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

One feels sure he would be of that forlorn hope of civilization that carries on a sporadic and ineffective war against officialism and militarism on the one hand, and puritanism and superstition on the other.

From Pot-Boilers by Bell, Clive

Editors, behind their officialism, are human just like other folks, for they think and they work, they laugh and they play, they marry—just as others do.

From Mr. Punch in Bohemia by Various

The English rule, if often weak, had never proved tyrannical, and they had a great dread of French taxes and French officialism.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various