How To Use Totalitarian In A Sentence

Through a series of strategic puns Sukenick associates the collection of evidence, analysis and causal sequence with political totalitarianism.
The main thoroughfare there is Midsummer Boulevard, or H6, if you prefer the totalitarian grid system peculiar to the area.
As in so much else, the French revolutionary regime was the precursor of the centralized, totalitarian, managerial, pseudo-democratic despotisms that now reign over the West.
The best way to rid the world of totalitarian regimes is to show their citizens what the rest of the world is really like.
Twentieth-century totalitarian art did not just gild the cage; it helped to build it. Masters of the Dark Arts

If Kerry had had his way, the Soviet Union and the nations behind the Iron Curtain would still be in place - groaning under inefficient, totalitarian Communist regimes.
It worked best at times when the transatlantic alliance faced an existential, totalitarian threat. Times, Sunday Times
We are radicals - not extremists and totalitarians.
It was a call to arms for democrats faced with a totalitarian threat.
any effective opposition to a totalitarian regime must be secretive and cellular
In totalitarian states absolute control of information and the armed forces is the key to the survival of the despot.
They are totalitarians in the strictest meaning of the word.
It is also, however, an approach that can be, and has been, misused by totalitarian regimes.
The Nazi regime provides the least disputable historical example of totalitarian excess.
It can take political stances abhorrent to totalitarian regimes and allegorise them, get them under the radar, as many writers in the Soviet Bloc did. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Hal Duncan
It resulted in a basically feudal and totalitarian system of government that exists today in an adapted form. Drug-Free Pain Relief
The totalitarians spoke a populist language in countries like the United States, but where they achieved power every vestige of democracy was wiped out.
When soft totalitarians get into a bureaucracy or university or media, they go for power over the announced aim of their institution.
Shakespeare thus places himself between utopian totalitarians and libertarian fundamentalists.
The Romanian Revolution was the most dramatic of a wave of uprisings that ended totalitarian rule throughout Eastern Europe.
Again, totalitarianism has an almost irresistible allure - it moves people - by reason of the emotional and essentially religious spirit which its leading apostles have infused into it.
Nevertheless, even absolute monarchs or totalitarian dictators are constrained by forces beyond their control.
Not recognising the deeper motives of those commitments, pinning it all on wonder, is dangerous because it disinclines one to recognise those mechanisms at play in secular - isms like totalitarian ideologies or — most perilously of all, to my mind — scientistic rationalism. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
Now we Americans are getting a strong taste of what it must have been like to live in the totalitarian Soviet Union, fascist Italy, or nazi Germany, where the controlled press and media spouted the imperial line and brooked no protests. Think Progress » Santorum to GOP: Stimulus hypocrisy ‘does undermine your credibility.’
The principle of hierarchy does not equate to totalitarian terror.
The basic elements of this perspective are a strong liberal commitment to human rights, solidarity with the oppressed, and a firm stand against fascism, totalitarianism and tyranny.
In a society seeking moral footing after 50 years of totalitarian rot, he found these public manners personally appalling and potentially combustible.
The link between aesthetics and politics which forms the novel's principal thesis is only an abstract one - in practice, the link did not exist, and most of the writers, artists, filmmakers and composers who began by espousing the cause of a New Jerusalem built from Marxist revolutionism ultimately found themselves cast adrift in a murky sea of violence, war, totalitarianism and genocide. A private story
Through a century marked by ecocide - toxic releases, poisoned lands, nuclear accidents - Russian naturalists have battled, often against a totalitarian government, to save refuges like the one where Tatiana now works.
The old rationale for bearing with mere authoritarians has crumbled away with the passing of the expansionist Marxist-Leninist totalitarians.
But he does not engage in a moral defence of the ideology of liberalism; rather his strategy is the much deeper one of showing that totalitarianism is typically based upon historicist and holist presuppositions, and of demonstrating that these presuppositions are fundamentally incoherent. Karl Popper
Technopoly, in other words, is totalitarian technocracy.
