How to Use gestalt in a Sentence

gestalt

noun

• The overall gestalt of the approach is that a spy is being placed in the midst of the firm.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
• Its gestalt can be summed up like this: Global warming is bad for the world.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2013
• For some, the gestalt of pandan goes even further back than childhood.
  — Samuel Anderson, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2022
• When the film doesn’t fit with NASA’s gestalt, filmmakers can’t use the agency’s logo.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2022
• There’s a science to the art of this particular fakery, the way the brain builds a gestalt world around selected details.
  — Boris Kachka, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• So in the gestalt, his films leave compositional rather than human stains on the finished print.
  — Stella Ko, CNN, 29 May 2017
• While the Adidas logo is nothing more than a shape to a monkey, for us brands have become a nuanced social gestalt.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
• But the different themes, the gestalt of the music, the sonic fabric, and the instruments, are determined prior.
  — Sonya Alexander, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2023
• The gestalt of Latest Music Project, Volume 1 is to sing against the global push toward socialism.
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 May 2021
• Being able to alter your route on the fly while still maintaining a pleasing gestalt will do wonders for your riding life.
  — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2018
• That quick, heady gestalt, that immediate rush, is formal.
  — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2017
• Even so, his comments about the possible positive impacts of climate change neatly summed up the gestalt of the conference.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2013
• Instead, the directors deliver the gestalt of the Chelsea, the overall sensation conveyed by the building, its past and its scaffolded present.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2022
• My overall gestalt impression is that the two assistants are pretty evenly matched.
  — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 18 May 2017
• There’s an irresistible allure to these tales, and even someone who never tore off a layer of skin on the Alpine Slide or fished a drunken lug out of the water can shake his head and smile at the those-were-the-days gestalt of Action Park.
  — Jack McCallum, SI.com, 1 July 2019
• Central to this car’s gestalt is the high level of regenerative braking effect.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
• In that sense, the performance affirmed Andover's original gestalt.
  — Richard McGill Murphy, Town & Country, 7 July 2015
• These run as distinctive currents throughout and lend to an overall gestalt as satisfying as a fine musical album that leaves thrum and echo in its wake.
  — oregonlive, 6 Apr. 2022
• Some ores have a singular taste and smell, their presence pulses in the ambient air and can be pinned down in the word geologists often use: its facies, the gestalt of complex rock formations.
  — Paul Theroux, Harper's Magazine, 11 Aug. 2022
• It’s an eerie gestalt, a foreboding feeling of unbookiness.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2021
• My gestalt is that the window of intervention for a direct antiviral is extremely narrow.
  — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 19 Apr. 2021
• That gestalt could be felt throughout SXSW during its opening weekend, when both the film and interactive conferences got underway.
  — Ann Hornaday, The Denver Post, 21 Mar. 2017
• One woman is sure that the new management will bring new occupants and a new overall attitude, but another argues that the Chelsea’s bohemian excess is baked into its gestalt.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2022
• Like the first season, there’s a midseason flashback episode that becomes the gestalt for all the big resolution gestures, and all of it is rooted in character work rather than too-visible external plot devices.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 7 May 2021
• Social media is a gestalt of motivating voices, from friends and family to competitors and influencers, ads and organic posts alike.
  — Elissa Baker, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• America’s thorny gestalt of the individual thrown against the backdrop of systemic inequality.
  — Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• Rather than laying out a factoid chronology, Lusztig, with strong, clear-eyed work by Frantzen, captures Richland’s gestalt, interweaving a potent selection of new interviews, archival footage, music and song.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2023
• Ideally, thoughtful people will ponder the opinion and be informed by it, incorporating the information into the gestalt of their personal world view.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2019
• That doesn't happen on older iPhones, and more importantly, goes against Apple's privacy policy and general gestalt.
  — Wired, 7 Dec. 2019
• Both sandwiches stick the landing on the most important element of a fast-food sandwich: the fusion of its distinct components into an ineffable, irresistible gestalt.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2019

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