outre
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Yet Keaton’s off-kilter taste—reflected elsewhere in her rambling dialogue delivery and outré fashion sense—is in evidence in her attraction to the strange personalities asked to ruminate on the hereafter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
Without food, Bong’s work would lose the indelible humanity that even his most outré, provocative films hold as a point of pride.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
But not all of Marlon’s brainstorms were so outré, and here is the Brando’s principal innovative success.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024
But where Pizzolatto’s “True Detective” stories were essentially traditional noirs with a gloss of pop psychology and horror-movie sensationalism, López commits fully to the outré and the supernatural.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024
It is very remarkable that Walter Scott, a Tory to the soul, should, by his apparently contradictory yet still most consistent love of the outré, have had a keen amateur sympathy for outlaws.
From Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
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