divisiveness

Example Sentences

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I think with everything that’s happening in the world right now, especially in this country, with Latinos and queer communities being targeted, demonized — there’s never been a more important time to say, “Look at me on the inside. Stop with all of this divisiveness. See people for who they are.”

From Los Angeles Times

“The first time Annie photographed me, more than ten years ago at my home, she sensed my discomfort right away and knew it was not merely about my general awkwardness with being photographed. It was specifically about my belly, which was newly postpartum, although I would probably still have worried even if it wasn’t. … Annie’s sanguine reaction was a relief. There was no divisiveness, no judgment.”

From Los Angeles Times

And while television viewers may march in different rallies and choose their opposing heroes and villains on the nightly news, there’s nothing like a few crazy costumes and a little ridiculousness to cut through the divisiveness and tap-dance into our hearts.

From Salon

Yes, in her 1992 address at New York University School of Law, remarks she titled “Speaking in a Judicial Voice,” Ginsburg, a year from becoming a Supreme Court justice, did say that the breadth of the court’s opinion in Roe created “prolonged divisiveness” and “deferred stable settlement of the issue.”

From Slate

"It holds a mirror up to society and talks about the divisiveness in our culture and the fact that there's so much polarity."

From BBC