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avant-garde
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    Paul Rousseau's observation post was located directly above the café, and the sharp downward angle of the surveillance camera was such that Natalie and Jalal seemed like characters in an avant-garde French film.†  (source)
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    The strangely dressed woman was a famous writer, one of those rare novelists who wrote in an avant-garde style but still had many readers.†  (source)
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    She was still wearing Web fashions then, involved in Post-Destructionist music theories, reading Obit and Nihil and the most avant-garde magazines from Renaissance Vector and TC2, feigning sophisticated weariness with life and a rebel's vocabulary-and none of this jelled with the undersized but earnest history major who spilled fruit cocktail on her at Dean Moore's honors party.†  (source)
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    Nor do I know whether accepting the lesson has placed me in the rear or in the avant-garde.†  (source)
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    It read as follows: The position which the rebels occupy in our front may be turned by a gorge about six miles from us, through a country in which cavalry may make the avant garde.†  (source)
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    Their avant-gardism merely constitutes another kind of conventionality for him, a way of being "chic" or "in," whereas his heroic ideal goes its solitary way even though it outrage friend as well as foe and confound lover as well as stranger.†  (source)
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    Do you know anything about the avant-garde theatre there's so much talk about?†  (source)
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    The other side of the room is as neat as Cedric'sa few books stacked in one corner of a spotless desk next to a botde of hand cream, a few avant-garde posters, several pairs of stylish shoes and boots per-fecdy aligned on the closet floor.†  (source)
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    It's the only avant-garde we've got.†  (source)
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    The eye slits beneath the low brow stared across the plaza; the sculpture gave this part of town an avant-garde sensibility.†  (source)
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    Avant-garde cello collective, eh.†  (source)
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    It helped that his hairstyle was a tad avant-garde, or "messy," as Kara put it.†  (source)
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    Beside her were the books that had marked her as an avant-garde undergraduate: Sartre, Colette, Proust, Flaubert.†  (source)
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