zeitgeist
Example Sentences
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“Sinners” was one of the few zeitgeist defining movies of recent years in part because millions of us saw it together, in theaters, in the span of a few weeks.
Sheridan Clayborne, a young man working in the AI-startup scene, seemed to embody the current zeitgeist when he was quoted this past fall in the San Francisco Standard.
Sometimes the best “SNL” sketch isn’t just the funniest, but the one that is perfectly timed, with exactly the right host for just the moment in the zeitgeist for it to hit the hardest.
From Los Angeles Times
The movie, which features a truly head-spinning plot about an IDF soldier moving to America to become a hairstylist and uniting his local Palestinian and Israeli population in the process, received dismal reviews and thankfully faded from the zeitgeist.
From Salon
“All of these developments reflect years of work behind the scenes, but they are hitting the public zeitgeist now,” Federer said.
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
