Use These Three Words In A Sentence

By Michael Musto Fri., Jun. 24 2011 at 1:20 PM

There are three trendy-shmendy, foreign-sounding words that are always bandied about in liberal journals, so let's put them together in a way that makes sense and in fact helps illuminate current events.

Think of it as an intellectual challenge, the reward being your own surprising cogency under immense pressure.

The words are:

hubris

schadenfreude

and zeitgeist.

Here's my own sample sentence:

If Anthony Weiner had checked out the zeitgeist instead of acting with such incredible hubris, he wouldn't have become the poster child for schadenfreude.

Can you top that?

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labann

Had the hubris to write "Bike&Chain: The Ultimate Guide to Bicycling Culture", 1,000 pages of new literary art on hot cycling zeitgeist, guaranteed to cause schadenfreude among sado-masochistic readers, published free, on-line along with my on-going blog at...http://bike-n-chain.blogspot.c...

Anyway books today are mostly opinion, scrabble tiles, and spin. Readers are accustomed to lies. Truths are unmarketable.

labann

I had the hubris to write "Bike&Chain: The Ultimate Guide to Bicycling Culture", 1,000 pages of unique literary art on contemporary cycling zeitgeist guaranteed to pique someone's schadenfreude except narcissists and timid souls. It's free on-line along with my on-going blog...http://bike-n-chain.blogspot.c...Literature is mostly opinion, scrabble tiles, and spin anyway. Truth is unmarketable.

chandler_in_lasvegas

The zeitgeist that gays are only different from straights ever so slightly iscompounded by the religious right's hubris that THEY know God's will. When theyare condemned to hell, it won't be schadenfreude but heißfreude!

Zip

That's 2 sentences!

Mikey Solominow

No, that sentence is un-toppable…

gfrblxt

I reacted to the zeitgeist with the usual hubris of someone incapable of schadenfreude.

Then I killed myself.

(Sorry, that's 2 sentences.)

olandp

Hubris leads to schadenfreude with the current zeitgeist.

As few words as possible.

franco

Michael Musto's extreme haughtiness, pride and overestimation of his own competence and ability, a loss of contact with reality, simply put HUBRIS, exemplified daily in his writings where he deals with the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and political climate of New York, the nation in general and a specific group in particular, ZEITGEIST for short, brings out a perverse pleasure, a certain SCHADENFREUDE if you will, from some of his blog's followers including this one who try humorously for the most part to ground him by knocking the chip off his shoulder.

Joe Hammes

I have a certain sense of schadenfreude watching the Tea Party zeitgeist exposed as nothing more than unjustified hubris.

Musto

These are good!

Josef Aviance

The hubris of the Republican party seems to center around the idea that the political zeitgeist in this country truly agrees with the schadenfreude mentality of the Tea Party and hard-right conservatives.

jonster

Refusing to blame his parents for his lot in life, psychologist Albert Ellis forever changed the clinical zeitgeist of therapy with his hubris and shat on Freud.

Wellvann

Everyday before Mrs. Zeitgeist left for work, she had to make sure she to took little Schadenfreude out for his daily walk, to make certain that he did not leave any hubris lying on her brand new rug.

Drew Hunkins

The current American politico-economic zeitgeist isdominated by the hubris of the parasitic financial elite along with men likeMadoff who no doubt inspired a certain amount of schadenfreude in at least a few members of his innercircle.

Julie Taymor's hubris contributed to the budget overruns at Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, where technical woes have created no small amount of schadenfreude among those who believe the comic book spectacle truly captures Broadway's zeitgeist.