ism
Example Sentences
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“Capitalism without capital is just an ism,” he sometimes said, as he understood the importance of economic mobility.
But then once I met him, I fell in love with his little -isms.
From Los Angeles Times
And he came of age in the long shadow of modern art’s towering and, he felt, likely terminal -isms.
One “-ism” after another evolved to affirm the artistic impulse to make it new over and again.
“Isms, in my opinion, are not good. A person should not believe in an ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon: ‘I don’t believe in “Beatles,” I just believe in me.’
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
