presentist

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• Carroll Smith-Rosenberg's 1975 essay, "The Female World of Love and Ritual," represented a critical shift away from a simplistic and presentist notion of sexuality to a more complex, nuanced, and historicized understanding of sexual possibilities in an era before the emergence of a concept of sexual identity.

  Academic text (1990)

• In a more presentist light, hopeful Union supporters named other trees after human "giants" such as Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln.

  Academic text (2004)

• So there are radical presentist in the the physics community.

• Legal scholarship is only interesting if it might inform presentist normative decision making.

• Well, well, Robertson said, and I I knew this before from Lee that that he's a presentist about time.

• One need not be presentist to conclude that Brigham Young harbored deep racist notions.

  Blog text (2)

• "Americans were too presentist in their belief in ruthless absolutes and simple-minded utopias."

  Academic text (1992)

• The organic revolutionary sensibility of online journalism guarantees that the cybernetic and informationalist idioms and dispositions of online journalism are relentlessly presentist and future-oriented.

  Academic text (2010)

• Critics argue that a presentist viewpoint can distort our understanding of historical contexts and cultural values.

• In debates about past leaders, many commentators exhibit a presentist bias, evaluating their decisions without considering the norms of their time.

How Presentist

anachronistic

9 9.6

presentist

• Jargon

1 9.3

contextual

12 5.5

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