How to Use gestalt in a Sentence

gestalt

noun
  • The idea of self-creation feels central to the record’s gestalt.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
  • The right brain sees in wholes (the gestalt), whereas the left brain loves systems.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
  • The right brain sees in wholes (the gestalt), whereas the left brain loves systems.
    — Christian Wiman, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • For some, the gestalt of pandan goes even further back than childhood.
    — Samuel Anderson, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2022
  • That paradox is central to Swift’s gestalt.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The overall gestalt of the approach is that a spy is being placed in the midst of the firm.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The mind effortlessly creates a gestalt, a whole that is more than the sum of its parts.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Pizza is the defining food of our country, the key to the American gestalt.
    — Tamar Adler, Vogue, 25 July 2024
  • So in the gestalt, his films leave compositional rather than human stains on the finished print.
    — Stella Ko, CNN, 29 May 2017
  • Anti-modernism is thus the basic gestalt of Catholicism in the modern era.
    — R. R. Reno, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2018
  • Being able to alter your route on the fly while still maintaining a pleasing gestalt will do wonders for your riding life.
    — Eben Weiss, Outside Online, 4 Apr. 2018
  • My overall gestalt impression is that the two assistants are pretty evenly matched.
    — Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 18 May 2017
  • While the Adidas logo is nothing more than a shape to a monkey, for us brands have become a nuanced social gestalt.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Central to this car’s gestalt is the high level of regenerative braking effect.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • When the film doesn’t fit with NASA’s gestalt, filmmakers can’t use the agency’s logo.
    — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2022
  • Even so, his comments about the possible positive impacts of climate change neatly summed up the gestalt of the conference.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2013
  • In that sense, the performance affirmed Andover's original gestalt.
    — Richard McGill Murphy, Town & Country, 7 July 2015
  • My gestalt is that the window of intervention for a direct antiviral is extremely narrow.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 19 Apr. 2021
  • But the different themes, the gestalt of the music, the sonic fabric, and the instruments, are determined prior.
    — Sonya Alexander, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2023
  • These run as distinctive currents throughout and lend to an overall gestalt as satisfying as a fine musical album that leaves thrum and echo in its wake.
    — oregonlive, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The Chair Company coheres into a gestalt, a whole that’s somehow greater than the sum of its absurdities.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The man’s gestalt was designed for accompaniment on harmonica.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • This achievement can only be the product of an obsessive, near-philosophical approach to the sandwich as a composition, to the gestalt of the bite.
    — Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026
  • These recipes center the season’s finest ingredients, using techniques and sauces to complement — not overwhelm — their pristine gestalt.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The gestalt of Latest Music Project, Volume 1 is to sing against the global push toward socialism.
    — Armond White, National Review, 19 May 2021
  • Instead, the directors deliver the gestalt of the Chelsea, the overall sensation conveyed by the building, its past and its scaffolded present.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Social media is a gestalt of motivating voices, from friends and family to competitors and influencers, ads and organic posts alike.
    — Elissa Baker, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • America’s thorny gestalt of the individual thrown against the backdrop of systemic inequality.
    — Lisa Kennedy, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
  • One woman is sure that the new management will bring new occupants and a new overall attitude, but another argues that the Chelsea’s bohemian excess is baked into its gestalt.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Feb. 2022
  • Ideally, thoughtful people will ponder the opinion and be informed by it, incorporating the information into the gestalt of their personal world view.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2019

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