What's the difference between trendy and zeitgeisty?
Trendy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Cheers, then, to an apparent alliance of the NME, a few people in London's trendy E1 district and some dumb young musicians, because "New Rave" is upon us, and there is apparently no stopping it.
(2) Now there is talk of adding a range of ultra-trendy kale chips and kale shakes to the menu as well as encouraging customers to design their own bespoke burger.
(3) On a visit to Liverpool in November 2006 Thompson stayed in a trendy boutique hotel, The Hope Street hotel, spending just over £180.
(4) Brandishing images of what Virgin "lounges" might look like – similar to a stark yet trendy hotel restaurant – Gadhia admits that her other motto for running the business is "wanting to make everyone better off".
(5) It sounds like Michael Gove's worst nightmare, a country where some combination of teachers' union leaders and trendy academics, "valuing Marxism, revering jargon and fighting excellence" (to use the education secretary's words), have taken over the asylum.
(6) We did educate people about HIV to some extent, but mental health is not so cool or trendy and hasn’t got Elton John behind it.
(7) Particularly in London, when everyone is competing for your hard-earned capital to invest in their new location?” In some cases, place-making has meant going to extraordinary lengths: in poor parts of Harlem, estate agents bought up vacant street-front commercial properties and opened four trendy coffee shops , in an unabashed attempt to instigate gentrification themselves.
(8) If the U8’s avant-garde modernism seems a good fit for the graphic designers and fashionistas that now frequent the line on their way to trendy Neukölln, other station signs still hark back to the capital’s authoritarian past.
(9) It may yet prove to be hubris, but Shu’s old scooter has been sprayed gold and has pride of place in Deliveroo’s trendy London offices.
(10) There’s nothing flash or trendy about it, just an immaculate, traditionally brewed, higher alcohol stout; a reminder that, for all the cool stuff going on in the beer world today, you can always learn from the past.
(11) Michelle Obama After Michelle Obama had her hair cut into a trendy fringe, she pointed at her forehead and told a CNN reporter, "This is my midlife crisis, the bangs.
(12) Upscale Tehran hotels are packed and tables at trendy restaurants are scarce as foreigners jostle for bargains, even amid uncertainty over whether President Obama can overcome US congressional opposition to the deal .
(13) More recently, Boyd opened a bricks and mortar burger joint on trendy Lisburn Road.
(14) Jim Moir, the man who turned BBC Radio 2 from granny's favourite station into a service that trendy thirtysomethings are happy to be caught listening to, has agreed to continue running the network for another year.
(15) Pret’s customers are trendy, health-conscious types.
(16) It’s just something you’d rather not do.” The conference-goers seem to find comfort in telling and retelling the story of sushi – a strange, foreign dish that showcased raw fish and yet became not just acceptable but trendy in the west.
(17) • Meals from £6, Stockholmfoodtrucks.nu , or download the Streetkäk app Pärlans Konfektyr Watch the founders of this sweet shop in the trendy area of Sofo (South of Folkunggatan) on Södermalm making artisanal toffee and fudge.
(18) It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.
(19) Bobo, who speaks six languages, was a charming guide with a great sense of humour – and great fashion sense, mixing a batik suit with a modern gilet, or zebra-print shorts with a trendy T-shirt.
(20) Hence the trendy-posh hotel, where he is staying with his wife Rebecca Miller and their two sons.
Zeitgeisty
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The very thought is enough to get older Tory MPs spluttering into their gin this weekend – but it's probably a factor and a very zeitgeisty one.
(2) A zeitgeisty mirror reflecting socio-economic woes?
(3) Donald’s not coming back from that elegant, zeitgeisty takedown.” And yet he kept on coming, the malevolent zombie.
(4) In the meantime, here's the zeitgeisty way that United announced the news: Manchester United (@ManUtd) BREAKING: Manchester United announces that David Moyes has left the club.
(5) Carrie ended up being quite a zeitgeisty novel: published in the same rough timeframe as Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist , and when cinemas were showing Don't Look Now and The Wicker Man .
(6) Blank but loaded, their shiny, flat surfaces caught the eye of contemporary art tastemakers, including an impressed Charles Saatchi, who descended on Freeze with his magpie eye for the new and the zeitgeisty and bought all of them.
(7) Also, after the zeitgeisty opening about the blue-collar disco tribe, [Tribal Rites] is all narrative, and that much narrative detail tends to read as real.
(8) And while the media continues to ask female celebrities of all ages if they identify as feminists as some sort of zeitgeisty litmus test, young people like Blanchard are using their fame to push the conversation forward rather than let someone else control the narrative.
(9) Privacy, it seems, is moving from being a basic human right to a zeitgeisty marketing slogan.
(10) They seem more anti-establishment, more democratic, zeitgeisty and – with their messy, colloquial format – somehow more honest than traditional media.
(11) He appears to have an innate feel for entertainment that is cult yet mass-market, accessible but not dumb, polished and high-tech yet character-driven, zeitgeisty but infused with good old-fashioned storytelling.
(12) ( The Trip is, among other things, a wonderful satire on foodism, and the zeitgeisty truth that eating expensive food is now what middle-aged men do together: indeed, two men of my acquaintance went on a The Trip trip, eating in some of the same restaurants, and learned from one arch waiter that they were far from alone in their pilgrimage.)
(13) His zeitgeisty shows have presided over such a sea change in media literacy that even now there will be 12-year-olds claiming his paternity drama is a plot device designed to boost ratings of one or more of his entertainment properties.
(14) Watching them blithely wander, like innocent little babes, into the dark forest of zeitgeisty nutritional neuroses cooked up by the media and their fellow celebrities is just too fascinating to get hung up on why exactly they set off on this journey in the first place.
(15) That’s the tent which looked current and zeitgeisty during the jubilee but now gives the impression that the producers can’t accept 2012 is over.