officialism

Example Sentences

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What is inhuman in modern life is officialism.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018

It is the result in our days of stereotyped systems, of hard-and-fast rules, of centralization, of officialism, and of irresponsible authority.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018

The description of the intrigue and officialism, the perpetual panic in which the foreign professors at the university lived, given by Hearn in a letter to Ellwood Hendrik, is extremely funny.

From Lafcadio Hearn by Kennard, Nina H.

She spoke slowly and precisely, and there was a smack of college about her, a scholastic officialism of manner that raised a barrier of reserve between herself and her pupils, difficult to cross.

From The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela

About that there will be something to be said later; but superficially it is true that this degree of officialism is comparatively unique.

From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)