Sentence examples for of absolutist from inspiring English sources

Rubens satisfied the horror vacui of an entire generation of absolutist monarchs.

I'm trying to avoid being judgmental here, in some kind of absolutist way.

It's a tale of absolutist ideals that seemed to curdle and of private torment with drastic results.

He was the leading champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation and of absolutist rule during the Thirty Years' War.

In 1770 the conflict with the parlements had reached such a level that Louis XV was finally goaded into a burst of absolutist energy.

Suppressing liberalism became the chief aim of absolutist regimes in Austria, Russia and Prussia after they helped defeat France in 1815.

In Oslo, Obama was in effect calling the bluff of absolutists on both the right and the left.

Indeed, Evan and a group of "absolutists" rejected the option of farm or factory furlough work and welcomed the inevitable court-­martial.

Original sin thus struck him as an incisive metaphor for human frailty, undermining the pretensions of absolutists and requiring "the democratization of authority".

This is a world full of absolutists on every side -- absolutists putting economic growth first, putting the environment first, putting climate change first, putting the rights and interests of communities and indigenous people first -- and forget the rest!

Living in a world after 9/11, we have all been confronted by the actions of absolutists, be they fundamentalists Muslims who blew up the towers or the fundamentalist Christians who started wars and illegal prisons over the destroyed towers.