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  • Ms. Carol Fernandez went on at length about my mom, "the raven-haired avant-garde painter Helen Thermopolis," and about my dad, "the handsome Prince Phillipe of Genovia," who'd "successfully battled his way back from a bout of testicular cancer."†  (source)
  • At first Hiro thinks it must be some kind of avant-garde helmet.†  (source)
  • 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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  • Beside her were the books that had marked her as an avant-garde undergraduate: Sartre, Colette, Proust, Flaubert.†  (source)
    avant-garde = radically new and experimental; or people who practice radically new and experimental ideas -- especially in the arts
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Avant-garde cello collective, eh.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • It helped that his hairstyle was a tad avant-garde, or "messy," as Kara put it.†  (source)
  • Do you know anything about the avant-garde theatre there's so much talk about?†  (source)
  • For years, B. B. Smithers had been considered the queen of avant-garde jewelry.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • It's the only avant-garde we've got.†  (source)
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