Example sentences for: relativism

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

  • As an adherent of deconstruction's "absolute relativism," Suckling believes in undoing man's dominion over the Earth.

  • Traditionalism vs. radicalism: Pro-lifers equate the American way with traditional ideas, threatened by relativism.

  • "Inappropriate" easily outstripped "evil," a word that appeared in the Congressional Record a mere 250 times, though--William Bennett, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and other denouncers of moral relativism take note-- it still lagged behind "wrong," which appeared in excess of 999 times (the CR search engine doesn't count beyond three digits).

  • Both sides, he wrote, failed to focus on moral decay as evidenced by such problems as relativism and the "disastrous feminization of education," whatever that means.

  • Not only did it promote freedom "more than any statesman or soldier did" by creating CNN, faxes, and e-mail, but furthermore, Einstein's theory of "relativity paved the way for a new relativism in morality, arts and politics," influencing James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, and others.


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