Example sentences for: outré

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

  • 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.

  • 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.)

  • of a father selling his son's body is too outré to have much resonance" (Rafferty, The New Yorker ). Arteta, however, receives praise for his "realistic" style and "flair for caustic storytelling" (Maslin, New York Times ). "Star Maps signals the arrival of a potentially major new talent," says Newsday 's Jack Mathews.

  • 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."

  • My, my, how outré . Do not even think of responding with a gift.


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