aleatory

Example Sentences

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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

An innovative 1945 work, a concerto for piano and orchestra called “Lousadzak,” used elements of aleatory music, with instruments repeating phrases in random, uncoordinated fashion.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2011

The aleatory interest always averages up, but the successful, who have enjoyed good fortune for a time, believe that it must last for them, and forget that the balance requires bad luck.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham