bizarrerie
Britishnoun
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the quality of being bizarre
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a bizarre act
Example Sentences
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Boone’s stubbornness, and the angry meddling of these ghosts arouses a crisis in Jill, and the story switches between her memories of life, her reconsiderations of the idea of deathbed absolution and the interruptions of a bizarrerie—if, for Mr. Saunders, a rather tame one—of other phantoms.
The music was loud and joyous in the extreme, sung, beaten upon drums, and played upon simple lutes and chitarrones; the dancing, though marked with great bizarrerie in its movements, was intoxicating in its strangeness and exhilarating in its exultation; and, despite what I had been told at the College of Lucidity of the dancing of slaves, it was executed with complete propriety: There was no intermingling of the sexes, but each maintained its separate steps and songs.
From Literature
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My heart, though, stays untouched by the strenuous bizarrerie of Ms. Tharp’s style.
From New York Times
Originally titled “Night Shadow” in 1946, this is a Romantic drama tinged by Gothic horror and bizarrerie.
From New York Times
He was attacked as a dilettante, one whose music wavered between bombast and bizarrerie, whose poetic productions mixed platitude and gibberish.
From The New Yorker
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