How To Use Elitism In A Sentence
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Horse riding suffers from the taint of elitism and snobbery which is a legacy of the past.
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It was not after all Social Text that drew the absurd conclusion about authoritarianism and elitism; it was Sokal, trying to ventriloquize work he didn't fully understand.
Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange
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Rather than this being understood as outdated elitism, or arrogance, this can be read more subtly.
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Their results remain strong; their ethos is unchanged minus the old social elitism; and none of them would think of going back.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our sport is rife with that same insidious elitism that has decayed the core of other field sports, which now face the very real prospect of being outlawed.
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The spirit of American democracy is opposed to elitism.
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Higher education shed the German tradition of elitism and became egalitarian.
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It starts with three friends with deeply personal agendas to condemn fascism, elitism, classicism, racism and sexism.
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There's an unintentional air of elitism about the event, specialising as it does on unsullied perfect specimens.
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Those who evade this inherent conservatism of literacy in the name of multicultural antielitism are in effect elitists of an extreme sort.
The Theory Behind the Dictionary: Cultural Literacy and Education
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She had little formal education but travelled widely in Europe where her somewhat dramatic taste led to an interest in Italian Mannerism, German Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, and the decadents.
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But scurrility and elitism should have has no place in these forums.
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He is strenuously keen to refute any charges of elitism that might still cling to the place.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'll just be blunt: i find it more than a little ironic that he seems to be defending some of the most privileged people I've ever encountered from the "elitism" of the orcing hordes.
Poetry month: nikki giovanni
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The Clinton campaign declared Senator Obama's speeches won't hide what it called his condescending views of small town America and speaking for the first time on the controversy, Senator McCain accused Senator Obama of elitism.
CNN Transcript Apr 14, 2008
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There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him.
Times, Sunday Times
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The word "elitism" has become increasingly muddied in recent years because of its association with the class system, claimed Tony Little.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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For all its pretensions and elitism, the art movie industry - the producers, the distributors, the cinemas - did at least ensure a diverse and plentiful supply of world cinema.
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There is a difference between excellence and elitism.
Times, Sunday Times
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It became difficult to promote excellence without being accused of elitism.
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They're not lampooning designers in general as much as they are design elitism.
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“The endless internal strife of the Japanese builds up a sense of hubris and elitism,” he argues, “while being on the defense instills a sense of humility and compassion for others … The hero of Japanese manga is ‘I’ while the hero in Korean manhwa is ‘We.’”
02 « February « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
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If liberal elitism is code for educated and intellectually curious then I will take that label all day long.
CNN Political Ticker
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Culturalism smacks of attitudes of superiority and cultural elitism - my culture is better than yours.
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When I hear that attitude, it smacks of elitism.
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There are still some cases of snobbery and elitism in Oxbridge admissions, but this situation won't be helped by government quotas.
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It wouldn’t be an assault on my mind like watching Palin blabber on about elitism.
Think Progress » Poll Shows Palin’s Unfavorability Ratings At All-Time High As Broder Extols Her ‘Populist’ Appeal
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But the horsey sports and the horsey world are no more about social elitism than football.
Times, Sunday Times
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The authors discuss Ngugi's Marxist approach as it informs his portrayal of the postcolony (elitism, class formation, corruption).
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Anything else smacks of ‘elitism’, the paternalist attempt by some to dictate to others what they ought to want.
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An heroic revolution can, in the short space of twenty years, become mired in elitism, bureaucratism and corruption.
Mayibuye Editorial
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There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him.
Times, Sunday Times
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Anything else smacks of ‘elitism’, the paternalist attempt by some to dictate to others what they ought to want.
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Poor old opera: battered by charges of elitism, inaccessibility and snobbery, it would be easy to predict its coming death.
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According to Wikipedia, the term "indie" is generally defined as being "independent from mainstream" - a subculture of non-conformity, avant-garde (novels/experimental), and not a small amount of elitism.
June 27th, 2006
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Other influential works include The Seven Lamps of Architecture (1849), Pre-Raphaelitism (1851), The Stones of Venice (3 vols., 1851-53), Fors Clavigera (1871-84), and Unto This Last (1862).
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies
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Franzen acknowledges the snobbery inherent in his comments, but argues that such elitism is ‘not the reprehensible attitude’ that people commonly believe it to be.
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The elitism often associated with opera seems to have become more pronounced in the last hundred years, with ticket prices being a possible contributory factor.
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There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was a guy, William Henry, who wrote this book then called In Defense of Elitism, and thought it was kind of reactionary in some ways (some over-the-top language designed to provoke and traduce), I thought it was pretty bracing and mostly correct.
Liberals and religion and culture
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It is clear that your hate is founded in your arrogant elitism.
