officialism
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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
What is inhuman in modern life is officialism.
From Slate ● Jun. 16, 2018
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
It is not to deny that American officialism is rather peculiar on this point, but to inquire what it really is which makes America peculiar, or which is peculiar to America.
From What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The history of this meeting ending in the so-called "Manchester" or "Peterloo massacre," has been strongly coloured by party spirit and sympathy with the victims of reckless demagogy no less than of blundering officialism.
From The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by George C. (George Charles) Brodrick