Today we define despotism (along with dictatorship and totalitarianism) as a form of government.
For it came into a world previously marked by despotism, by tyranny, by totalitarian control.
At the same time we hypocritically kiss up to totalitarian regimes such as Saud Arabia. Ahmadinejad accuses Obama of interfering in election
As it operates by controlling from within, synarchy can work inside any system of government, although it tends to favor totalitarian regimes, which have highly centralized governments and therefore fewer institutions to take control of. The Sion Revelation
Despite many contemporary (and to my mind not at all nutty) attempts to decentre the author, in a book like this you can't escape the totalitarian presence (in what I've written above, I too have not succeeded).
An anarchist sets out to undermine Britain's totalitarian government. The Sun
Like all corporations, media companies are essentially totalitarian institutions subject to a strict, top-down hierarchy of control.
The Fabian geniuses failed to see any signs of totalitarian terror and wrote a laudatory book. Times, Sunday Times
People have to continue dying to service this evil, totalitarian regime. Times, Sunday Times
Totalitarian regimes, even more than authoritarian regimes, depend upon extensive coercion for their survival.
For him, all forms of bodily discipline are essentially the same: democracy and totalitarianism are equally carceral.
The United States, he premonished, could not hope to remain an island of democracy in a totalitarian sea.
It's a totalitarian regime that reduces and dehumanizes its population.
Totalitarian regimes, even more than authoritarian regimes, depend upon extensive coercion for their survival.
Who chose this petty bureaucrat to run a totalitarian regime with control over laws governing 500million people? The Sun
They unlock the secret to how a seemingly normal country can find itself plunged into nationalist totalitarianism.
But it is also true that during the same period an estimated 160 million people have lost their lives in inter-state wars, civil strife, totalitarian purges and ethnic cleansing.
It is both a museum and a memorial to the thousands who experienced torture under two different totalitarian regimes in the subterranean cells.
These are purposely put on in these totalitarian societies as of way of subverting the population.
They also launched media campaigns accusing the government of illegitimacy and totalitarian intentions.
But the complexity of his own world view he opposed British involvement in the war but was himself a power-worshiper with a totalitarian itch who believed passionately in human perfectibility charges what might have been a standard-issue Shavian sermon with the multilayered ambiguity of high art. Smile as the Bomb Goes Off
The main agenda is to make Government less accountable to the people and more powerful - similar to socialist and totalitarian governments. Sound Politics: Dismantling your constitutional rights, one step at a time
Seemingly unshakable totalitarian monoliths are in fact sometimes as cohesive as proverbial houses of cards, and fall just as quickly.
But because they have lived through colonial and totalitarian regimes, they are untrusting and contemptuous of those impressive-sounding grand narratives.
There are huge generalizations about how writers develop and age; and for all his moral clarity about totalitarian language, his own prescriptiveness is sometimes severe, sometimes woolly. Such, Such Was Eric Blair
The radical injustice of early capitalism gave birth to the overcompensation of totalitarian communism.
So typical of totalitarian regimes … and the funny kicker is the oblamma / bider propaganda advert in the mix - truly a compelling insertion!. California Literary Review
In totalitarian countries the situation has been somewhat different. The Prisons We Deserve
The totalitarian system in the period of modern technical development can dispense with such men; thanks to modern methods of communication, it is possible to mechanize the lower leadership. Shawn Lawrence Otto: GOP Antiscientists Are Leading America Down a Dangerous Road
Class interest barely figures in the totalitarian approach.
And they crave using the liberty-crushing power of a big government to come into our homes, our churches, and our schools take away our liberties by forcing us to conform to their personal version of what a "good person" should be. (which they don't even all agree upon) It's far closer to totalitarianism than anything the limp-wristed liberals EVER came up with. Are we a Christian Nation?
