Example Sentences

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He enrolled in a traditionalistic atelier poorly suited for forward-thinking painters.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

Elazar associates traditionalistic political culture with the southern portion of the United States, where it developed in the upper regions of Virginia and Kentucky before spreading to the Deep South and the Southwest.

From Textbooks • Jul. 28, 2021

“Georgia is a very different state than Maryland. … You have a pretty traditionalistic culture in Georgia, which makes it more of an uphill fight,” said Rouse, the University of Maryland professor.

From Slate • Jun. 25, 2018

Richard Fording, who teaches politics and history at the University of Alabama, attributes it to the South's "traditionalistic" culture, which embraces "a more hierarchical society with strict class divisions."

From US News • Jul. 17, 2015

There he stood last week�in the redecorated, reopened, reclaimed-from-television, traditionalistic Ziegfeld Theater�telling the same jokes that he has been reworking for 30 years.

From Time Magazine Archive