How to Use Rorschach test in a Sentence

Rorschach test

noun
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  • Terminator 3 is a bit like a Rorschach test for fans of the franchise.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • Its gleaming shell looks like a Rorschach test of ink black and golden orange.
    — Rachel Carlson, NPR, 8 June 2024
  • The photo is a Rorschach test, a purposeful mixed message.
    — Diane Winston, The Conversation, 31 May 2024
  • Now, the nation had a new Rorschach test on immigration.
    — Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The shiny candy is a bit like a Rorschach test, writes columnist Robin Abcarian.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Beyond the health of the president himself, this moment offers a unique Rorschach test—for our country and for our politics.
    — Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 21 July 2022
  • But in a country where literary hits are a kind of Rorschach test, the popularity of his latest novel may be a sign of changing times.
    — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2023
  • So, maybe Seinfeld gives us another answer to this Rorschach test of a riddle: that startups and their metrics, like the Olympics, can become games of inches.
    — Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 6 June 2024
  • As soon as YouGov released the survey, the results circulated on social media and the reactions were a very Alabama sort of Rorschach test.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Dawn in this island village is a dissipating memory—a Rorschach test of clouds, backlit by the fiery rising sun that pours through the Moorish windows of my bedroom.
    — Stephanie Rafanelli, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2023
  • Soon videos of the trains were circulating all over; by January, the story had become international news and the images a kind of culture-war Rorschach test.
    — Malia Wollan, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2024
  • But in truth, the WHO is like a Rorschach test, with each of its different constituents seeing in it a different agency that should prioritize different goals.
    — Ashish Jha, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Simpson was, and even in death, still is something of a Rorschach test — definitely for Angelenos, but really for all Americans.
    — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
  • But, as Chin’s story has become widely known, it’s also become a kind of political Rorschach test among Asian Americans.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 23 June 2022
  • Instead, like Nilsson’s photographs, the Birth Series serves today as a kind of Rorschach test, capable of conveying any number of meanings.
    — Stephanie Gorton, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 July 2023
  • The frontman’s between-song jokes and spotty vocals ultimately led to the band’s US Festival performance becoming a Rorschach test that still divides fans to this day.
    — Sean Burch, SPIN, 29 May 2023
  • The fight has become a Rorschach test for local tolerance of the tech industry’s new ideas: Are the driverless cars an interesting and safe transportation alternative?
    — Yiwen Lu, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The legislation is another example of how the Capitol riot has become a political Rorschach test in the country.
    — Maysoon Khan, Hartford Courant, 22 Jan. 2023
  • Already, though, the roadmap is proving to be a political Rorschach test, with liberals and conservatives seeing opposite threats in its contours.
    — NBC News, 28 May 2021
  • The collection acts as a Rorschach test of sorts, with some seeing in the distortions pregnant bellies, schoolgirl backpacks or even a sendup of the swaggering padded shoulders adopted by women who entered corporate America in the 1980s.
    — Kin Woo, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Now, as prosecutors continue to investigate the circumstances of Mr. Neely’s death, the case has become a political Rorschach test, dividing the city along long-simmering fault lines.
    — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 4 May 2023
  • Machine is a deeply provocative and personal project, exemplifying artistic freedom, extending the boundaries for all things creative, reflecting back on all of us like a thoroughly thrilling Rorschach test.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Its propaganda can carry multiple messages simultaneously and can serve as a type of Rorschach test for differing opinions.
    — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Like Freudian analysis, or a linguistic Rorschach test, the puzzle creates meaning out of the chance encounters between words and images, proper and sometimes improper nouns, and acts as a window into our fantasies, tastes, and unyielding fixations.
    — Anna Shechtman, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The choice to praise or condemn him has become yet another Rorschach test of political team loyalty; the decision to stay silent has proved equally offensive and obituaries were immediately parsed for, depending on the parser, hypocrisy and bias.
    — Mary McNamara, Star Tribune, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Expectations were so incredibly high with the No. 1 recruiting class — probably unrealistically so — that every loss has become a Rorschach test on Fisher’s progress in Year 5.
    — Dallas News, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Emily the Criminal, a small, spikey, effective movie about a downwardly mobile Millennial art-school graduate turning to a life of crime, is a political and moral Rorschach test that gradually resolves itself into a meditation on the lure of sin.
    — Ross Douthat, National Review, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Yet its arrival is a comfort, offering sounds that will ring familiar to longtime fans — and to everyone else serve as an atmospheric Rorschach test, alternately primitive and futuristic, beautiful and menacing, propulsive and ethereal.
    — Todd Gilchrist, Variety, 28 July 2023
  • Automation in the 1940s Cotton Fields Automation is a bit of a Rorschach test for anyone interested in workers’ rights.
    — JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2024

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