spirit of the age in English

spirit of the times, mood of the times

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1. Clearly the appeal of the Virgo archetype belonged to the spirit of the age.

2. 26 As rock musicians in the 1960s, they were very much part of the spirit of the age/times.

3. In 1996, the academic John Roberts summed up the spirit of the age as one of 'fuck-you Attitudinising ' in relation to traditions and orthodoxies; writing in The Guardian in 2012, Will Self recalled that he admired the Goldsmiths generation in their heady heyday precisely because of 'their conscious rejection of all codified styles and modes'.