Sentence examples for individualism itself from inspiring English sources

The term individualism itself, and its equivalents in other languages, dates like socialism and other isms from the 19th century.

Individualism also asserted itself in the voicing of Ives's unusual harmonies, where the inner parts asserted themselves in unexpected and revealing ways.

The idea of individualism is reasserting itself, but it becomes perilous for those involved when it is expressed as political activism.

How ready were the media to disgrace the grudging voices that foresaw the ruin of communities, the evils of excess, the breakdown of trust between people and the florid individualism that expresses itself in inequalities of which even that visionary of injustice Margaret Thatcher could only dream.

It was part babysitting, dealing with the unruliness that was the result of a society that increasingly emphasized self-esteem and individualism over achievement itself.

Our corporate culture prides itself on individualism, but it's the "team player" with the fixed smile who gets to be employee of the month.

Social democracy celebrates individualism, while relentlessly patting itself on the back for its sense of solidarity — a coherent team with room for stars.

A gigantic Walmart marks the arrival of chain corporations in a society priding itself on its individualism.

Nothing could be more antithetical to Marant's own style, which prides itself on an eclectic individualism.

Not quite; what the two countries differ in is their respective assumptions concerning what must be protected: on the one hand, a rights-based individualism that can take care of itself and would be diminished by nanny-state intervention, on the other, a psychological and societal fragility that must be shored up by law.

But in a country that prides itself on free-market individualism, the state's role in the auto industry has proved a controversial issue, as the BBC's Paul Mason reports.