Gestalt

Example Sentences

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And yet what’s surprising is how ethereally effective Birney’s DIY gestalt is as a reverse state of consciousness: an outside where before there was only inside.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2026

The guides, it said, reflect “the whole gestalt of India’s association with sky and space.”

From Science Magazine • Nov. 7, 2023

"Almost no individual element of this was original—beans and greens have been the stuff of dinner since beans and greens began—and yet the gestalt had something to it, something unexpectedly right."

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2023

For Gen X, whose gestalt is built around an aura of disaffected youth, aging may feel unnatural, Pamela Paul says.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2022

It was the creation of the gestalt Bobby needed to prove to himself that he was capable of dominance.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady