Weltanschauung

Example Sentences

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Weltanschauung refers to an apprehension, usually one stemming from a specific standpoint.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021

Post-sensitive is not a bad description of Zink’s Weltanschauung.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2019

Today, some of the best photos in Us Weekly come from Instagram, one of the many descendants of the “Just Like Us” Weltanschauung.

From Slate • Sep. 22, 2016

This season’s Oscar favorites “The Revenant” and “Mad Max: Fury Road” seem to fall into the élite brospeak Weltanschauung, tracing impossible physical trials for revenge and a supposed moral order.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 3, 2016

All words that were coined in the olden time to express thoughts of the practical Weltanschauung have an archaic tang.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various