Example sentences for: zeitgeist

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

  • Movie reviewers echo the music critics' pans of the popular Spice Girls and conclude that "sometimes the Zeitgeist counts for squat" (David Kronke, the Los Angeles Times ). The group's feature film, in which they're harassed by a tabloid reporter, is trashed as a "plotless, pointless, mirthless" knock-off of the Beatles' Hard Day's Night (Richard Harrington, the Washington Post ). The pop stars do get credit for exhibiting self-deprecating humor and apparent awareness that "they have achieved ludicrous measures of fame and fortune on the strength of markedly limited talents" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ). (Clips are available.)

  • Marketers will do anything that seems to promise a momentary fit with the elusive Zeitgeist , or at least a surge of attention.

  • Newspaper profits may be at record highs, but the newspaper Zeitgeist is gloomy.

  • If you missed the discussion of Moyers' self-righteousness, click . If you missed the discussion of Moyers' gift for Zeitgeist , click .

  • One even hopes they are insincere, an attempt by Anderson to stay in step with the Zeitgeist of the '90s and the Promise Keepers.


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