How to Use Sturm und Drang in a Sentence

Sturm und Drang

noun
  • In other words, the Sturm und Drang is both cosmic and domestic.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 11 July 2026
  • Thanksgiving season offers a respite from this Sturm und Drang.
    MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2025
  • His own work seethed with the gritty vernacular of the street, evoking the Sturm und Drang of the Midwestern metropolis.
    News Desk, Artforum, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Yet there has been an asymmetry between the Sturm und Drang of that operation—a midnight raid featured agents rappelling from helicopters onto a South Side apartment building—and its effect.
    Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Despite the years of Sturm und Drang about pandemic origins, and the wholesale adoption of the lab-leak theory by the party that controls both Congress and the White House, a shaky status quo still persists in biosafety.
    Daniel Engber, The Atlantic, 7 July 2026

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