How to Use solipsistic in a Sentence

solipsistic

adjective

• But he’s been shaken out of his solipsistic reverie.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
• Such can be the overwhelming and solipsistic nature of teen-age desire.
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022
• But as ‘Bardo’ stretches on and on and on, the film narrows into something solipsistic and meta.
  — Mark Olsenstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2022
• Such moments—subjective but hardly solipsistic—are few and far between.
  — Victor J. Blue, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025
• Such moments—subjective but hardly solipsistic—are few and far between.
  — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
• Helm is nothing if not solipsistic, narcissistic even.
  — Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
• Then again, there's something increasingly solipsistic about the show leaning on former cast members to host.
  — Andy Hoglund, EW.com, 15 Oct. 2023
• Tems, in particular, got foregrounded by the video cameras, as the show took a more communal, less solipsistic turn.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2026
• Remember, no one hustled more than the solipsistic Dennis Rodman.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2022
• The present tense is one of the great afflictions of young-adult books, mimicking the solipsistic immediacy of adolescence.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
• Needless to say, this particular motive is not mentioned in Biden’s solipsistic and self-pitying statement.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
• Perhaps this crisis really has saved the West from its solipsistic pettiness and division.
  — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2022
• Privileged, petty, and most of all solipsistic, they are united by callous self-absorption more than they are divided by any specific traits.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Dec. 2021
• In fact, that country’s name has become shorthand for a certain solipsistic dread in American popular culture.
  — Paul A. Thompson, Pitchfork, 17 Apr. 2025
• The algae is a perfect metaphor to reflect on our unreflective president and his impulsive and solipsistic style of governing.
  — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 23 June 2026
• As with the works of that solipsistic filmmaker, plot is not a major element of Situations, the title of which proves accurate.
  — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2025
• The American academy has been far more used to a confessionalistic, even solipsistic style in its lyric poetry.
  — Elaine L. Wang september 11, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
• Diamond comes across as so solipsistic that when the inevitable breakthrough occurs late in the proceedings between him and his doctor, there’s no attendant epiphany for the audience.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• The orientation of this investigation is strangely solipsistic, a fact captured by the surgery that Packer has performed on the line that gives the book its title.
  — Aaron Timms, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2021
• Maybe this isn’t always negative; commercial pressure can work as a valuable creative restraint, forcing writers out of solipsistic indulgences.
  — Sarah Menkedick, Longreads, 17 Jan. 2020
• Even at its most introspective, introverted or solipsistic, this music has always been a response to the tumultuous everything-else that exists outside our heads.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
• So Kirsch has not sought to make some grand autobiographical introduction, a bold and solipsistic announcement of his artistic worldview.
  — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026
• Still, his presence in this solipsistic novel destabilizes the division of self and world, emphasizing the way an individual consciousness is always made up of the traces left by others.
  — Nathan Goldman, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
• Whatever criticism the genial Shammas had until then withheld is here let loose, with a stroke of satiric brilliance, in the figure of the solipsistic Bar-On.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Times, in Naureckas’s portrayal, found Silver’s empiricism a threat to its own -- and journalism’s own -- solipsistic worldview.
  — George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 29 July 2013
• But the soul—no matter how well concealed in Waugh’s secular and solipsistic characters—can make any situation bearable by imbuing suffering with meaning.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2021
• This assessment dovetails with a common criticism of autobiographical fiction, which holds that such work is inherently solipsistic.
  — Tope Folarin, The Atlantic, 29 Feb. 2024
• Irene is how playwright Thomas Bradshaw re-christens Irina Arkadina, the star whose solipsistic iron will keeps a famous writer in her bed and her son in emotional paralysis.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2023
• The guitar, like golf, invites solipsistic dissolution masquerading as self-actualization.
  — Nick Paumgarten, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
• The model and actor’s new book of essays is a fascinatingly solipsistic portrait of the tension between empowerment and objectification.
  — The Editors, The Atlantic, 10 May 2022