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Definition of dead white European male in English: dead white European male(also dead white male) noun informal A writer, philosopher, or other significant figure whose importance and talents may have been exaggerated by virtue of his belonging to a historically dominant gender and ethnic group. 〈非正式，主美〉死欧洲白种大男人（指那些作家、哲学家和要人，他们的重要性和天才由于当时历史上占支配地位的性别和种族的原因而被夸大） fanatics of political correctness may dismiss Shakespeare as a dead white European male Example sentencesExamples - ‘HRW's disregard for Christian suffering springs from a secular mindset,’ Mr. Marshall explains, ‘a mindset that assumes Christianity is the religion of dead white European males.’
- Who wants to study dead white males who do nothing but shore up the status quo, who teach us we're living in the greatest country in the world-no, the greatest country in the history of the world?
- How, in so up-to-date an age as our own, could some very dead white males manage to be so… popular?
- In his spare time, Mr. McClelland enjoys reading the works of dead white European males, smoking cigarettes, and plotting revenge.
- Be careful about criticizing one of my all-time favorite dead white male authors.
- Now, I am not much impressed by some of the more extreme feminist arguments about dead white European males, but I do have to admit that all this hierarchy malarkey has a distinctly masculine feel to it.
- Gioia says his program is a ‘win-win’ approach to the arts, to which Rockwell protests: ‘But what happened to multicultural disdain for dead white European males?’
- Defending the special status of high culture became deeply unfashionable, and the notion of universal cultural excellence was seen to be nothing more than a relative judgement made by an elite of dead white males.
- Even before he dwindled into the status of dead white European male, he was seen as a fussy writer of nineteenth-century social problem plays, whose very problems seemed old fashioned.
- Anthony Hopkins plays brilliant classics professor Coleman Silk, uncompromisingly laying down the law about dead white males of the distant Hellenic past to his slouching, Sony-headphone-wearing scholars.
- The believers in the mainstream - dead white males, all - refuse to accept that the ‘good old days’ when New Zealand culture was defined by white, middle aged, straight farmers, are gone.
- Isn't it time to end the neo-colonisation of Africa by failed economic theories of dead white males like Marx?
- High culture was dismissed as the work of dead white males.
- Thinking, you see, was invented by dead white males and is therefore evil.
- One function for precursors is to give legitimacy to the views of the modern scientist and deflect criticism to dead white males.
- Today's ‘multiculturalists’ tell us that young Americans of Hispanic, African, and Asian descent could not possibly relate to dead white European males like Washington and Lincoln.
- ‘At your kids' back-to-school night, you are shocked to discover the only dead white male on your tenth-grader's reading list is Oscar Wilde.’
- The mere fact that more than two centuries ago some dead white males concocted a system as cumbersome as the Electoral College does not mean that we should follow it today.
- Well, for starters, replacing a black woman with a white man fits with this administration's doctrine: better to get a white male to preside over a dead white males' view of history.
- Unimpressed by all sides of the canon wars, in an essay called ‘Canon to the Right of Me…’ the author went so far as to defend even the dead white males of the conservatives - meaning Homer, Shakespeare, etc.
Definition of dead white European male in US English: dead white European male(also dead white male) noundɛd (h)waɪt ˈˌjərəˈˌpiən informal A writer, philosopher, or other significant figure whose importance and talents may have been exaggerated by virtue of his belonging to a historically dominant gender and ethnic group. 〈非正式，主美〉死欧洲白种大男人（指那些作家、哲学家和要人，他们的重要性和天才由于当时历史上占支配地位的性别和种族的原因而被夸大） fanatics of political correctness may dismiss Shakespeare as a dead white European male Example sentencesExamples - Who wants to study dead white males who do nothing but shore up the status quo, who teach us we're living in the greatest country in the world-no, the greatest country in the history of the world?
- How, in so up-to-date an age as our own, could some very dead white males manage to be so… popular?
- ‘At your kids' back-to-school night, you are shocked to discover the only dead white male on your tenth-grader's reading list is Oscar Wilde.’
- Isn't it time to end the neo-colonisation of Africa by failed economic theories of dead white males like Marx?
- Gioia says his program is a ‘win-win’ approach to the arts, to which Rockwell protests: ‘But what happened to multicultural disdain for dead white European males?’
- Anthony Hopkins plays brilliant classics professor Coleman Silk, uncompromisingly laying down the law about dead white males of the distant Hellenic past to his slouching, Sony-headphone-wearing scholars.
- Well, for starters, replacing a black woman with a white man fits with this administration's doctrine: better to get a white male to preside over a dead white males' view of history.
- Thinking, you see, was invented by dead white males and is therefore evil.
- One function for precursors is to give legitimacy to the views of the modern scientist and deflect criticism to dead white males.
- Defending the special status of high culture became deeply unfashionable, and the notion of universal cultural excellence was seen to be nothing more than a relative judgement made by an elite of dead white males.
- In his spare time, Mr. McClelland enjoys reading the works of dead white European males, smoking cigarettes, and plotting revenge.
- Unimpressed by all sides of the canon wars, in an essay called ‘Canon to the Right of Me…’ the author went so far as to defend even the dead white males of the conservatives - meaning Homer, Shakespeare, etc.
- Even before he dwindled into the status of dead white European male, he was seen as a fussy writer of nineteenth-century social problem plays, whose very problems seemed old fashioned.
- The believers in the mainstream - dead white males, all - refuse to accept that the ‘good old days’ when New Zealand culture was defined by white, middle aged, straight farmers, are gone.
- Today's ‘multiculturalists’ tell us that young Americans of Hispanic, African, and Asian descent could not possibly relate to dead white European males like Washington and Lincoln.
- High culture was dismissed as the work of dead white males.
- The mere fact that more than two centuries ago some dead white males concocted a system as cumbersome as the Electoral College does not mean that we should follow it today.
- ‘HRW's disregard for Christian suffering springs from a secular mindset,’ Mr. Marshall explains, ‘a mindset that assumes Christianity is the religion of dead white European males.’
- Now, I am not much impressed by some of the more extreme feminist arguments about dead white European males, but I do have to admit that all this hierarchy malarkey has a distinctly masculine feel to it.
- Be careful about criticizing one of my all-time favorite dead white male authors.
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