pseudo-event

Example Sentences

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Sixty years ago, Daniel J. Boorstin, a historian who became the Librarian of Congress, came up with a term: the "pseudo-event."

From Fox News

Sixty years ago, Daniel J. Boorstin, a historian who became the Librarian of Congress, came up with a term: the “pseudo-event.”

From Seattle Times

The "Life, Liberty & Levin" host called the impeachment inquiry a "pseudo-event in the un-reality that they created to humiliate the president."

From Fox News

It is also a charming diversion and an estimable pseudo-event—a see-now-buy-now spectacular for the society of spectacle.

From The New Yorker

Maybe it’s a cliché to say that the United States resembles an empire in decline, where formerly marginal cultural theories about the “society of the spectacle” and the rise of the “pseudo-event” are enacted in reality on a grand scale.

From Salon