How to Use relativism in a Sentence
relativism
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King thinks that the reason for this was the rise of anti-relativism.
—Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
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To rank a decade’s worth of champions is to embark on a task of relativism and hair-splitting.
—Dan Greene, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
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Pope Benedict saw relativism as the core challenge facing the Catholic Church.
—Jacqueline L. Salmon, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
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The second pitfall is a form of relativism borne out of a lack of confidence in the very existence of truth.
—Liv Grjebine, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2020
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But what is more important than the relativism of age is the curiosity that is lodged by doing the play a second time.
—Nancy Coleman, New York Times, 18 June 2021
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Our ambiguous slide into moral relativism has left us all at sea.
—Dallas News, 16 July 2019
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Furthermore, the aggressive rise of moral relativism has muddied the moral waters by casting doubt on the sheer existence of right and wrong.
—Jeff Cimmino, National Review, 19 July 2017
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Such relativism often breeds nihilism, something of which Ball has been accused.
—Ellie Robins, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
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This is the basis of moral relativism, which is the exact opposite of Christianity.
—Jeffrey Peters, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 30 Aug. 2019
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Though there was no mention of his personal disgrace, the first segment of the set seemed like a defiant exercise in moral relativism.
—James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Dec. 2021
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The danger of this district-by-district relativism, of course, is that the party offers up a thousand messengers but no message.
—Ben Austen, New Republic, 7 Sep. 2017
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The idea that objectivity might be poisonous seems to open the way to a kind of brain-melting relativism, the end of the possibility of knowledge itself.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
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He was widely seen as the church’s strongest possible weapon against the pressures of secularism and relativism.
—Jacqueline L. Salmon, Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2022
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Luke's optimism and unshakable belief in the absolute and rejection moral relativism came to life for me in that line.
—Chris Quinn, San Antonio Express-News, 4 May 2021
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And as is the case with its cousin martyrdom, reflexive moral relativism intensifies with the gravity of the issue at hand.
—Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 19 June 2017
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Critics on the right, like philosopher Allan Bloom, once complained about the flaccid relativism of progressives who preached tolerance as the highest virtue.
—Michael S. Roth, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
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Belief in objective truth is necessary to pursue the higher things and to protect against relativism and nihilism.
—The Editors, National Review, 16 Oct. 2023
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The religion of humanity, and the accompanying dictatorship of relativism, are deeply ingrained in the Church of Rome, and at the highest levels of the Church at that.
—Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
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Grammar is out, relativism is in, and the very project of telling (alt: teaching) other people how to speak or write has come to be seen by many Americans as authoritarian on its face.
—S.c. Cornell, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
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Some might blame the truth-disparaging theories that have long been incubating in certain corners of the academy, which go by the names of relativism and postmodernism.
—Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
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None of this is to support political relativism; the United States is not, as some dictators like to suggest, as unfree as many other countries.
—Justin Sherman, Wired, 9 June 2020
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The pioneers of cultural relativism were working against centuries of racist ideas and prejudices.
—Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
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One of the ironies of our overheated present moment is that the rationalist panic about social constructionism has become aligned with the Christian right’s panic about moral relativism.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
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At the end, Gary espouses a belief in a Nietzschean form of relativism, or a collectivist view of moral truth, with a strong emphasis on individualism.
—Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Sep. 2023
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And the fallout from sociologism, i.e., relativism, remains evident across Western nations, as comprehensive claims about the true and the good are reduced to race, class, and gender.
—Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
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The Closing of the American Mind, a complaint about the nature of higher education, is an argument against cultural relativism.
—Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 14 Aug. 2019
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In this climate of relativism and revisionism, where the most outlandish theories are a Google search away, both Marxism and utopian socialism seem credible.
—Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Mar. 2020
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All this is supervised by a dapper duo named Jurgen and Ramon (Oldman and Banderas, respectively), two bankers with a flair for fine tailoring and moral relativism.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2019
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If divine truth is single and universal, then multiplicity and relativism are the signatures of evil.
—Hari Kunzru, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
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That radical notion — that our next president shouldn’t have a rap sheet — made Hutchinson a pariah in today’s GOP, which seems to have traded its traditional reverence for law and order for a more pliable moral relativism.
—Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
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