How to Use solipsistic in a Sentence
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But as ‘Bardo’ stretches on and on and on, the film narrows into something solipsistic and meta.
—Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
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Such can be the overwhelming and solipsistic nature of teen-age desire.
—Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
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This guilt points to the way memoir, as a genre, is often regarded: as solipsistic unburdening on the part of the writer, and as naked voyeurism on the part of the reader.
—Christina McCausland, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2022
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Whatever criticism the genial Shammas had until then withheld is here let loose, with a stroke of satiric brilliance, in the figure of the solipsistic Bar-On.
—Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
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The present tense is one of the great afflictions of young-adult books, mimicking the solipsistic immediacy of adolescence.
—Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
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The orientation of this investigation is strangely solipsistic, a fact captured by the surgery that Packer has performed on the line that gives the book its title.
—Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
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The Times, in Naureckas’s portrayal, found Silver’s empiricism a threat to its own -- and journalism’s own -- solipsistic worldview.
—George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2013
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Remember, no one hustled more than the solipsistic Dennis Rodman.
—Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
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Diamond comes across as so solipsistic that when the inevitable breakthrough occurs late in the proceedings between him and his doctor, there’s no attendant epiphany for the audience.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
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Irene is how playwright Thomas Bradshaw re-christens Irina Arkadina, the star whose solipsistic iron will keeps a famous writer in her bed and her son in emotional paralysis.
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
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Perhaps this crisis really has saved the West from its solipsistic pettiness and division.
—Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
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Privileged, petty, and most of all solipsistic, they are united by callous self-absorption more than they are divided by any specific traits.
—Alex Bhattacharji, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2021
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Still, his presence in this solipsistic novel destabilizes the division of self and world, emphasizing the way an individual consciousness is always made up of the traces left by others.
—Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
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Barack Obama, perhaps the nation’s most solipsistic politician and ideologue, took only moments after the issuance of Justice Samuel Alito’s ...
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 25 June 2022
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But the soul—no matter how well concealed in Waugh’s secular and solipsistic characters—can make any situation bearable by imbuing suffering with meaning.
—Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
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Maybe this isn’t always negative; commercial pressure can work as a valuable creative restraint, forcing writers out of solipsistic indulgences.
—Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
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As the paranoid Lise grows convinced that her husband is plotting to induce her to commit suicide, the voices ratchet up, accusing her of various offenses: of being an inattentive wife, an inconstant mother, a solipsistic writer.
—New York Times, 26 Jan. 2021
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The model and actor’s new book of essays is a fascinatingly solipsistic portrait of the tension between empowerment and objectification.
—The Editors, The Atlantic, 10 May 2022
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