How to Use dogmatism in a Sentence

dogmatism

noun
  • The world of politics is, of course, filled with dogmatism, earned or not.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Preferable would be a mix of innate fear and an anti-virus, pro-social-norm dogmatism.
    — Tyler Cowen Bloomberg Opinion, Star Tribune, 7 Oct. 2020
  • The book suffers not just from its dogmatism but also from its homogeneity.
    — Ian Wang, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The goal is to reduce the dogmatism and polarization that grips this country.
    — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The goal is to reduce the dogmatism and polarization that grips this country.
    — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 15 May 2018
  • The goal is to reduce the dogmatism and polarization that grips this country.
    — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 8 May 2018
  • Getting there will require more pragmatism and less dogmatism.
    — Wal Van Lierop, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • And many folks thought that that was a type of dogmatism and inflexibility that was not productive.
    — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2026
  • The media and progressive elites dismissed these voices and refused to drop their lockdown dogmatism.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Fear and power, hubris and guilt, not naiveté and dogmatism, inspired the final decision to invade Iraq.
    — Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
  • Like the anti-nuclear world view—and perhaps partly in response to it—the pro-nuclear world view can edge toward dogmatism.
    — Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2021
  • The decades of warnings against dietary cholesterol provide a classic case of this unwarranted dogmatism.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 6 May 2017
  • But for the audience the scariest revelation in the conversation isn’t his dogmatism.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Hoover’s pragmatism helped curb, at various junctures, his dogmatism and extremist tactics.
    — Jack Goldsmith, The Atlantic, 22 Nov. 2022
  • Both Mises and Hayek have been criticized—and, many would note, discredited—for their simplistic dogmatism.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2021
  • To Start a War will go a long way to solidify prevailing views about the dysfunction, naiveté, and dogmatism of Bush and his advisers.
    — Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
  • On some level, Luke had perceived the failure of the Jedi, their recourse to dogmatism and arrogant all-knowingness, and sought to break the pattern.
    — Wired, 14 July 2022
  • Then there was the sheer dogmatism of Brexit that led the party to break faith with its traditional base, especially owners of small- and medium-sized businesses.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • The book is rife with phrases stressing the iconoclastic nature of the scientists—or possibly the dogmatism of the world around them—before their ultimate redemption.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 13 Aug. 2022
  • That — metaphorically and literally — is earned dogmatism, the risk that expertise breeds rigidity in our thinking and decision-making.
    — Tim Maurer, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • These days, the moment a left-wing populist nears power in the Western hemisphere, critics to the right play the Venezuela card, warning of the ruinous consequences of socialist dogmatism.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 3 July 2018
  • This statement in part reflects, perhaps, her intolerance of intellectual dogmatism.
    — Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • What a terrible price to achieve that Westphalian moment — when wars of religious sectarianism break believers of their dogmatism, when other identities emerge.
    — Andrew Doran, National Review, 14 July 2017
  • That same dogmatism has also driven away voters, especially younger ones, who had been drawn to the party by David Cameron’s effort to strike a more socially liberal and inclusive tone.
    — Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019
  • By staying so close to black metal’s core sound, Marchenko does more to undermine the dogmatism—both racial and aesthetic—of Vikernes and his ilk than a more obviously experimental project might.
    — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Steve Sack’s statement on university dogmatism and obstruction begs for clarification.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 4 May 2017
  • The country’s religious dogmatism began to ease early in the 2000s, when tens of thousands of Saudis studied in the United States.
    — Vivian Nereim, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
  • The dependence on individual perspectives as much as knowledge grounded in research and expertise leads to an increasing conflation of faith with science, memory with history, and dogmatism with truth.
    — Eden McLean, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Today, religious dogmatism is often equated with vaccine hesitancy and resistance to basic scientific truths like evolution.
    — Meg Leja, The Conversation, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Today, religious dogmatism is often equated with vaccine hesitancy and resistance to basic scientific truths like evolution.
    — Meg Leja, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Nov. 2023

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