bizarrerie

• The next (also live) Groupies is again another spoof-goof track, which is impeccably played, borrowing from every kind of popular ditties, but again, this all-out bizarrerie is rather unnerving: Maybe I accept more of this stuff from Zappa than from these crazy Dutchmen, but I have problems coming to grip with this kind of silliness. —  AvaxHome RSS:
• It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with an utter abandon. —  krimiblog.de
• It was often the term applied to bizarrerie--it was fashionable to draw naďvely, as it was called. —  Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
• Owing mainly, no doubt, to the double origin of our language, with its strange and violent contrasts between the highly-coloured crudity of the Saxon words and the ambiguous splendour of the Latin vocabulary; owing partly, perhaps, to a national taste for the intensely imaginative, and partly, too, to the vast and penetrating influence of those grand masters of bizarrerie--the Hebrew Prophets--our poetry, our prose, and our whole conception of the art of writing have fallen under the dominion of the emphatic, the extraordinary, and the bold. —  Books and Characters French and English
• Of his manner of writing French I spoke when quoting his letters to Franchomme (see Vol. I., p. 258 Liszt's account of Chopin's bizarrerie is in the main correct, although we have, of course, to make some deduction for exaggeration. —  Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete

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