anomiein a sentence
- It is a bold experiment to fight avarice, depravity, and anomie among the masses with humanism rather than religion.
- It didn't occur to me then, though it certainly does now, that it was years since I'd roused myself from my stupor of misery and self-absorption; between anomie and trance, inertia and parenthesis and gnawing my own heart out, there were a lot of small, easy, everyday kindnesses I'd missed out on; and even the word kindness was like rising from unconsciousness into some hospital awareness of voices, and people, from a stream of digitized machines.† (source)
- The turmoil of an earlier era has been replaced by a sad and rootless anomie.† (source)