chauvinism

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Brie Larson produces and stars in “Lessons in Chemistry” as a scientist who, faced with the chauvinism of 1950s society, channels her passions into a TV cooking show that stirs science into her recipes.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

“The current flourishing of novels by women and cultural minorities,” he concedes, “shows the chauvinism of judging the vitality of American letters by the fortunes of the traditional social novel.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 21, 2023

Of McBride’s various creations, his most beloved have been Southerners who embody a flamboyantly American brand of male chauvinism, and Jesse Gemstone is no exception.

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2023

It was precisely that granular aspect of Torvald’s chauvinism that Moayed wanted to explore.

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2023

It says something about our century, our attitude toward life, our obsession with disease and death, our human chauvinism.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas