Sentence examples for defunct ideology from inspiring English sources
Russia is neither exporting a defunct ideology nor fighting proxy wars with America, as it did during the cold war.
In a book of that name, Sam Tanenhaus wrote that: "Today's conservatives resemble the exhumed figures of Pompeii, trapped in postures of frozen flight, clenched in the rigor mortis of a defunct ideology".
Even North Korea is less dangerous than Pakistan — a Stalinist country with a defunct ideology and a bomb is infinitely less dangerous than a country with a bomb and a new ideology in the full vigor of its first birth.
In a time when serious poets, and serious poetry readers, learn from their schooldays that romance is a defunct ideology and "sentimentality" in verse tantamount to crime, a love poem without irony, anguish or regret from a major-league 21st-century English-language poet sounds as unlikely a feat as a bel canto opera full of hummable arias or a panoramic history painting on a town-hall ceiling.
And here is the irony of it all--while Iran's President Rouhani received red carpet treatment in Italy and France, you are being cast as a loathsome leader blinded by a defunct ideology decades past its time.
The big secular ideologies, from Nasserism to Baathism, are defunct.
Nor are his methods defunct.
We declare our society defunct.
