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nature morte

noun as in still life

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Peter Nagy, an American who has run the contemporary gallery Nature Morte in New Delhi for more than two decades, curated the show, bringing together a dozen artists to exhibit their work throughout the apartments of the palace, which itself is set within the 18th-century Nahargarh Fort.

A picture of Prigozhin frowning and the text of Joseph Brodsky's "Nature Morte" lay on the freshly dug ground of his grave.

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Together, Kim and Piontek show that the nature morte is far from dead.

I had to read that the section during which the dancers lie still is a kind of pun on the French term for “still life”: “nature morte” or “nature dying.”

The ghost gun’s red case was propped open on the table and the weapon was displayed in front of it in a nature morte.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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