quietism

How To Use quietism In A Sentence

• After a while, you long for a little quietism. The Times Literary Supplement
• Yet while Taoist teachings were unsystematic and emphasized quietism and inspiration, Buddhism offered a systematic philosophical framework and a tradition of textual scholarship.
• Conservatism and caution can become complacency and quietism, even though they don't start that way.
• Mr. Sistani, the true hero of Iraq's survival and incipient renaissance, is the standard-bearer of the traditional Shiite view of politics called "quietism," which rejects the clerical rule invented by the Ayatollah Khomenei in Iran. Coming to Terms With Iraqi Democracy
• The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness.
• Whatever his technical limitations, however, Vrel's interiors are memorable intimist images of domestic quietism.
• Spencer produced the venerable Basil Pennington now deceased with the abbot, whose name I cannot recall, who invented "centering prayer" - a form of prayer that is pretty much associated with "quietism". Archive 2006-11-05
• This is what I call the specially British form of [135] Quietism, or Culture and Anarchy
• Those who believe that all affairs of state will shortly come to an end are, for obvious reasons, inclined to political quietism.
• The fundamental Quaker idea of "quietism," as it was called, or peaceful, silent contemplation as a spiritual form of worship and as a development of moral consciousness, was very widespread at the close of the The Quaker Colonies, a chronicle of the proprietors of the Delaware