And when Strauss is mentioned in the press, he is typically described as a great defender of liberal democracy against totalitarian tyranny.
Italian fascism was very distinctive from National Socialism, and neither resembled Japanese totalitarianism.
They welcomed the fall of the Wall and the implosion of the totalitarian regime.
Is the government truly prepared to embrace belt-and-braces cybertotalitarianism, with all the effort and expense that will entail? Times, Sunday Times
This gracefully written summing-up celebrates the triumph of democracy over an Orwellian totalitarianism that had been touted as the wave of the future. Uncontainable
In an age of 30-second political advertisements, truthful speech remains as meaningful to democracies as it is to inveighing against totalitarian regimes.
It is an almost totalitarian attitude to government. Times, Sunday Times
‘A vote for Respect is a vote for totalitarians in an unconvincing left wing costume,’ he declared, before giving lukewarm support to the Liberal Democrats, who ‘took a clear anti-war line’.
The only way concern for social responsibility could disappear would be for society to become totalitarian. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
This highlights the continuing totalitarian assumptions of the state, despite liberalizations flowing from the marketization of the economy.
The United States should not pull out of the U.N. because it elevates totalitarian governments to positions of leadership, though it has.
The old corrupt, totalitarian regime was overthrown.
Stalin has metamorphosed into a totalitarian dictator intent on conquest, and the storm clouds of a new conflict gather.
Every attempt to turn back the time and, furthermore, to restore totalitarian communism is absurd.
Thus the administrative system tends to be larger, in relation to the society, as the political system becomes more totalitarian.
( 'plunderers'), the government ( 'totalitarian') or individual politicians ( 'liars'). Hot Air » Top Picks
Taiwan is a full democracy and North Korea, like the PRC, is a communist totalitarian regime.
Totalitarian regimes, even more than authoritarian regimes, depend upon extensive coercion for their survival.
While I agree that the National Socialist party did have true socialist elements I must stress that I think the great gulf between any democratic party or politician and totalitarians should always be acknowledged.
Totalitarian regimes are not disposed kindly towards their critics; they rule by fear.
The transition from a totalitarian state to a free country will be long and slow.
Thus the administrative system tends to be larger, in relation to the society, as the political system becomes more totalitarian.
She has revealed the totalitarian temptations and shown us the strength of undogmatic humanism. The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 - Presentation Speech
The other themes are genetic manipulation, ‘post-apocalypse’, and totalitarianism.
We've closed our eyes to the plight of those living in totalitarian or theocratic oppression.
But the arbitrariness, the unintelligibility, the absolute mysteriousness of totalitarianism are essential to Berman's larger argument.
I just hope he doesn't try the same trick with other totalitarian or corrupt governments. Times, Sunday Times
The author was, of course, the first to depict a totalitarian gerontocracy.
Much of the political art of the modernist period, and certainly that produced by totalitarian regimes, had been boringly realist and only too obviously subordinated to totalizing ideologies.
I want increased liberty, equality and fraternity, not a diminution of democracy as we are tiptoed into totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
The intellectually significant response to totalitarianism has been a post-fascist phenomenon. AUTHORITY
To claim that the film is reminiscent of ‘totalitarian’ propaganda is as silly as it is unhistorical - and anyway why should the devil have all the best tunes?
In short, Medvedev's ambition is to overcome the Soviet legacy of individual atomism and statist collectivism - when totalitarian state structures undermined social bonds of reciprocal trust and mutual cooperation. Adrian Pabst: President Medvedev's Project Of Modernization
He writes casually well on dreams, relationships and life under totalitarian regimes. Times, Sunday Times
Just as the development of the most advanced economies involves clashes between different priorities, totalitarian state-bureaucratic forms of economic management and countries under colonialism or semicolonialism also exhibit highly divergent types of production and power. 2009 September
Everywhere that people lived under totalitarian dictatorships, they felt he was one of them.
