Example sentences for: totalitarian

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

  • Worse, FDR "tended to give Stalin what he wished, thus making possible the immense satellite empire of Communist totalitarian states in eastern Europe."

  • It's worth remembering that Kundera's sexual parables unfold against a backdrop of totalitarian repression, whereas our own grapple with a more confusing legacy: the counterculture of the '60s and '70s.

  • Toward the end of the film, as Pitt's Harrer contemplates the takeover of Tibet by the intolerant, totalitarian Chinese, he says in a voice-over, "I shudder to recall how once, long ago, I embraced the same beliefs."

  • The New York Times ' Janet Maslin, for one, dismisses other reviewers for misunderstanding the film: "If watched sufficiently mindlessly, it might be mistaken for a dangerous endorsement of totalitarian tactics and super-violent nihilism in an all-out assault on society," but she sees it instead as an investigation of "the lure of violence in an even more dangerously regimented, dehumanized culture."

  • Lanzmann, the director of Shoah , comes off as a petty totalitarian.


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