How to Use experimentalism in a Sentence
experimentalism
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This Weeknd team-up proves she’s always had a pop-star gift under the shards of experimentalism.
—Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2022
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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
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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
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The rest of the nine-track album pushes to new extremities of silence, slowness, and experimentalism.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Parks freed into a glorious experimentalism, with violin the instigator of her party.
—Spin Staff, SPIN, 26 Dec. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Vijay Iyer’s avant-garde excursions borrow from Monk’s percussive experimentalism.
—David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2017
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Audiences don’t exactly flock to Blomstedt for interpretive experimentalism.
—Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
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