Example sentences for: revisionist

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

  • His masterwork was Eminent Victorians , a collection of brief revisionist essays about great men and women of the 19th century that contributed no new facts but rather a mocking spin on existing ones.

  • MacDonald, a professor of psychology at California State University at Long Beach, is about to testify in London on behalf of David Irving, a historian of World War II who is suing another historian over her charge that he is a Holocaust revisionist.

  • Traditionally, Kennedy books have ranged from apologist to revisionist.

  • A literary critic's biography of the 18 th -century satirical English painter wins praise for "bringing [her] subject and his milieu alive" (Bruce Cook, the Washington Post Book World ). The critics accept Uglow's revisionist claim that Hogarth's famous moralizing was accompanied by a prurient fixation on sex.

  • I was remembering the rancor that followed two previous revisionist works on Vietnam--by Norman Podhoretz and Richard Nixon, to say nothing of Robert McNamara's 25-years-after-the-fact revelation that he'd made a little mistake back in the '60s.


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