INDIVIDUALISM in a Sentence

Learn INDIVIDUALISM from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
355 example sentences for INDIVIDUALISM, such as:
1. Besides, individualism has really the higher aim.
2. The individuals concerned have some explaining to do.
3. The media seems obsessed with hyping up individuals or groups.
4. Institutions provide a context in which individuals can take on different roles.
5. The new manager changed a talented collection of individuals into a cohesive unit.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of INDIVIDUALISM
individualism
 n.  the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs
 n.  a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence
Classic Sentence: (201 in 14 pages)
1  Besides, individualism has really the higher aim.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
2  The negroes had frolicked through the legislature, grasping aliens had mismanaged the government, private individuals had enriched themselves from public funds.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVIII
3  But in her work in the library, children had become individuals to her, citizens of the State with their own rights and their own senses of humor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
4  Remark, however, that in different individuals these rates are different; but in any one they are alike.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
5  Now, though such great bodies are at times encountered, yet, as must have been seen, even at the present day, small detached bands are occasionally observed, embracing from twenty to fifty individuals each.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
6  Those negroes who are attempting to make the lynching of individuals of their race a means for arousing the worst passions of their kind are playing with a dangerous sentiment.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
7  The white people won't stand this sort of thing, and whether they be insulted as individuals are as a race, the response will be prompt and effectual.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
8  They were women who idolized their children, worshiped their husbands, and esteemed it a holy privilege to efface themselves as individuals and grow wings as ministering angels.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In IV
9  The effects produced by the appalling sights that constantly arose in their path to the lake shore, were as different as the characters of the respective individuals who composed the party.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
10  As no time was to be lost, the instant the choice was made the individuals appointed rose in a body and left the place without speaking.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
11  In a few minutes they reappeared, escorting the individuals who had caused all these solemn preparations toward the seat of judgment.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
12  The author hopes she has done justice to that nobility, generosity, and humanity, which in many cases characterize individuals at the South.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  The results of schools, founded for them by benevolent individuals in Cincinnati, fully establish this.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
14  And let it be remembered that these individuals have thus bravely succeeded in conquering for themselves comparative wealth and social position, in the face of every disadvantage and discouragement.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
15  Another thing which greatly hurts a government is to keep alive bitter feelings in men's minds by often renewed attacks on individuals, as was done in Rome after the decemvirate was put an end to.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLV.
Example Sentence: (154 in 11 pages)
1  The selfishness of the small proprietor has been described by the best writers as individualism.
2  In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.
3  Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.
4  The school strives to treat pupils as individuals and to help each one to achieve their full potential.
5  The new manager changed a talented collection of individuals into a cohesive unit.
6  I found a very mixed group of individuals some of whom I could relate to and others with whom I had very little in common.
7  The individuals concerned have some explaining to do.
8  That information arises from what individuals and organizations collectively define and act upon.
9  There is no way at present of predicting which individuals will develop the disease.
10  They promised that individuals could live freely without fear of reprisal from the military.
11  They are individuals; they will not follow the herd.
12  Currently, the individuals who might have caused the accident are subject to/under investigation.
13  The media seems obsessed with hyping up individuals or groups.
14  PMP is the world's most widely recognized PM certification program, in terms of number of individuals certified.
15  Institutions provide a context in which individuals can take on different roles.