exceptionalist
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They also clarify the damage wrought by our collective amnesia and our refusal to learn from history – an outgrowth of our propensity to view our place in history from an exceptionalist perspective.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2025
Along the way Drake came to embody a streak of Englishness — bumptious, tenacious, patriotic, crafty, vainglorious and defiantly exceptionalist — that is back with a vengeance.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2021
I found your book to be a pretty good antidote to exceptionalist thinking.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2020
Even later, as much of the country acquiesced to the greed-is-good eighties and the end-of-history nineties, Esalen clung to its exceptionalist vibe.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 19, 2019
While King did care about black and/or poor people in the United States and around the world, he was no American exceptionalist.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2018
On one side are the traditionalists, exceptionalists and reactionaries, who argue that men such as Thomas Jefferson remain beyond reproach, in spite of what we know about their deep-seated hypocrisy on the question of slavery.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2020
"There were still plenty of American exceptionalists," he says, who believed the US was unique among nations.
From BBC ● Nov. 27, 2018
For a certain stripe of older fan, the Roots are exceptionalists who embody all of hip-hop’s potential as an extension of the soul music tradition, and who keep hip-hop viable as live performance.
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2016
He ended by echoing the shining "city upon a hill" metaphor used by the great American exceptionalists from John Winthrop to Ronald Reagan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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