aleatory
Example Sentences
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The tonal lurching makes “Cardinal” feel whimsical and even a bit aleatory, like a John Cage sonata.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2018
The white-on-white markings can be seen as aleatory wall drawings.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 9, 2017
Many of the Plastic Ono Band’s early recordings in fact owe substantial debts to Coleman and other free jazz performers, to Karlheinz Stockhausen and Cage, and indeed to Mr. Ichiyanagi’s early aleatory compositions.
From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2015
As a generation from whom little was expected, we cultivated an aleatory, “slacker” ethos—well depicted in Richard Linklater’s film of the same name.
From Salon ● May 25, 2013
I am fain to believe this whole system of modern commerce was devised to please the amateurs of the aleatory.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
