How to Use futurism in a Sentence

futurism

noun
  • There is always a slightly dark side to futurism, and our space-age dreams had them.
    — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 19 July 2019
  • The theme is close to the sound of fascist marches but also takes up the ideas of futurism.
    — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 13 Jan. 2025
  • People have referred to your music as retro-futurism or neo-soul.
    — Raisa Bruner, Time, 25 Oct. 2017
  • This lack of futurism feeds through to the production design.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Oct. 2023
  • And that is not the futurism that Marcus Strickland has in mind.
    — Khari Nixon, SPIN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Koral’s high-shine fits bring an element of futurism to the fitness space.
    — Vogue, 3 Dec. 2021
  • The over-all effect is that of a charmingly hopeful retro-futurism.
    — The New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2017
  • With its raw purity, each piece is an emblem of both futurism and brutalism.
    — Sofia Celeste, Footwear News, 20 Nov. 2025
  • That sort of futurism is probably going to lead to our undoing rather than saving us.
    — Dave Holmes, Esquire, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The result of this fusion was a new brand of conservative futurism.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2025
  • The label rose to fame during the decade, after all, thanks to its refreshing modernism and futurism.
    — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Baron sees his book as being about the path to futurism in journalism, about his and the paper’s rise to the great Bezosian game.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
  • There's no formal dress code for the gala, but guests are encouraged to display their own personal concept of futurism.
    — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The gadgetry and the futurism in the design was actually one of the biggest challenges.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2022
  • San Francisco is a city of mighty bridges, clattering cable cars, and next‑gen futurism.
    — Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Nothing rips me out of the ‘cassette futurism’ of this franchise more than clips from a movie that released in 2002.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Nothing rips me out of the ‘cassette futurism’ of this franchise more than clips from a movie that released in 2002.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Technology in the first two movies was rooted in the retro futurism of the ’70s and ’80s.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • All of those gadgets blend aspects of retro-tech and futurism, and the TP-7 is no exception.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 12 May 2023
  • Also, just the world feels so different with the 1960s retro futurism going on.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The car is a blend of radical futurism and established conventions.
    — Popular Mechanics, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Metal studs lent a touch of punk to a black wool mini dress; a similar look featured circular cutouts that evoked his signature futurism.
    — New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Minority Report is a crime thriller with all kinds of twisted, sci-fi futurism tech from sick sticks to eye-digging robots.
    — Grace Dean, Space.com, 1 July 2026
  • This hopeful futurism — diversity without the conflict — strongly appealed to the elites who poured in the cash.
    — Ben Smith, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The mixture of cool, utopian futurism and Messianic redemption is itself a sci-fi trope.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2021
  • On the other hand, for a more positive futurism to be more than just wild-eyed fantasy, there has to be a credible path to arrive at that better place, to get from here to there.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The cassette futurism / analog-punk aesthetic is on full display here, though Hawley makes a couple grievous errors on this front as well.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But by referring to a deep tradition of British childhood writing, Ishiguro blends his futurism with a whole other canon.
    — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Stanton, by far the most science-fiction-oriented of Pixar auteurs, has a habit of merging high-tech futurism and grand-scale optimism.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
  • Customers had familiarized themselves with the sleek, silver futurism of the iMac’s look, which had remained consistent for more than a decade.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 7 June 2021

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