Sentence examples for individualism as from inspiring English sources

People like driving because it enables individualism, as well as propulsion.

Maslow's conclusions seem ethnocentric now, but the idea that some cultures might not value individualism as much as Americans do was not so obvious then.

Maugham is a curmudgeonly out-of-touch old git but in the midst of his disdain he identifies a very different kind of individualism as well.

The minting of these new forms of marriage is a symptom of our culture's contemporary radical individualism — as is the decline of traditional marriage — and not its cause.

She resists his sensitivity to collective shame, proffering a clean, modern individualism: "As long as it is not your fault, as long as you are not responsible the dishonour doesn't stick to you".

Though paying lip service to rugged individualism as much as Americans ever had, they were deeply beholden to their companies.

Well, its critique of I'm-all-right-Jack individualism is as relevant as it was shortly after Thatcher, even if Daldry's production threatens to let the present day off the hook.

Their observations are more spontaneous, less nuanced and considered than those in the book, without the note of regret that sometimes pops up there — for example, the idea that American individualism is isolating as well as liberating.

People feared that the rise of mighty corporations was undermining the traditional American values of individualism and accountability, as well as corrupting our political system, to the detriment of the public good.

For example, in the third essay, 'Pleasure for Pleasure's Sake', a still-classic critique of hedonistic utilitarianism, Bradley argues that its individualism is insupportable, as is its hedonistic conception of happiness as a pleasurable state identifiable independently of the means by which it is attained (so that it could in principle be achieved more conveniently than through moral behaviour).

The definition of success, always divorced from Western (self-driven) individualism, was as narrow and societally mandated as in dynastic China.