totalitarian government
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
“My grandparents were murdered in concentration camps. And to see how the world, again, is swinging that direction, where there are too many people in favor of a totalitarian government, is crazy,” Eliot said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
Total Recall is a movie about a totalitarian government that’s colonized another planet so it can charge ordinary people to breathe.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2020
In a film that explores the potential dangers of how behavioral psychology could be used by a totalitarian government, Kubrick was uncharacteristically open in announcing the film’s themes he was exploring.
From Salon ● Mar. 4, 2019
But it was more than repression and fear that kept him and his totalitarian government in power for so long.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2016
Zen came from the futuristic British TV science fiction series `Blake 7', in which a bunch of underfunded rebels attempted to overthrow an evil totalitarian government.
From Underground by Suelette Dreyfus