How to Use syncretic in a Sentence

syncretic

adjective

• Día de los Muertos is one of the great syncretic festivals of Latin America.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
• But the new syncretic fusion of Judaism and Christianity makes no sense.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 13 June 2018
• Their homes — made of mud brick and stucco, with walls now jagged or altogether missing — stand as monuments to the Draa’s rich, syncretic past and to the enthralling boundlessness of its present.
  — Michael Snyder, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• Here was the syncretic style of old Hong Kong refined for an international audience.
  — Liam Fitzpatrick / Hong Kong, Time, 30 Aug. 2017
• The film ends in a joyful, syncretic reunion—the Nehruvian nation transposed onto the family in the clearest possible fashion.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• The book is an effortful reference for how New York morphed from a syncretic collection of diasporas into a bland sovereignty of the mega-rich.
  — Amy Rose Spiegel, New Republic, 27 July 2017
• The exhibition ends with a remarkable example of the syncretic character of the classical world: a bust of a Greek version of an Egyptian god (Serapis), made for the far reaches of the Roman empire.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2018
• Although Pastor John’s stories and songs seem strange or syncretic, the community of Soulsville responds with enthusiasm.
  — David Wallace, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• Once over his bewilderment, though, Dylan soon surpasses most historians in quickly building a syncretic sense of the whole.
  — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 19 June 2021
• The video is a stunning visual ode to Black Dominican culture that includes footage of syncretic religious customs, hair braiding sessions, and cleansing ceremonies.
  — Pitchfork, 13 Dec. 2023
• Solo Cissokho—another customer of the monastery’s workshop—began a series of collaborations with folk musicians in Norway and Lithuania, echoing the syncretic spirit of the monks.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• Action Sharing is an ideas competition for artistic projects that make syncretic use of mechatronic elements.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 28 Oct. 2010
• Nance’s photography reveals a common thread between these faiths—which emerged from the dizzying clash of African, European, and American cultures—and the festival’s equally syncretic enactment of pan-African unity.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2022
• At once heartbreaking and unapologetically strange, this is a cross-cultural, syncretic, folksy, razor-sharp narrative about the horrors of grief and the eternal debate over nature versus nurture.
  — Gabino Iglesias, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Taiwanese often credit this to their country's syncretic mix of cultural influences, from indigenous groups, to Dutch and Japanese colonizers, to folk practices carried across the Taiwan Strait.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 24 May 2017
• The galleries devoted to religious work beg for a survey of syncretic spiritual imagery and the fluid lines between Christian and African religious representation.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022
• The plot is similarly syncretic, a mélange of updated folklore, contemporary eco-spiritualism and tried-and-true Disney-Pixar formula.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2016
• Voodoo refers to syncretic religious practices developed by Caribbean slaves who took spiritual traditions from their native Africa and merged them with elements of Christianity and other faiths.
  — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 12 Feb. 2018
• Despite the protestations of those who felt that the party exploited the spiritual seriousness of Catholic art, the Met’s carpeted steps played host to a syncretic display of contemporary religious visuality.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 8 May 2018
• Nearby, other larger-than-life-size women feature equally luxuriant tresses, teeming with syncretic mixtures of colorful birds, fireworks, henna designs, snakes, chains, panthers, clenched fists and figures with batons.
  — Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
• Manfred Eicher, who founded ECM and remains its sole proprietor, has forged a syncretic vision in which jazz and classical traditions intelligently intermingle.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2019
• Indonesia, the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country, has a constitution that recognizes other major religions, and practices a syncretic form of Islam that draws on not just the faith’s tenets but local spiritual and cultural traditions.
  — Marco Stahlhut, Time, 19 Aug. 2017
• Drawing on Native American, Buddhist and mindfulness traditions, her syncretic spiritual practice is fundamental to her work.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
• Possessed of a daringly syncretic musical intelligence, Rosalía has inhaled flamenco.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024