How to Use identity crisis in a Sentence

identity crisis

noun
Definition of identity crisisnext
  • He is suffering from an identity crisis.
  • In the late 1960s, black people were in the midst of an identity crisis.
    — Giulia L. Heyward, The New Republic, 15 June 2020
  • At the time of the group’s founding, Japan was a country in flux and in the midst of a deep identity crisis.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • All that’s left are the bones of a movie that’s going through an identity crisis, and a good idea gone to waste.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2022
  • It’s been a challenge, just like as a person, to have an identity crisis all the time.
    — Andy Wang, Robb Report, 28 May 2022
  • But at times, the show seemed to suffer from an identity crisis.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • Drawing the Packers in the midst of their own identity crisis.
    — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The flip was the impetus for the resultant identity crisis of the state GOP.
    — Kaelan Deese, Washington Examiner, 3 Feb. 2021
  • It’s a tragedy and an apt portrait of an identity crisis.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 9 July 2021
  • The show comes at a time when the city is suffering a kind of identity crisis over its failure to build big.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
  • On top of day-to-day snafus, the camp was having an identity crisis.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2021
  • And did that ever give you any sort of identity crisis?
    — Vulture, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Square Enix has been struggling with an identity crisis with the series for more than a decade.
    — Jhaan Elker, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
  • Chris Hemsworth is back as the Norse god, this time in the midst of an interstellar identity crisis.
    — Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 19 May 2022
  • But Gilpin’s identity crisis is a bit too raw to ring hollow.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 15 June 2022
  • In the age of hip-hop, female pop stars are facing an identity crisis.
    — Neil Shah, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • The shift to the marketplace model can feel like an identity crisis for some brands.
    — Adrien Nussenbaum, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • This happened at a time when the U.S. is going through its own identity crisis.
    — Nina Xiang, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Of course, the ACC isn't the only conference that's dealing with a bit of an identity crisis.
    — Lucas Aulbach, The Courier-Journal, 9 Jan. 2020
  • For a team that has made the Finals once in the last decade and seems to be stuck in a permanent identity crisis, the time might have come to try something else.
    — Mike Meehall Wood, Forbes, 12 May 2021
  • This year, the Patriots are dealing with a bit of an identity crisis on the defensive side of the ball.
    — Jeff Smith, ajc, 2 Oct. 2017
  • At the outset, TVG suffered a bit of an identity crisis.
    — Tod Leonard, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2019
  • From the get-go, Hulu has had something of an identity crisis.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 25 Aug. 2021
  • But that doesn’t mean its identity crisis is resolved for points south.
    — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
  • Flipping through a collection of pamphlets for the sale from years gone by, its clear the group’s name has had an identity crisis of sorts.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 28 June 2022
  • Auburn’s offense is in the middle of an identity crisis.
    — Tom Green | [email protected], al, 12 Oct. 2022
  • But in the eyes of critics, the antics signal the identity crisis that the party, once Asia’s wealthiest, now faces.
    — New York Times, 12 Feb. 2021
  • In my own life, being an actor is a little bit of an identity crisis on its own.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
  • But many younger consumers now have a different image of the company, creating an identity crisis for the brand that Niccol and his team will need to solve.
    — Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The one person who is not having an identity crisis is Prince Regent Aemond, whose confidence as his brother’s fill-in king has outgrown the massive size of his own dragon.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 21 July 2024

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