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But the elitism and the populism in this claim are less far apart than they might seem.
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Plus, the label carries with it a bit of arugula-style elitism.
Sophie Brickman: What is a Foodie? Am I One? Are You?
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Most people who allege to have known him personally seem to agree that Calembour was a brilliant, talkative, yet ornery and disagreeable man prone to fits of alcoholism, chain-smoking, argumentativeness, graphomania, and elitism.
Excerpt from Calembouria (in collaboration with Anthony Metivier)
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The British media have created a fierce controversy over Oxford's admission procedures and elitism in general.
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Many people believe that private education encourages elitism.
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Intellectual leftism is grounded in elitism, the idea that a certain subclass of individuals has a vastly superior understanding of how the world ‘really’ works.
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He is strenuously keen to refute any charges of elitism that might still cling to the place.
Times, Sunday Times
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Schumer, whose faith in his sense of the authentic is absolute, is every bit as attuned to perceived Democratic elitism as Fox News is.
The Man in the Middle
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Their ‘arrogant elitism… totally negates the dominant historical role of the masses ’, the paper said.
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Horse riding suffers from the taint of elitism and snobbery which is a legacy of the past.
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In the summer of 1990, the Madchester boom had reached its peak, and the loved-up new hedonism that had been building since 1988 swept away the elitism of the 1980s.
Corinne Day: Pioneer of a new kind of beauty
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The majority of contemporary U.S. political and social theorists are like the majority of American citizens, preferring democratic or republican theories to elitism or divine right.
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At the same time, Du Bois's and Washington's own notions of elitism within ‘the race’ suggest a less obvious yet equally formidable roadblock.
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What is resisted in both Nietzsche's embodied/embedded perspectivism and his elitism is universalism.
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The accusation of elitism seems unfair as the festival presents a wide range of music, with something to please everyone.
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Admittedly new-clee-air is preferred, but let's not forget that words are meant to communicate meanings, so if you understood new-cue-lar then the rest is just elitism.
OPINION
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Fans of such cheap television will accuse me of snobbery and elitism.
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It is unjustified arrogance and inverted elitism to think otherwise.
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If this is the case, then the future for the modern idea of the university and its associated elitism looks bleak.
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As for Ed Gillespie and his famous charge of sexism and elitism, I don't think serious conservatives believe Ed is up nights pondering whiffs and emanations of class tension and gender bias in modern America.
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Debates about the relation between literature and cultural studies are replete with complaints about elitism and charges that studying popular culture will bring the death of literature.
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Among academics, the word "civilization" has long had a sinister ring to it, carrying associations of elitism and luxury.
Hidden Treasure
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He is a contrarian melange of reasonable gastronomic meritocracy and vaunting epicurean elitism.
Times, Sunday Times
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A new social system starts, and seems delightfully free of the elitism and cliquishness of the existing systems.
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Black women and men are empowered by their squads that they’ve found in this life that is inundated by racism, sexism and elitism.
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They have yet to recover from expelling their Jews in 1933, and from the post-WWII emasculation of their traditional elitism in the name of egalitarianism.
Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals
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In this ideological age, the youth movements displayed no small measure of dogmatism and elitism.
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The accusation of elitism seems unfair as the festival presents a wide range of music, with something to please everyone.
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The creative possibilities for thinking about postmodern ethnic and racial identity are currently betrayed by the continuing elitism of ethnic scholarship, musicology, and academic discourse.
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The accusation of elitism seems unfair as the festival presents a wide range of music, with something to please everyone.
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The accusation of elitism seems unfair as the festival presents a wide range of music, with something to please everyone.
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He breaks new ground, capturing the delicate amalgam of reason and reaction, elitism and populism, that was the counter-revolution.
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These solutions reek of elitism, of rule from above, of imposition.
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Wine has had a tendency to carry with it a stigma of elitism and snobbery.
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Intracommunity differences, such as colorism and class elitism, can be overcome.
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The other is elitism, a charge that clearly grates on him and unnerves his wife, who has a great deal that would be attractive in a first lady (intelligence, accomplishment, beauty) but lacks placidity, which is, actually, necessary.
While McCain Watches
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The term "populism" is the more common label for commercial elitism, while "elitism" is almost always reserved for critical elitism, so from here on in those are the terms I'll use.
The Latest Teacup Tempest
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There's an unintentional air of elitism about the event, specialising as it does on unsullied perfect specimens.
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He assumed her pugnacious antielitism struck a chord that still reverberated with people who even in good times couldn’t shake their sense of persecution.
O: A Presidential Novel
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There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him.
Times, Sunday Times
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The chair rotated annually and committee membership was limited to two successive years in order to avoid the dangers of elitism and institutionalisation.
