How to Use experimentalism in a Sentence

experimentalism

noun

• This Weeknd team-up proves she’s always had a pop-star gift under the shards of experimentalism.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
• This was Prince’s third album, but the first on which his lusty funk-pop experimentalism was operating at full sweat levels.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2016
• The song’s experimentalism is out of this world, but its solar flair is grounded by the earthiness of the instrumentation.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 12 June 2018
• The rest of the nine-track album pushes to new extremities of silence, slowness, and experimentalism.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2019
• Twigs edges just to the brink of the mainstream but leaps back into experimentalism before getting too close to ordinariness.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2022
• The experimentalism and audacity of 1980s club kids inspired Valentino, one of the last high-octane shows of this Paris Fashion Week couture season.
  — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 26 Jan. 2023
• In You is exactly the sort of sprawling (20 songs!), no-boundaries pastiche of experimentalism that pushes the band farther in every direction than it’s been before.
  — Vogue, 9 Nov. 2022
• Everything from folk to gospel to blues seeped into the Bad Seeds’ sound, filtered through an orchestral flair for drama and a deconstructionist’s sense of experimentalism.
  — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 4 May 2017
• Lewis’s 25-minute track culls energy from techniques of classical experimentalism — as well from brass and wind accents that recall Duke Ellington.
  — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
• Hours later, with the rain long gone, Skyway Man, the current working name of James Wallace, played a delightful set of eccentric songs with airtight arrangements that at times fused, via a circuitous route, folk, experimentalism and even prog rock.
  — Jim Fusilli, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2017
• It's got bits of disco, trip-hop, and new wave peppered throughout for a fresh take on commercial viability that doesn't have to put brakes on experimentalism, a cornerstone of what Gorillaz are all about.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 5 July 2017
• As warm weather and weekend one of Coachella kicked off with a sartorial bang, fashion’s favorite faces sported sunny looks offset with a dash of experimentalism.
  — Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2018
• Parker offers a glowing gift of approachable experimentalism to non-jazz listeners and skeptics alike with sounds that are sunny and sweet, smooth and delectable.
  — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
• Regardless of the drug in question, McCartney’s tape-loop experimentalism was a mind-blowing musical exercise for the artist himself, as well as for Beatles fans.
  — Scott Thill, WIRED, 9 June 2011
• At the same time, she is attracted to vivid colors, extravagant gestures, experimentalism with a visceral streak.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• With his dark Mexican rave sound, the New York-by-way-of-Tijuana producer explores themes of power and corruption through minimal experimentalism.
  — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2023
• He has been singled out for praise by Herbie Hancock and others for his daring approach to cutting-edge improvisations and take-no-prisoners experimentalism.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2021
• While visual arts, dance, and theater tend to be open to experimentalism, classical music is generally less keen on innovation; orchestra repertoires across the world consistently recycle the works of composers who are long dead.
  — Maya Chung, The New York Review of Books, 26 Mar. 2019
• Parks freed into a glorious experimentalism, with violin the instigator of her party.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 26 Dec. 2022
• Magdalene, a devastating and delicate feat of musical craftsmanship that combines classical operatics and pop experimentalism, all while Twigs works her way through a very public breakup.
  — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Mar. 2022
• Poco’s music was generally twangier and more populist than that of Buffalo Springfield, a band that had at times gravitated toward experimentalism and obfuscation.
  — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2021
• Meredith Monk has curated this concert devoted exclusively to music by Kline, an enduring New York composer whose music combines the idealism of experimentalism with the gritty intensity of rock.
  — The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2016
• To French readers, Mr. Déon was a complicated and contrarian figure: a political reactionary whose work evolved from experimentalism to more traditional forms, and an enthusiastic champion of young renegade writers.
  — William Grimes, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2017
• Vijay Iyer’s avant-garde excursions borrow from Monk’s percussive experimentalism.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2017
• Now his experimentalism and transnationalism aren’t discouragements but invitations to a larger global audience.
  — Adam Bradley Tajh Rust, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
• Audiences don’t exactly flock to Blomstedt for interpretive experimentalism.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023

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