as in turmoil
a disturbed or uneasy state
in a year filled with corporate Sturm und Drang, the company was headed by no fewer than three different CEOs
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Recent Examples of Sturm und Drang
Still, after all the Sturm und Drang surrounding Starbucks in the last few years, the best favor a CEO could do for the company and its troops is to be clear and articulate the way forward.
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Phil Wahba, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
The effect is meditative and moving, an urgent quietude not always found in the Sturm und Drang that attends both our contemporary poetry and our politics.
—Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Kate has long been a reliable pillar of the British family, showing up and smiling at every public event at which she was asked to appear, reacting to the Sturm und Drang of royal drama with an air of determined normalcy.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 6 June 2024
And Dastmalchian’s performance is ultimately too interesting and layered to deserve a finale that, for all its pyrotechnic Sturm und Drang, feels so shallow.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
Engulfed in the Sturm und Drang of the rest of Dark Matter, this slightly ungainly quasi-lullaby could potentially come off as corny and off-script.
—Morgan Enos, SPIN, 19 Apr. 2024
Months removed from the Sturm und Drang, Gelfond’s detractors have come around.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
There was none of the Sturm und Drang of last year, at least, when the White House went back and forth with Fox Corp. over whether Biden would sit for an interview.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2024
The play seems to speak directly to our current culture wars concerning race and history, in schools and beyond, from the Sturm und Drang over the New York Times’s 1619 Project to Rufo’s farcical witch-hunting with respect to critical race theory.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
Phil Wahba, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2024
The effect is meditative and moving, an urgent quietude not always found in the Sturm und Drang that attends both our contemporary poetry and our politics.
—Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Kate has long been a reliable pillar of the British family, showing up and smiling at every public event at which she was asked to appear, reacting to the Sturm und Drang of royal drama with an air of determined normalcy.
—Constance Grady, Vox, 6 June 2024
And Dastmalchian’s performance is ultimately too interesting and layered to deserve a finale that, for all its pyrotechnic Sturm und Drang, feels so shallow.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 19 Apr. 2024
Engulfed in the Sturm und Drang of the rest of Dark Matter, this slightly ungainly quasi-lullaby could potentially come off as corny and off-script.
—Morgan Enos, SPIN, 19 Apr. 2024
Months removed from the Sturm und Drang, Gelfond’s detractors have come around.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 4 Apr. 2024
There was none of the Sturm und Drang of last year, at least, when the White House went back and forth with Fox Corp. over whether Biden would sit for an interview.
—Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2024
The play seems to speak directly to our current culture wars concerning race and history, in schools and beyond, from the Sturm und Drang over the New York Times’s 1619 Project to Rufo’s farcical witch-hunting with respect to critical race theory.
—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
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