Example sentences for: ethos

How can you use “ethos” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There is an ethos of letting the chips fall where they may about the sending out of galleys: Now the book will begin to receive uncontrolled reaction.

  • The hockey ethos is to be elaborately casual and gruff about competitive achievement: Outstanding performance gets you a little slap on the helmet, a good-natured insult.

  • The real legacy of the Woodstock era, Frank believes, was an all-embracing ethos of "hip capitalism" that holds us in its paisley thrall to this day.

  • He then accused Brent and Yale of having "caved" in to the ethos of "historical correctness" governed by "revisionists who dismiss as cold war humbug the notion that the Soviet Union was a totalitarian country."

  • The art critic Lucy Lippard discerned a different impetus in these buoyant pictures, labeling the peanut shaped forms as "testicular"--a sign, Storr adds, of "the 'ballsy' ethos of [Smith's] generation of male artists."


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