Sentence examples for modern ideology from inspiring English sources
"It concerns the rise of the modern ideology that we now live in, which is essentially managerial.
Probably the best student of this modern ideology is the conservative historian John Lukacs, whose 2005 book "Democracy And Populism: Fear and Hatred" makes clear how different the nationalist formula is from patriotism properly so called: it rests not on a sense of pride in place or background but in an intense sense of victimization.
Perhaps of all of his writings, the seminal essay 'The Power of the Powerless' is his finest, an exemplary articulation of modern ideology's inner workings.
And while neither Democrats nor Republicans have a modern ideology of governing, ad-hoc references to FDR and a sense of social obligation sure beat punishment and rigged markets which, it seems, are the twin pillars of Republican policy platforms.
Thus, as a modern ideology, Islamic fundamentalism is against modern social concepts such as democracy, respect for human rights, secularism, and feminism, because it aspires to return the society to a "golden era".
Yet racism as we understand it today is a relatively modern ideology that first took shape in the 17th and 18th century as a moral justification for European conquest, particularly the enslavement of African people, which had become a significant source of wealth for Western imperialist nations.
Also individualism is now firmly at the centre of most modern ideologies.
The Islamist movement, like other modern ideologies, seeks to capture the existing state and then transform society through the tools of modern government.
He showed how ancient myths coalesced with modern ideologies to give prominence to a racist tract proved to be a hoax.
"Thus did he waken their minds to the possibility that liberalism is not the philosophia ultima but just another item in the baleful catalogue of modern ideologies".
Like Tagore and Tanizaki before him, Tanpinar upheld the felt experience of ordinary life against the dehumanising abstractions and empty promises of modern ideologies.
