Storm and Stress

American  

noun

1. Sturm und Drang.

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Etymology

Origin of Storm and Stress

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

He himself said of the greatest of his Storm and Stress dramas that he had attempted to portray humanity before he really knew humanity.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

His Faust of the Storm and Stress period is essentially a Romanticist.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno

It was in the heart of the Storm and Stress; it was the time of 'Götz' and 'Mahomet' and the 'Wandering Jew' and 'Werther' and 'Prometheus.'

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various

Goethe was thirty-seven when, in 1786, he turned his back upon the Storm and Stress, and in Italy sought and gained a new and saner vision of the world.

From Essays on Scandinavian Literature by Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth

This German expression has been well translated "Storm and Stress."

From Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson by Stevenson, Robert Louis