Example sentences for: zeitgeist

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

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

  • Instead, Madame Secretary proves to be down with the Zeitgeist, providing the latest evidence of the plummeting public image of the film's writer-director, Jim Cameron.

  • Reviewers say director Peter Weir's comedy about Orwellian mind control and entertainment-age pop culture "nails the Zeitgeist " (Jay Carr, the Boston Globe ). Dissenters declare The Truman Show overhyped considering its clunky plot and simple-minded message, which boils down to "[E]ither you are a grotesque victim of the moguls or an unmitigated rebel" (Edward Rothstein, the New York Times ). (Click here for the official site and here for David Edestein's review in Slate .)

  • He's a national Rorschach test: America periodically concocts a new Sinatra to fit the Zeitgeist .

  • Under “A,” for example, the lexicographers provide entries for Adam, Ad feminam, ageism, “Ain't I a Woman” (Sojourner Truth's speech), and amniocentesis . “Z” is limited to three entries: Zamani Soweto sisters, Zeitgeist (`Spirit of liberty, equality, and sorority'), and Zugassent (a term for male continence as practised by the Oneida utopian community).


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