Quiet Revolution

noun

1. (in Canada) a period during the 1960s in Quebec, marked by secularization, educational reforms, and rising support for separation from the rest of Canada French nameRévolution tranquille

Example Sentences

Over the last century, Vought said, the U.S. has “experienced nothing short of a quiet revolution” and abandoned what he saw as the true meaning and force of the Constitution.

From Salon

In his view, the Democratic Party’s agenda and its “quiet revolution” could be stopped only by a “radical constitutionalist,” someone in the mold of Thomas Jefferson or James Madison.

From Salon

Its website boasts of starting a “quiet revolution in the Israel Defense Forces.”

From Los Angeles Times

The reason: a quiet revolution that is making cancer drugs more affordable.

From BBC

Meteorologists call it the “quiet revolution”: a gradual but steady improvement in weather forecasting.

From Science Magazine