10 examples of athleticism in sentences

If empire had amused him as athleticism did there would have been no equal in all history to Commodus.

Referring to the athleticism to which so much attention is paid just now in English and American universities, he points out how erroneous it is to identify muscular strength with constitutional strength.

His schools are places for vigorous education instead of genteel athleticism, and his home has books in it, and thought and conversation.

Murders and crimes are worked up to the keenest pitch of realisation, and any new indelicacy in fashionable costume, any new medical device or cure, any new dance or athleticism, any new breach in the moral code, any novelty in sea bathing or the woman's seat on horseback, or the like, is given copious and moving illustration, stirring headlines, and eloquent reprobation.

The difficulty is therefore that the actual raising of the standard of athletics has probably been bad for national athleticism.

In the Waterloo period there was a general rough-and-tumble athleticism among average Englishmen.

At our great public schools the craze for athleticism is justified on the ground that, even at the expense of the things of the mind, it does at least keep the boys from moral evil.

It may quite well be because the insistence on athleticism, which has been elevated into a cult, in our public schools, has supplied a real and absorbing interest for the one, but has merely used the physical capacity of the other without touching his mind or his spirit at all.

Athleticism in England is an asceticism, as much as the monastic rules.

Men have over-strained themselves and killed themselves through English athleticism.

10 examples of  athleticism  in sentences