Examples of universalism in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web As such, Lincoln’s conception of civic virtue is a kind of universalism. — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, "Self-Interest Is Not Enough: Lincoln’s Classical Revision of the Founding," 18 Sep. 2020 Whatever the metaphor, there is always a need to push our thinking toward universalism. — The Salt Lake Tribune, "Commentary: Pope Francis’ new papal encyclical could be derailed by its seemingly sexist title," 8 Sep. 2020 The hardest questions, the deepest conflicts between past and present, identity and universalism, aren’t resolved or even addressed in its 90-minute running time. — Ross Douthat, National Review, "An American Pickle: Seth Rogen’s Traditionalist Comedy," 20 Aug. 2020 For Cowles, the salient features of Darwin’s method are its naturalism and universalism: Darwin understood his method as common not only to all human thought and creation but to living nature itself. — Jessica Riskin, The New York Review of Books, "Just Use Your Thinking Pump!," 17 June 2020 The universalism of this challenge, revealed in Johnson’s illness, is its most novel feature. — Tom Mctague, The Atlantic, "The Meaning of Boris Johnson’s Illness," 27 Mar. 2020 Rather than engage in political evangelism, the EU is giving up on universalism, even though civilisation-states naturally tend to be expansive. — The Economist, "Charlemagne Huntington’s disease and the clash of civilisation-states," 2 Jan. 2020 Both historians recognize that liberal universalism cannot sustain itself, because the cerebral sense of the nation ultimately descends into an identity politics that is just as tribal as the visceral sense. — Grayson Logue, National Review, "A Nation without a Chest," 10 Aug. 2019 Meacham and Lepore are not alone in their concern for the idea of the nation that avoids tribalism and universalism. — Grayson Logue, National Review, "A Nation without a Chest," 10 Aug. 2019

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