aleatory
Example Sentences
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The white-on-white markings can be seen as aleatory wall drawings.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2017
Many of the Plastic Ono Band’s early recordings in fact owe substantial debts to Coleman and other free jazz performers, to Karlheinz Stockhausen and Cage, and indeed to Mr. Ichiyanagi’s early aleatory compositions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2015
As a generation from whom little was expected, we cultivated an aleatory, “slacker” ethos—well depicted in Richard Linklater’s film of the same name.
From Salon ● May 25, 2013
He was also an important literary innovator who picked up where the Surrealists left off, pioneering the Cut-Up Method, the aleatory springboard for Burroughs’s best writing.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2010
Misfortunes arrest their attention and remain in their memory. 7Hence the ills of life are the mode of manifestation of the aleatory element which has most affected life policy.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
