divisiveness

Example Sentences

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“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

The stark choice we’d each be making between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, divisiveness or unity, loomed throughout.

From The Wall Street Journal

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