Weltanschauung

Example Sentences

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And no matter how autobiographical they may seem to be, Munch’s Weltanschauung embraces all mankind.

From The Guardian

We tried to find common ground, and we all got out of the conversation unscathed, but it was a microcosm of the polarization Americans have come to expect out of our country’s new political Weltanschauung.

From Seattle Times

But any excitement generated was crushed under the general Weltanschauung.

From New York Times

This season’s Oscar favorites “The Revenant” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” seem to fall into the élite brospeak Weltanschauung, tracing impossible physical trials for revenge and a supposed moral order.

From The New Yorker

About the waves, Mr. Finnegan tells us, “I realized I was seeing long German words in Gothic script, Arbeiterpartei and Oberkommando and Weltanschauung and Götterdämmerung, marching incongruously across the warm gray walls.”

From New York Times