situationism
noun
the theory that behavior is chiefly response to immediate situations.
situationist
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a word derived from
situationism.
Example Sentences
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His malaise spreads through the museum, culminating in a gobsmacking sequence in which a situationist ape impersonator menaces wealthy patrons at a black-tie dinner.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2017
In 1967, the French situationist Guy Debord uncannily predicted a society in which the relationships between people were “mediated by images”.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2015
Photograph: Paramount Pictures/Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar After his live-ammo situationist spoofs Borat and Brüno, Sacha Baron Cohen has returned to straight fiction-features with his broad satire The Dictator.
From The Guardian ● May 17, 2012
Their presence reminded Friday of an old situationist stunt from the Virgin Prunes days.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 25, 2010
Yet by refusing to acknowledge absolutes, the situationist can defend, for example, the World War II concentration-camp doctor who saved the lives of 3,000 Rumanian Jewish women by secretly performing abortions on them.
From Time Magazine Archive