In such talks, Pyongyang would demand, as it has before, large sums of economic aid and political recognition for its totalitarian regime in exchange for promises not to use its weapons.
This movement signals a departure from totalitarian politics in the country that have smothered civil life, made the state a facade and held society in checkmate with constant threats of civil war and external enemies.
In showing how wrong the Americans were in their partiality towards the Soviet Union, Mr Dallas provides a relentless analysis of the murderous totalitarianism of the Soviet state.
I come from a large family stacked with women, consisting of four sisters and twelve aunties, who have taught me how to survive in a totalitarian world in order to survive in any world.
In a world where totalitarianism is all too present, globalization fosters democracy.
Previously, they had not just a dictatorial government, but in many ways a totalitarian government and leader.
Her focus is very much on the centrality of terror to totalitarian regimes.
To turn your customer base into a constantly-on-alert totalitarian wasteland is not the effective solution. - Boing Boing
It is a symbolical play aimed at the vices of capitalism and totalitarianism and rekindling the personal spirit.
Every totalitarian regime makes war on religion precisely because it cannot abide any god besides itself.
Lets not go totalitarian, but a moderate autocracy is ok, so that people have some skin in the game. Matthew Yglesias » Universal Catastrophic Insurance?
The transition from a totalitarian state to a free country will be long and slow.
That fiction would be laughable were it not so dangerously resonant of totalitarian regimes against which this country once stood firm.
In Spain we did have a period of transition from a totalitarian regime to a democracy, just like you.
I could not conceive of him saying, “Our generation has an obligation to use these new forms of communication to create a common mind-set that can bridge the chasm between the failed orders of market capitalism and totalitarianism and the coming age of postpolitical ecumenicism.” EVENING’S EMPIRE
People soon became disillusioned with the more hard-edged forms of modernism, and aghast at the overweening urge to control demonstrated by totalitarian regimes from the thirties to the fifties.
The transition from a totalitarian state to a free country will be long and slow.
People bury themselves in a totalitarian cause that treats people as mere cogs, or else nasty grit, in a mighty and holy machine.
In a totalitarian regime or even an oligarchy we have a ruler, or a group of elites ruling over the masses.
The transition from a totalitarian state to a free country will be long and slow.
This idea that freedom holds as much in the way of unhappiness as totalitarianism harks back to the existential writers who influenced Brink when he studied at the Sorbonne in the 1950s.
First of all, we all know the difference between a totalitarian regime and a democracy.
It's set in a future dystopia, where a lone individual fights against a totalitarian regime.
It is thoroughly disappointing that the editors of the New York Times continue to allow Kristof to write about China, as this sort of writing will someday be a monument for how Western passivism in the face of the Chinese economy lead to the prolonged tenure of a totalitarian government. Kristof's Monument to Passivism On Tiananmen Sq Aniversary
The act of censoring is an attempt against freedom of thought and expression, commonly seen in intolerant and totalitarian regimes. Global Voices in English » Puerto Rico: Debate on Censorship
Generations of people around the world have endured autocracy and dictatorship, totalitarianism, fascism, monarchy, oligarchy and even anarchy without knowing freedom.
These images of well-known totalitarian architecture are overlaid with hazy blue patinas.
When a totalitarian communist dictatorship rises to power, it is quite another thing.
Also, she seems to have felt that nazism was not really a form of anti-Semitism at all, but the first instance of a new and completely generalisable move towards a totalitarian political culture that would use selective genocide quite routinely all over the world, if it was allowed to develop and normalise itself. Comment i posted to johann hari’s article
The only menace around here is a government that is hell bent on enforcing its totalitarian controls on everything we do.
Totalitarian dictatorships and religious hierocracies become so paranoid about their continuity, that every minute aspect of life is legislated for and internal revolution only becomes possible when external disturbances disrupt the structure.
It is characteristic of totalitarian regimes to try to prevent private initiatives in education.
The problem of rehabilitating former totalitarians isn't confined to Western Europe.
