Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Turmoil; ferment.
- noun A German romantic literary movement of the late 1700s whose works typically depicted the struggles of a highly emotional individual against conventional society.
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- noun
Turmoil ; a period ofemotional intensity andanxiety .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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 Clarence B. Jones 2011
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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 Clarence B. Jones 2011
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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 Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011
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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 Clarence B. Jones 2011
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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 Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011
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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 2011
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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 Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011
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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 Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011
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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 Robert Greskovic 2011
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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 Clarence B. Jones 2011
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