chauvinism
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Her stories are well-told, relevant and often searing, detailing an elementary-school teacher’s slight, a hometown swimming-pool reckoning and chauvinism from an Ivy League club.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026
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
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
Vince recognizes some of the difficulties, noting that for her plan to succeed, humans would first have to abandon racism, chauvinism and nationalism and become citizens of the world.
From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022
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
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