chauvinism

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Her stories are well-told, relevant and often searing, detailing an elementary-school teacher’s slight, a hometown swimming-pool reckoning and chauvinism from an Ivy League club.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2026

Brie Larson produces and stars in “Lessons in Chemistry” as a scientist who, faced with the chauvinism of 1950s society, channels her passions into a TV cooking show that stirs science into her recipes.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

It's not pure chauvinism that leads the historian to prefer the local iteration above all others, claiming it's "thinner and crispier than its neighbor, farinata."

From Salon • Oct. 1, 2022

Vince recognizes some of the difficulties, noting that for her plan to succeed, humans would first have to abandon racism, chauvinism and nationalism and become citizens of the world.

From Washington Post • Sep. 9, 2022

It says something about our century, our attitude toward life, our obsession with disease and death, our human chauvinism.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas