How to Use solipsism in a Sentence

solipsism

noun

• Ms. Swicord — and Mr. Cranston, too — seem trapped in Wakefield’s solipsism.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• In the United States, meanwhile, a solipsism took root.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• There is no way of knowing, again, because of the solipsism problem.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2021
• Art both refines and connects, bridging the chasm between our solipsism and the world.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
• As is often the case when a character starts throwing around charges of solipsism, the same could be said of the movie itself.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Jan. 2020
• The parts are in place for a staggering amount of literary solipsism.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 3 Dec. 2021
• Together, the movies represented a brazen act of pop solipsism, with the raw fury of a breakup album.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• Anyway, what is solipsism in wartime but the selfishness of survival?
  — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2016
• Vampire’s Kiss is a tour de force of rabid solipsism, but even those who admire it feel the need to add an asterisk.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
• Anything less carries the risk of solipsism, and self-absorption.
  — New York Times, 18 Oct. 2021
• In this age of extreme solipsism, playing one note as a group felt like a powerful achievement.
  — Ayla Samli, Longreads, 14 May 2024
• Open City can’t be said to endorse Julius’s aesthetic solipsism.
  — Adam Kirsch, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• That novel was also stealthily about Sept. 11 — both the costs of solipsism and the limits of disaffection.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• Think about your personal devices, those technologies of solipsism that have flourished in the past two decades.
  — Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 29 June 2016
• Think about your personal devices, those technologies of solipsism that have flourished in the past two decades.
  — Daniel Mendelsohn, Town & Country, 29 June 2016
• What such critics see as a license for solipsism was in truth a call to recognize and respect the dignity of others.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• There’s a risk of high-minded solipsism in the genre of art-appreciation memoir, but Ferris is as down-to-earth as his subject.
  — Julian Lucas, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
• Not from the Hollywood world of solipsism and excess, certainly.
  — Ryan D'agostino, Esquire, 20 Aug. 2007
• Trump’s relentless solipsism can exhaust even some of his closest aides.
  — Todd S. Purdum, The Hive, 2 Feb. 2017
• For Moshfegh, pride is replaced by solipsism as the dangerous pleasure that must be overcome.
  — Anne Enright, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2020
• But the aspect of The O’Reilly Factor that always shocked me was a different kind of resentment, which took the form of the anchor’s unrepentant solipsism.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 19 Apr. 2017
• For a pop celebrity, solipsism comes as easily as breathing.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 1 June 2018
• But her new images, captured on the edge of a pandemic, also subtly upend that solipsism.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2020
• Fichte did not mean to justify solipsism or mere selfishness.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
• Even the most optimistic women give up in frustration in the face of Krystal’s overwhelming solipsism.
  — Melissa Locker, Time, 31 Jan. 2018
• No force keeps her from having both, other than her own unacknowledged solipsism.
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
• Blowing up a week of forward progress bought dearly by Georgia campaign volunteers, congressional aides and donors large and small is the height of solipsism.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 29 June 2017
• The political sphere, as has become super apparent, is a bad place for solipsism.
  — Thomas Harlander, Los Angeles Magazine, 27 June 2018
• One reader, with the username solipsism, objected to Gackle’s claims about what was and wasn’t interesting.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2019
• Doesn’t this encourage more bad feelings: solipsism, nihilism, futility?
  — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024