Example sentences for: nouvelle

How can you use “nouvelle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That old politique --the auteur theory, in plain English--was first articulated in the 1950s by a group of French critics, many of whom went on to become, as directors, fixtures of the Nouvelle Vague . In a nutshell, the theory--brought to these shores in 1962 by Village Voice film critic Andrew Sarris--held that, like any work of art, a film represents the vision of an individual artist, almost always the director.

  • The heroine of our nouvelle is Marie, a petite femme fatale from Paris.

  • You will still find the elegant, spare plates of ­nouvelle cuisine, but there is a new focus on heartier dishes and an acceptance of cuisines of other countries.

  • The cringe-making menu prose--“50 ways to love your liver”--disguises a reasonably echt core of standard deli fair [sic]: cream cheese and lox, salt beef [`corned beef'], gefilte fish--with a few nouvelle intruders like sun-dried tomato and mozarella [sic] salad.


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