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Recent Examples of totalitarianism This lively novel examines the compromises and complicity of artists working in the face of totalitarianism through a fictional retelling of the life of the Austrian film director G. W. Pabst. The New Yorker, New Yorker, 19 May 2025 But, as Peck believes, Orwell has wrongly been interpreted as relevant only to an earlier time of Stalinist totalitarianism. Matthew Carey, Deadline, 16 May 2025 The four-part documentary series, released in April, features interviews with survivors of Soviet totalitarianism. Heather Hamilton, The Washington Examiner, 27 Apr. 2025 The skull is a thin barrier against totalitarianism. Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for totalitarianism
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Noun
  • This position does not mean in any way ignoring four decades of mismanagement, corruption, oppression, tyranny and incompetence of the Islamic Republic.
    Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 18 June 2025
  • Ever since America’s founders decided that the best way to prevent tyranny was to diffuse power across branches of government, those branches of government have competed for authority.
    Jacob Turcotte, Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2025
Noun
  • Baker reaches from Virginia’s slaveholding history to the poet Ezra Pound’s deluded post–World War II fascism to the misogynistic trolls of Gamergate in her quest to understand Unite the Right.
    Book Marks June 20, Literary Hub, 20 June 2025
  • Seen as a metaphor for fascism, authoritarian threats and other abuses of power, the script has experienced a resurgence recently.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • The backdrop of the Marcos dictatorship shaped her artistic approach, defined by an interest in quotidian experience—including everyday injustices such as gender inequality and the ecological exploitation of the Philippines by greedy conglomerates.
    Hung Duong, Artforum, 18 June 2025
  • This brings me back to the conclusion that the Venezuelan dictatorship — perhaps Latin America’s biggest potential winner of a global oil price hike — along with Colombia and Mexico may get, at best, a brief respite if the Iran war disrupts world oil shipping lanes.
    Andres Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, 18 June 2025

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