Example sentences for: outré

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

  • They involve Dada nose-thumbing, Expressionist brio, an American appreciation of pure funk, a flâneur 's eye for chance and juxtaposition in the streets, a sensualist's feeling for the most outré kinds of texture, and a scopophiliac's unquenchable thirst for images, all kinds, right now, from industrial logos to comic strips to postage stamps to Velázquez's Rokeby Venus . (He also, incidentally, has quite an ear, capable of doing more with a one-word title-- Rebus , Currency , Interview , Barge , Express --than most writers.)

  • Ballard's complex, image-driven fiction partakes of surrealism, hovers within the orbits of sci-fi, and laps at the outré.

  • The relish Versace brings to his clear vinyl dresses strewn with rhinestones, or to shiny-colored opaque ones punctuated with nifty cutouts, has traditional bravura and sprezzatura in it, suggesting Bernini at his most outré.

  • The point, after all, is to be outré . Killers are outré . Wrongly accused prison inmates are merely tragic.

  • Then, too, the outré behavior you describe was taking place at your house, allowing you to feel (rightly, Prudie thinks) that l'état, c'est moo . ("I'm bossy around here."


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