Example sentences for: traditionalism

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

  • But for all their Confucian outlook and traditionalism, the Manchu imposed one singular feature of their own culture: the wearing of pigtails.

  • Insiders bet the new pope will share John Paul II's conservative traditionalism and be "a noncontroversial figure, in his mid-60s, who is multilingual, has curial experience, and is archbishop in a nation that is not a major power."

  • Is it increasingly a choice between back-to-basics traditionalism in the test-conscious public school system and a considerably more progressive, or "constructivist," ethos in private schools?

  • For such people, we might say that their very grip on reality depends on their control of language: it is their security blanket, the corners of which they chew with everlasting self-satisfaction and in which they wind themselves for protection against the hostile forces that would shake the foundations of their traditionalism.

  • The stiff upper lip has been replaced by the barbed, blabbing tongue; reticence by confession; traditionalism by populism.


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