Sturm und Drang

NOUN
  1. a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
    the industrial revolution was a period of great turbulence
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How To Use Sturm und Drang In A Sentence

  • All of this sturm und drang is just plain tedious, with the same sides making the same invalid arguments and accusations. The Latest Teacup Tempest
  • Except, perhaps, for the inclusion of the dance's peat-covered stage, strikingly filmed here as it's being put in place, there seems little about this Sturm und Drang battle of the sexes for barefoot women in thin slips and bare-chested, barefoot men in black slacks that trendy French modernist Maurice Béjart or any number of earnest modern-dance practitioners might not have done. A Posthumous Spotlight on a Force of Nature
  • Of these Sturm und Drang is a slogan derived from a contemporary play by Friedrich Maximilian Klinger performed in 1777, while Klassik is a term dating from the late nineteenth century to match Romantik a des - ignation first used derisively for the Heidelberg group in 1808. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
  • It's a task that's knocked out some of the best, yet in the midst of all this journalistic Sturm und Drang, The Ferndale Enterprise has endured, publishing a hard copy edition every Thursday for the last 133 years and still going strong from its tiny wood-shingled office on Main Street in Ferndale, CA., courtesy most recently of the indefatigable Ms. Titus. Lorraine Devon Wilke: Women Of the News: Ferndale's Enterprising Editor, Caroline Titus
  • They're Moonlighting, they're Nick and Nora, as clever and funny as can be, but it's always the Sturm und Drang that carries us away. Walt Willey Weighs in on All My Children's New Love Triangle
  • It is refreshing that amidst all of this Sturm und Drang, some Palestinian activists remain inspired by the legacy of our Freedom Riders. Clarence B. Jones: I Woke Up This Morning with My Mind Set on Freedom
  • Never do you get the sense that the Angeles is trying to impress you with virtuosic plunges or move you to tears with saccharine cantabiles, although both happened to me in their rendition of the Sturm und Drang Opus 20 quartets.
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