But he is also insistent that the West and its "fetishistic" headlines have inaccurately projected its antitotalitarian ideal onto a dissident movement that did not represent "a rejection of the Islamic regime altogether," and which, after all, is named for the color of Islam. NYT > Home Page
The last thing the Government should be doing is to give this sort of helping hand to those besuited theocratic totalitarians who have learnt that there are some things you think and others you say.
If we take RBC seriously, the sin of totalitarian nations who restrict people's movements lies simply in not being imaginative enough.
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Our enemies are the totalitarians who plunged Afghanistan into the Stone Age and who yearn to do the same to America.
Like all totalitarians I was a utopian - I knew that things would get better if we could only get rid of certain people.
In every totalitarian government, secret police were an indispensable device for the consolidation of power, neutralization of the opposition, and construction of a single-party state.
Totalitarian governments love these kind of laws that make everyone a potential criminal, so that authorities can legally justify persecuting anyone they don't like.
In some cases, a republic may be a dictatorial or totalitarian state.
In its more moderated and diffused form it blamed the absence of democracy in totalitarian regimes not on the dictators but on the democracies.
Orwell's genius was to take the theme of a totalitarian dystopia to the max.
It resulted in a basically feudal and totalitarian system of government that exists today in an adapted form. Drug-Free Pain Relief
Totalitarianism is a subset of tyranny, and a rather small and rigidly definable subset; and all of its essential defining qualities are either inventions of the extreme Left, or aped from the extreme Left by liberty-hating nationalists. Radically dishonest
In this battle of minds the most urgent task is to throw a spotlight on an organisation which has, for too long, been able to disguise its true totalitarian nature.
In contrast, 19th century poorhouses burst at the seams, and their regimes became more totalitarian in response.
He saw himself primarily as a political writer, a democratic socialist who avoided party labels and hated totalitarianism.
While the period of interference from political totalitarianism has passed, is it not the case that frequently, across the globe, the exercise of reason and academic research are – subtly and not so subtly – constrained to bow to the pressures of ideological interest groups and the lure of short-term utilitarian or pragmatic goals? Archive 2009-09-01
In totalitarian states absolute control of information and the armed forces is the key to the survival of the despot.
You can't bring down a totalitarian regime with bad art. Times, Sunday Times
As the strongest military power for the foreseeable future, they must play an active role in fighting tyranny, totalitarianism, and terror.
Of course there were heroic modernist artists and writers who opposed twentieth-century totalitarianism, and classicists and traditionalists who supported totalitarianism.
The absence of democracy is variously termed autocracy, dictatorship and totalitarianism. Twentieth Century History - Basic Facts
‘There is, I think, in every one of us something mineral and unteachable,’ says an agent of the totalitarian state in a 1990 novel Lights Out in the Reptile House.
The idyllic scenes and saccharine, sunshiny colors he favors belie the sinister underpinnings of totalitarian rule.
Passionate and principled democrats were slow to recognise the dangers posed by totalitarianism 60 years ago.
The stunning tropical paradise has been transformed into a brutal totalitarian dictatorship where violations of fundamental human rights are commonplace.
In totalitarian societies, art exists for didactic purposes.
Totalitarian dictatorships provided us with a variety of examples, but democracies provided some examples as well.
It confronted the “evil spirit” that had possessed that nation—a totalitarian, emperor-worshipping military cult obsessed with expansion—and violently exorcized it. HOW EVIL WORKS
The classic study of the forces underlying totalitarian regimes.
They believed that these residual symbols were embers of a totalitarian collectivism that also lay smoldering in the socialist state.
Only those who unconditionally and unrestrictedly consider the market economy as the only workable form of social cooperation are opponents of the totalitarian systems and are capable of fighting them successfully.
The fact remains that brute force is boastfully invoked alike in the internal affairs and foreign policies of the totalitarian state.
The citizenry of totalitarian or violently dictatorial states have no legitimate means to discharge this fear.
