, jingoism, bad taste, and utterly compelling entertainment.

  • This sort of jingoism is unworthy of "News Quiz" players, who might charitably have pointed out how graciously the English have transformed themselves from a ruthless imperial power into a vast island museum that still believes itself to be a ruthless imperial power.

  • Do other nations escape this jingoism?


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