Sturm und Drang

Example Sentences

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But beneath all the Sturm und Drang, the AI trade had already started to reconfigure itself.

From Barron's • Nov. 28, 2025

Oddly, amid all the Sturm und Drang occasioned by the governor’s infrastructure package, Newsom has refrained from using his regulatory authority over CEQA.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2023

So has all the Sturm und Drang been a big hullaballoo over nothing?

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2023

Sometimes Snider’s Sturm und Drang suggested early feminist boldness, or corresponding public sphere controversy.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2022

For Sturm und Drang, there’s not much to beat the peroration of Frederick Douglass’s 1852 Fourth of July address.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith