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Example sentences for: prewar
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Nickles called NATO's prewar peace proposal to the Serbs "a very arrogant agreement" that "really caused this thing to escalate."
Now "auction" invokes eBay and the sort of human progress that means an unsociable collector of original animation cells from prewar Warner Bros. cartoons will now have even fewer occasions to socialize awkwardly with others, in their pretty-boy footwear.
Can any postwar song match this prewar stanza from lyricist Leon Robin: "Venus de Milo/ Was noted for her charms/ But strictly between us/ You're cuter than Venus/ And what's more, you've got arms"?
Indeed, compared to the prewar wealthy, the contemporary rich have no apparent class markers.
On both counts, prewar anti-clericalism and postwar apocalyptic angst gave the Surrealists and Dubuffet, respectively, historic urgency lacking in the gratuitous neo-primitivism of Ofili.
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