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Does he want to stamp out elitism or promote excellence?
Times, Sunday Times
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There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him.
Times, Sunday Times
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This man has been seen stripping down to his underwear and shadow-boxing all in the name of sports elitism.
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Seeing as Parker has spent most of his life lambasting the elitism of British society, isn't it a bit rich to then suddenly roll over when the Queen comes calling?
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There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is a real worry in the profession that this registration will create an elitism between different sides of the social work profession - those who have qualifications and can be registered, or can afford it, and those who do not.
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We say that the attacks on us are part of anew tide of anti-intellectualism, anti-elitism and anti-internationalism.
Times, Sunday Times
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The accusation of elitism seems unfair as the festival presents a wide range of music, with something to please everyone.
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Does he want to stamp out elitism or promote excellence?
Times, Sunday Times
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Others accused the group of promoting corporate hegemony, one-world government, or elitism.
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Intracommunity differences, such as colorism and class elitism, can be overcome.
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As long as we persist in reducing any debate about immediacy and complexity to an argument over populism and elitism, though, that debate will continue to degenerate from a discussion of aesthetics to a political struggle between Populists and Elitists, each seeking to impose their view on How Writing Is Done.
Archive 2007-02-01
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It is clear that your hate is founded in your arrogant elitism and your rank racism.
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An emphasis on social context has long been looked to as an alternative to the elitism and limited scope of Greenbergian formalism.
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The appearance of elitism comes from a sense that the president's team "just doesn't get it," that they are insensitive to the plight of ordinary Americans.
Michael Roth: We Need to Create Trust
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Funny how, in our much vaunted classless society, where everyone congratulates everyone else on how equal we have become, quarrels about elitism keep coming back.
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The stock-market became a ‘people-friendly’ place with no space for snobs, hierarchies, elitism and pretence.
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He is strenuously keen to refute any charges of elitism that might still cling to the place.
Times, Sunday Times
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The British media have created a fierce controversy over Oxford's admission procedures and elitism in general.
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I can't tell whether the Work has really followed up on this kind of gnostic elitism, because the Work is as secretive as the SSPX is transparent.
Vatican names chosen?
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Down deep, forces like populism, libertarianism and skepticism of government - throw in some cultural conservatism and a dash of antielitism and, according to Tea Party critics, some measure of residual racism - created the swell that swept over American politics in
TIME.com: Top Stories
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The British media have created a fierce controversy over Oxford's admission procedures and elitism in general.
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Promoted to Headline (H3) on 3/12/09: "Empire, Elitism, Externalities, and Extinction" yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = '"Empire, Elitism, Externalities, and Extinction"'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: The real choice for informed Americans is not French socialism vs. American democracy, but rather peoples success with European/Japan, and world-wide \'social democracy\' vs. tyrannical ruling-elite \'corporate financial Empire\ '.'
"Empire, Elitism, Externalities, and Extinction"
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Does he want to stamp out elitism or promote excellence?
Times, Sunday Times
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This was an elitism based not on the traditional values of the British ruling class, but on the new global super-rich who are close to the Labour government, and who have made their base in London with its sympathetic tax laws.
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Culturalism smacks of attitudes of superiority and cultural elitism - my culture is better than yours.
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They and their patrons reinvented the art of promotion and hype in part by attacking good taste and the stuffy elitism of the art world.
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Fans of such cheap television will accuse me of snobbery and elitism.
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Once I was nearly turned away from a club - known more for its earthiness than its elitism - because a bouncer had detected ‘sporty elements’ in my footwear.
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Intellectual leftism is grounded in elitism, the idea that a certain subclass of individuals has a vastly superior understanding of how the world ‘really’ works.
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For now, however, the "foxes" of elitism and separationism are guarding the "henhouse" of NC diversity.
Congress of Neighborhoods Dog-and-Pony Show
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But the horsey sports and the horsey world are no more about social elitism than football.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the start there had been a strong streak of elitism in their outlook.
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There can be no superiority or elitism about this.
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What I am annoyed about is bitchiness and elitism - slating others off because either one perceives them as inferior or superior in some way.
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The accusation of elitism seems unfair as the festival presents a wide range of music, with something to please everyone.
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Elitism, on the contrary, is the denigration of art and its consequent maintenance as the preserve of an affluent and educated minority.
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The British media have created a fierce controversy over Oxford's admission procedures and elitism in general.
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She had little formal education but travelled widely in Europe where her somewhat dramatic taste led to an interest in Italian Mannerism, German Romanticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, and the decadents.
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The invidious comparison implicit in this idea - or rather the elitism, to give it its contemporary nomme de guerre - has understandably given rise to angry backlashes and counter-revolutions.
