Example Sentences

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She can turn on a dime between conversational speech, pure-toned soprano singing, and Dadaistic noise.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 19, 2017

The irony, in a masterpiece like Ligeti’s opera “Le Grand Macabre,” is that these Dadaistic gestures now serve the purpose of highly sophisticated, entertaining and virtuosic art.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2016

The opera, with a Dadaistic libretto by Paul Griffiths, a former music critic for The New York Times, had its premiere in 1999 at the Berlin Staatsoper Unter den Linden, with Daniel Barenboim conducting.

From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2012