How to Use anomie in a Sentence

anomie

noun

• Amid the anomie of the pandemic, there was hunger for any frame of reference.
  — Photographs By Ashley Gilbertson, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2020
• So what causes our halftime anomie, and can the causes be reasoned away?
  — Eric Felten, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2017
• To have seen so early in his career the anomie at the heart of boredom, stasis, inertia—what a gift that was.
  — Vivian Gornick, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• The future that these years of atrophy and anomie and enmity teased at arrived all at once.
  — David Roth, The New Republic, 11 June 2020
• This doesn’t accord with the stereotype of the Lost Generation, its members drinking away their anomie in Parisian cafés.
  — Deborah Cohen, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2022
• His tough-yet-sensitive image feels substantive, and not just a kind of bland, Post Malone-like anomie.
  — Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2022
• The public realm, charged with the impossible task of catering to both, falls into neglect, mistrust and anomie.
  — Momus, WIRED, 3 Jan. 2006
• Crew members were felled with intestinal ailments, and Gray had fallen into a dazed anomie.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
• Crystal meth is in some ways a metaphor for our times—times of anomie and isolation, of paranoia and delusion, of communities coming apart.
  — Sam Quinones, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2021
• But when introduced in the midst of currency crises and in countries that suffer from weak institutions and endemic anomie, such systems have a poor record.
  — Jacques De Larosière and Steve H. Hanke, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021
• Though the cast changed every two seasons, Skins still circled teenage anomie, unexpected pregnancy, and excessive drug use like a myopic moth to a flame.
  — Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2022
• Pottersville, not Bailey Park, resembles the modern anomie that Deneen decries.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 25 Dec. 2020
• Brian Alexander’s recent account of a hospital in Bryan, a small town in Ohio’s northeast corner, offers a glimpse into how destructive anomie can be.
  — David Introcaso, STAT, 30 Dec. 2021
• Some observers are tempted to put it down to a pathology in which the combination of post-Brexit psychosis and post-pandemic anomie has sapped all reason and purpose from those who govern.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 24 Oct. 2022
• Cody distributes them awkwardly among the members of a strained family, painting a tableau of white suburban anomie that feints at depth but, throughout the show’s two and a half hours, is always threatening to dissolve.
  — The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• Andrew Upton’s adaptation of an early Anton Chekhov play about provincial anomie winds down its Broadway run.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
• In their parallel stories, the Black intellectual’s crisis of faith meets the guilty anomie of the American expatriate.
  — The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• In recent years, sound baths have made waves in meditation and therapeutic circles as antidotes to stress, depression, anomie, and more.
  — Jennifer Emerling, National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2019
• First, the subjects of deepest dread (corruption, decay, pollution, anomie, weakness) are identified with the disease.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2020
• But Mizumura expands her tale into an ambitious portrait of middle-class anomie in a Japan still reckoning with its past and the paradoxes of its identity.
  — New York Times, 16 June 2017
• The film turns on warring halves, a presumptive beta (Edward Norton) and his alpha twin (Pitt), who confront consumerism, postmodern anomie and that cult known as masculinity.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2020
• The culture gets bored when the talk turns to spiritual impoverishment, fraying familial bonds, anomie.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 14 June 2019
• Writers, working in a vein that grew from American anomie, steadily chronicled the misfortunes of a population of women and men now genuinely adrift.
  — Vivian Gornick, The New York Review of Books, 9 Mar. 2021
• Obviously the stories about the anomie of slave family life are correct, as ethnic cohesion and family integrity were rapidly destroyed in the New World.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2011
• To young people afflicted by social media anomie and fearful of climate doom, Mr. Kaczynski seemed to wield a predictive power that outstripped the evidence available to him.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• But when introduced during currency crises in countries that suffer from weak institutions and endemic anomie, such systems have a poor record.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Sep. 2021
• The concern of the Committee for Economic Development was to prevent the economy from regressing to the levels of unemployment, weak productivity, and social anomie that characterized the 1930s.
  — Thomas S. Hibbs, National Review, 31 Aug. 2017
• Typically, it’s associated with worker anomie, or ennui, or burnout.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
• Progressives argue that middle-class anomie is located in economics, the class stagnation since industrial America started closing down in the 1970s, but that seems insufficient.
  — Joe Klein, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
• Drnaso’s simple, rigid drawings capture the bleak blankness of much contemporary life, anomie hovering over almost every interaction, both real and virtual.
  — Kathleen Rooney, chicagotribune.com, 10 May 2018

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024