How to Use solipsistic in a Sentence

solipsistic

adjective

• 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
• Such can be the overwhelming and solipsistic nature of teen-age desire.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Remember, no one hustled more than the solipsistic Dennis Rodman.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• Perhaps this crisis really has saved the West from its solipsistic pettiness and division.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Commercial ancestry companies have cashed in on our natural, if solipsistic, curiosity about these individual histories.
  — Kyle Harper, WSJ, 9 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024