Gestalt

Example Sentences

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He defended the coalition, saying, "I think they got the gestalt of it correct."

From Salon

When the film doesn’t fit with NASA’s gestalt, filmmakers can’t use the agency’s logo.

From Washington Post

Watching it decades later, it’s a perfect gestalt of memorable dialog, alluring conspiracism, kinetic camera work, and stylish violence.

From The Verge

And in contrast to the evidence underpinning the medical criteria, these metrics were more subjective, influenced by what Dr. Pavlakis described to me as “gestalt and some anecdotes.”

From New York Times

The writer Lindy West, for example, has studied photos of fat women in the hope of “coaxing a gestalt shift from revulsion to admiration.”

From Washington Post