What is "triumphalist"

Usage examples of "triumphalist".

We tell our own history in triumphalist terms, as a steady pushing back of the frontiers of ignorance and darkness, as an account of inevitable progress, the sort that modern historians dismiss as Whiggish.

The sweep of white marble, the gleaming inlay of gold, and then above on all the ceilings were the panels of paintings, great sweeping paintings in a triumphalist style, protected by great magic from the ravages of time and thus still as fresh and bright and lively as the day they were completed, in the long-ago reign of Emperor Chalx the Great.

Gradually even the religions had come on board, and a decades-long tide of conflict spawned out of aggressive and triumphalist tendencies in all the major faiths had begun to turn.

My heart performs more antics, but I allow no triumphalist note to enter my voice.

Stalin had wanted a triumphalist piece, to celebrate the growing tide of Soviet victory over the Nazis.

Orange Riots rocked New York City as Protestants staged triumphalist marches through Catholic neighborhoods.

LET THE FITTEST SURVIVE T-shirts covered some of the finest chests in the city, becoming a triumphalist slogan for the gym generation that acquired mass public currency overnight.

Several triumphalist lightning bolts were emitted near the head of the column, then it sank away into the floor like a solid thing, taking the magician with it.