How to Use quietism in a Sentence

quietism

noun

• To most modern peoples the idea would represent a secular analogue to quietism, fatalistic and Luddite.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
• With Israel’s borderlands in ruins and hundreds of its citizens taken hostage, the country’s voters could no longer countenance their leader’s quietism, which now looked like a historic blunder.
  — Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
• Advertisement The Islamic Republic that has just lost its supreme leader is the product of that decision to abandon clerical quietism and seize the state.
  — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 5 Mar. 2026
• Anyone who thinks the contemplative life amounts to a form of quietism or a retreat from the world’s suffering should spend some time shadowing Joan Halifax, the Zen priest and anthropologist.
  — Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
• By Michael Pollan Anyone who thinks the contemplative life amounts to a form of quietism or a retreat from the world’s suffering should spend some time shadowing Joan Halifax, the Zen priest and anthropologist.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026