It stood in contrast to the totalitarianism gathering pace under Lenin and Trotsky which accelerated out of control under Stalin.
His anti-totalitarian views chime closely with the small-scale, communitarian, decentralized politics of the anti-globalization movement. Globe and Mail
The principle of hierarchy does not equate to totalitarian terror.
This reluctance to move towards a democratic state is typical of totalitarian regimes.
As late as the end of the 1920's the word ‘totalitarian’ was used to designate any state which was governed in an authoritarian rather than a parliamentarian manner.
Is it better to classify Nazism and Stalinism together as examples of totalitarianism?
For it came into a world previously marked by despotism, by tyranny, by totalitarian control.
And btw, Evgeniy, InstaPundit is totalitarian communist, or at least he looks like one to me and I have seen a lot, to understand that there are not much difference between the worshippers of unlimited executive power called commies or neocons The Volokh Conspiracy » Symbols:
totalitarian theory and practice
The interruption of totalitarian repression and world war failed to completely remove the cut-up tendency and these days there are plenty of sound artists enthusiastically working on audio cuts ups.
I want increased liberty, equality and fraternity, not a diminution of democracy as we are tiptoed into totalitarianism and authoritarianism.
An Independent Mind was a collection of snapshots from the lives of people around the world who have stood up to and been squashed by totalitarian governments. Times, Sunday Times
If Turkey were a totalitarian state, there would be no case for Armenian self - restraint.
Failure to attend to it often stems not from any Machiavellian wish to sanction some totalitarian outlook, but from too close attention to the blinkering particularities of specialised investigations.
More often, in fact, they are foot soldiers of totalitarian regimes and of mob rule.
The transition from a totalitarian state to a free country will be long and slow.
The counterpart is used only in totalitarian states or military dictatorships.
In his novel 1984, George Orwell describes the hardship and puzzle of people in pursuing truth and pondering the future under the reign of totalitarianism.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union and its client states and the marketization of the Chinese economy, there seem to be no real totalitarian states left in the world as the twenty-first century opens.
Violent suppression and opinion monopoly are used by all totalitarian political systems for the purpose of perpetrating their immoral rule.
Maybe years of living under totalitarian dictatorships left them no choice but to live large in whatever small ways they can.
Indeed, unity is an indispensable plank in the doctrine of scientism, the philosophical underpinning of totalitarian regimes.
Why bother, ask many commentators, expending moral indignation on a totalitarian dictator who is universally despised?
He's brave, full of youthful indiscretion, but inevitably damaged by his childhood in a totalitarian state.
Given the freedom to choose, the country's emerging political leaders rejected totalitarianism. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
And the admiration and support that Western Leftists regularly displayed for Communism before the Soviet implosion shows that Leftists in democratic countries share the same underlying values as the Leftist totalitarians.
I was confused about whether their approach was intended to be ironic, or satirical, or both, or neither ... it was infused with what I thought were obvious clichés, like ladies looking sexy, inscrutable and dour playing drums in militaristic fashion aside the frontman, who sang throaty german lyrics to pretty hard core industrial rock, accompanied by projected images of male gymnasts and words like Totalitariansme and crosses and things. Sleepless in Slovenia.
Rather, for totalitarian movements, as he understood them, mass murder became the only manifestation of the sacred possible in a completely desacralized cosmology.
They were not seen as an important force that could potentially undermine totalitarian regimes from within.
What they all had in common was that they weren't particularly democratic, being variations either on autocracy or on bureaucratic totalitarianism.
But if we again acquiesce we will be reduced to sad and pathetic footnotes in our accelerating transformation from a democracy to a totalitarian corporate state. Matthew Yglesias » Government for Sale
It is an imperialist, irredentist, totalitarian state that will use any means to get its way.
It's a totalitarian regime that reduces and dehumanizes its population.
The classic study of the forces underlying totalitarian regimes.

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