Sturm und Drang, (German: "Storm and Stress"), German literary movement of the late 18th century that exalted nature, feeling, and human individualism and sought to overthrow the Enlightenment cult of Rationalism.
In adopting a new and impressive royal costume, Alexander expressed the exalted nature of his recently won kingship of Asia by devising a hybrid Macedonian– Persian dress.
This obvious indictment of a political system escaped contemporary audiences but inspired the later dramatists of the Sturm und Drang ("Storm and Stress") movement, which exalted nature and human feeling and individualism.
Advanced birders talk about an exalted melding of nature and mind when observers can feel the bird's essence or "jiz" (a word derived from the acronym GISS, general impression of shape and size).
Through such a metaphysics, he maintained, the final causes of life itself might be discovered; its insights inspired him to an exalted pantheistic trust in nature that is movingly expressed in essays on Marcus Aurelius (in Nouveaux essais) and Iphigeneia (in Derniers essais).
Extremes of human nature, dire and exalted, are the subjects of Bradford Cox's songs for his band Deerhunter; and extremes of sound, consonant and bristling, are his vehicle.
At school, poetry was mostly Romantic poetry, it was exalted, it was about love and nature and great subjects - not about the slums of Glasgow".
First, by defining ultimate truth as "the nature of things found by particular exalted cognitive processes (yishes) of those who perceive reality," he means ultimate truth is not found by any exalted cognitive processes, it must be found by the particular exalted cognitive processes analytic that knows things just as they are.
A new wave of ideology — a silent "revolution" built on the "exalted" mother figure and a toxic, back-to-nature "new essentialism" — is bearing down on Frenchwomen, threatening them with exhortations to embrace their motherly instincts, reject disposable diapers and breast-feed.
"Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows," he went on.
Darwin: "Thus from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production of the higher animals, directly follows". In the Galapagos, biologists have chronicled the war in pitiless statistics.
