What's the difference between dogma and modernism?

Dogma


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is held as an opinion; a tenet; a doctrine.
  • (n.) A formally stated and authoritatively settled doctrine; a definite, established, and authoritative tenet.
  • (n.) A doctrinal notion asserted without regard to evidence or truth; an arbitrary dictum.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a Europe (including Britain) where austerity has become the economic dogma of the elite in spite of massive evidence that it is choking growth and worsening the very sickness it claims to heal, there are plenty of rational, sensible arguments for taking to the streets.
  • (2) Aware that her press secretary, Bernard Ingham, a former labour correspondent for the Guardian who understood the range of attitudes within trade unions, had tried to soften the impression that she saw Kinnock as another General Galtieri [Argentina’s president during the Falklands war], the draft text tried to distinguish between unions, rival parties and what the final text (the one she actually delivered) called “an organised revolutionary minority” with their “outmoded Marxist dogma about class warfare”.
  • (3) Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
  • (4) On Thursday, conservative analyst Ross Douthat wrote: “A party whose leading factions often seemed incapable of budging from 1980s-era dogma suddenly caved completely.” On Friday, former top Barack Obama strategist David Axelrod tweeted : “The Day After: seems as if @GOP establishment is measuring @realDonaldTrump as a moldable vessel.
  • (5) Whatever the dogma, opposition to it is not just wrong, it is immoral.
  • (6) The results challenge dogma regarding the natural history of exacerbation rates and the assumption that we can reliably assign patients to a specific disease type.
  • (7) Nick Clegg's office sent out private briefings to Liberal Democrat MPs on Monday urging them to condemn Theresa May's plans to pull out of all EU judicial co-operation as an example of Eurosceptic Tory dogma being put before the need to keep UK families safe from criminals.
  • (8) There is nothing he said which could be understood as an incitement to violence, and nothing which is not obviously true, and commonplace outside the squalid little dogma that suffocates the human spirit in Saudi.
  • (9) The unquestioning citation of a dogma of the Ancients until modern times is a common phenomenon in medical history.
  • (10) He went on to make a series of well-received comedies set in his New Jersey "View Askewniverse" (Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back) before 2004's ill-fated Jersey Girl raised eyebrows by casting Jennifer Lopez.
  • (11) For children the world is still a flexible, plastic construct, and then the dogma and sense of adulthood drains in.
  • (12) Some original data are included, but for the most part a critical analysis is presented of such information as is available and the dogma which has become established in this difficult area of research.
  • (13) He has plans to change the way social workers are trained (they are too hamstrung by "dogma", too reluctant to take at-risk kids into care).
  • (14) This is simply about dogma from old-fashioned Tories wedded to privatisation.
  • (15) The dogma that keeps people heartlessly alive is not religious but entirely secular: it is the fear of lawyers and not the fear of God which runs health policy today.
  • (16) We can disagree about whether the EU has been a socialist or capitalist influence – too much red tape or too much free market dogma, too much statist meddling or too much restriction on government deficits – but it is undeniable that it wields that influence without asking the people.
  • (17) In comments to the Venezuelan newspaper El Universal, Parolin – who is the outgoing nuncio, or papal ambassador, to the Latin American country – said that as celibacy was a "church tradition" as opposed to dogma, it could be legitimately discussed.
  • (18) I said, ‘I want to make sure you had it right that you resigned in my office’, and he said, ‘Absolutely.’” Patterson also denied that Eastside is being unfairly selective in its application of Catholic dogma by allowing divorced people and those living together out of wedlock to continue working at the school.
  • (19) All of the most cherished human dogmas - deemed so true and undeniable that dissent should be barred by the force of law - have been subsequently debunked, or at least discredited.
  • (20) Neoliberal dogma says that the private sector manages things more efficiently – often by using its magic powers of ruthlessness and cynicism.

Modernism


Definition:

  • (n.) Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (2) DATA Modern football data analysis has its origins in a video-based system that used computer vision algorithms to automatically track players.
  • (3) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
  • (4) Here is the reality of social mobility in modern Britain.
  • (5) These views are very practical for inferior synovial cavity arthrograms performed in the dental operatory since panoramic radiographic machines have become common in modern dental practices.
  • (6) Although runaway pacemaker is a rare complication in modern pacemakers, but it still exists.
  • (7) We come to see that some traditions keep us grounded, but that, in our modern world, other traditions set us back.” Female genital mutilation (FGM) affects more than 130 million girls and women around the world.
  • (8) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
  • (9) Modern art was interpreted in the catalogue as a conspiracy by Russian Bolsheviks and Jewish dealers to destroy European culture.
  • (10) It has been shown that modern premedication techniques do not prevent the activation of the sympathoadrenal system and the enhanced synthesis of cyclic nucleotides and prostaglandin-like compounds in response to preoperative stress.
  • (11) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
  • (12) Our results were consistent with the modern anesthesia standard in closed circuit t.i.
  • (13) We try to determinate, that systems theory has to be introduced into modern medicine.
  • (14) The HindIII restriction patterns of 3 of the ancestral S. enteritidis plasmids were identical to the modern 38 MDa plasmid, while all contained identical bands of 3.5, 2.7 and 1.9 kb.
  • (15) When she speaks, it is in a quiet, clear voice that is middle-class but also flat and London-inflected enough to seem almost classless: it is the voice of the modern southern English professional.
  • (16) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
  • (17) Although classifications initially paralleled the staging of pelvic malignancies, more modern systems follow the natural progression of this pathologic process.
  • (18) Audiences were disappointed that the love scenes between Taylor and Burton that had been the talk of modern Rome were not repeated with so much passion in those of ancient Rome.
  • (19) Antimicrobiologic chemotherapy is a cornerstone in the modern concept of treatment of sepsis.
  • (20) It lies in retrofitting old cities to modern demands.