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Beginning in the 1970s, the LaRouchites combined populist antielitism with attacks on leftists, environmentalists, feminists, gay men and lesbians, and organized labor.
The level of stupid is just awesome.
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These private men's clubs continued the European traditions of elitism and gender exclusion.
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I've increasingly become convinced that in order to be any kind of a public-intellectual commentator or combatant, one has to be unafraid of the charges of elitism.
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After WWII, though, elitism in admissions was thrown out the window and Gottingen hardly even shows up on top global college lists.
Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals
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Even the terminology is dangerous: the old word wetback is now considered a racist insult by all good liberals; and the perfectly correct terms illegal alien and illegal immigrant can set off charges of xenophobia, elitism, fascism, and the ever-popular genocide against anyone careless enough to use them.
What To Call An Illegal Alien??
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He had a profound anti-intellectual attitude to medical elitism.
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Many people believe that private education encourages elitism.
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Then everything escaped from him at once, his exploding breath and his fundamental hatred of Hanuman's elitism.
THE BROKEN GOD
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There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him.
Times, Sunday Times
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It did read as elitist to my eyes on a several counts and somebody has already picked up on the 'only in Tassie' aspect - more elitism being displayed here I fear.
Diminishing the Intellect of Cab Drivers
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The accusation of elitism seems unfair as the festival presents a wide range of music, with something to please everyone.
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I do think these things can be discussed and criticised without accusations of elitism coming up.
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Your ignorance and elitism is on full display if you think I'm summarily dismissing science as a whole by questioning AGW/CC.
About: Blinded by Science
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But a number of commentators noted that the accusations against Mr. Strauss-Kahn pointed not only to elitism in the Socialist party - the "caviar left" - but also to what they termed clubby corruption and even immorality.
NYT > Home Page
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This man has been seen stripping down to his underwear and shadow-boxing all in the name of sports elitism.
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Paradise builds on West's critique, exploring colorism, elitism, and patriarchy as structures that compose the black bourgeois ideal.
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It starts with three friends with deeply personal agendas to condemn fascism, elitism, classicism, racism and sexism.
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Now he is using his status to enforce a new brand of elitism.
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Many Greeks considered speculative philosophies the highest human ideals, with their concomitant emphasis on rhetoric, esoterica , and elitism.
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With my recent piece in Cato Unbound, several people have questioned whether my elitism is consistent with libertarianism.
The Mirage of Libertarian Populism, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Mr Little acknowledged that Eton had a reputation for elitism but insisted that "what we need to do is reclaim the word elite".
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Perhaps because of her humble background, she studiously avoids the elitism and authoritarianism of many of her competitors.
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The author's cynicism is ultimately rooted in a common confusion, a false conflict between democracy and elitism, one that forgets the ways in which these two human ideals actually depend on one another.
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Also it reflects society's move from elitism to at least nominal or desired equality.
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It shows a single circus performance with Tati as one of the performers; the acts are less than spectacular, but the audience avails itself of Tati's invitation to join in, in an example of what Jonathan Rosenbaum has called Tati's "antielitism.
Chicago Reader
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The weakest link in elitism is how we could decide who is elite.
Elitism: The Lesser Poison, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Ellen accused Bernard of being anti-feminist, and attempting to ghettoize ethnic minorities; he accused her of racism and white elitism.
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Do we really want a return to an antiquated system of privilege and elitism?
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It is also expected to speed up the reform of a judiciary that is dominated by elitism and conservatism.
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He examines six areas of Shakespeare's works (what he calls misogyny, effemiphobia, machismo, elitism and mobocracy, racialism and intelligent design), proposing that cases from each, "admittedly without conclusive proof ... may be the result of his personal convictions and experiences," as well as (in addition to) the cultural zeitgeist of his time.
PhiloBiblos
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He is strenuously keen to refute any charges of elitism that might still cling to the place.
Times, Sunday Times
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To begin with he showed much of the elitism which often characterises anarchism - he despised his fellow prisoners because they were only interested in themselves and not in ‘the cause’.
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The Darwinian struggle for a private kindergarten spot is also evidence of the triumph of the cognitive elitism that began in the sixties.
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If this happens, it will be in part a reaction to the 'pedia's awful reputation in education, and also because of the Citizendium's celebration of credentialism and, on a related level, elitism.
Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Sanger versus Web 2.0, or crumbs dropped from on high
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The same elitism that deems the only people qualified to be Supreme Court Justices as only those who attended Harvard or Yale, is the same elitism that will continue to push the bluebook.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Case for Abolishing the Bluebook
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Rather than this being understood as outdated elitism, or arrogance, this can be read more subtly.
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Elitism establishes itself on such a putative ability to rise above mundane choices.
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There's a perceived elitism and something aloof about him.
Times, Sunday Times
