Example sentences for: revisionist

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

  • Washington Square is said to compare favorably with last winter's revisionist Portrait of a Lady , since it "respects James' complexities and bitter ironies" (David Ansen, Newsweek ). Critics also praise its "brusque, energetic pace" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and Leigh's "heartbreakingly good" performance ( People ). The New Republic 's Stanley Kauffmann dissents, calling the film "ill at ease, uncomfortable, straining for effect."

  • In 1996, various individuals and organizations called upon St. Martin's not to publish a biography of Joseph Goebbels by the Holocaust revisionist David Irving.

  • This article was a good example of supposedly skeptical and revisionist garbage.

  • In a review of two revisionist books, the cover story rethinks the U.S. role in Vietnam.

  • His "coverage" has been far more insightful than anything else for either the criminal or the civil trial (including the acclaimed book by that sly revisionist Jeffrey Toobin).


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