bizarrerie
Britishnoun
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the quality of being bizarre
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a bizarre act
Example Sentences
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The intellectual historian Sander Gilman, in an essay titled “Strauss, the Pervert, and Avant Garde Opera of the Fin de Siècle,” argued that the sexual bizarrerie of “Salome” is designed to conjure an unflattering picture of a degenerate society.
From The New Yorker
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
To give an award to such minor-league bizarrerie is to reduce the greater achievements of New York dance to parochial triviality.
From New York Times
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