(1) Despite our difference in generation, gender and literary purpose, it was clear to me that he and I were both working with some of the same aesthetic influences: film, surrealist art and poetry; Freud's avant-garde theories of the unconscious.
(2) A block further sits the Museum of Chocolate, joining the avant-garde of luxury chocolatiers that seem the hallmark of every bustling metropolis these days.
(3) Yes, they acknowledge that we may have a "multi-speed" Europe – with an avant garde of France, Germany, Belgium and others going faster, Spain, Sweden and Poland somewhat slower, and Britain bringing up the rear.
(4) As recently as 15 years ago, it was one of the few venues in London championing avant-garde art; now it is one among many.
(5) There were conflicts, hesitations and contradictions within the avant garde as well, and their supporter in the government was Anatoly Lunacharsky at the People’s Commissariat for Education, where Lenin’s wife, Nadya Krupskaya, worked as well.
(6) The track is not exactly Metallica: others might peg it closer to avant-garde rock.
(7) Since his withdrawal from the music scene, Shields has earned a reputation as the latter-day Brian Wilson, a tormented genius unable to produce a successor to Loveless, the Pet Sounds of UK avant-rock.
(8) By 1990, when he enrolled at Central St Martins, McQueen had learned tailoring in Savile Row, complex historical pattern cutting at Bermans & Nathans, avant garde construction at the hip designer Koji Tatsuno, and received a grounding in the workings of the fashion industry under Gigli in Milan.
(9) If the U8’s avant-garde modernism seems a good fit for the graphic designers and fashionistas that now frequent the line on their way to trendy Neukölln, other station signs still hark back to the capital’s authoritarian past.
(10) Friends of mine who play free jazz run an event called Avant Guarde at King Kong in Jeppestown: the audience listens to avant garde jazz records and a band plays afterwards.
(11) Arena staging was still seen at the time as eccentric, avant garde, even controversial.
(12) Among his early influences were Jean Cocteau and the Italian neo-realists but, after arriving in New York in 1954, he joined the flourishing avant-garde scene, drawing inspiration from artists and filmmakers like Maya Deren, Marie Menken and Joseph Cornell.
(13) In turn, the works influenced the avant garde of the early 20th century – artists such as Paul Klee and Jean Dubuffet who relished its "uncooked" nature, and started searching for it outside Europe's asylums.
(14) In the 1920s it became a usefully geometrical symbol incorporated by avant-garde painters.
(15) Before the digital age, they created their own technology to make sound montages, taking ironic liberties with pastiche and parody, as in "Sugar-cane fields forever", or the exaggerated Latin melodrama of El Justiciero (The Avenger) They were influenced by concrete poetry and avant-garde music.
(16) Niemeyer designed most of the city's important buildings, while French-born, avant-garde architect Lucio Costa crafted its distinctive aeroplane-like layout.
(17) It's a little bit vaguely avant-garde in its concept and I'm just not sure if it's going to quite gel... it's a thing where maybe there's many things happening at once."
(18) Anderson – performer, composer, artist and all-round superstar of New York's downtown avant garde – has spent decades probing the bizarre customs and rituals of American life.
(19) Like many occupying music's avant-garde edges, Sharp has a lot of time for the visionaries - people like Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and Sergey Kuryokhin, the Russian jazz pianist who, until his death in 1996, led the band Pop Mechanica.
(20) Mr. Hublot Possessions Room on the Broom Best short Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything) Helium Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa?
Vant
Definition:
(v. i.) See Vaunt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cultured confluent human umbilical vein endothelial cells were incubated with new-breviscapine (NB), a flavonoid consisting of 4-OH-scutellarin-7-O-glucuronide (C33H30O18) and FeCl3, MgCl2, and CaCl2, which is first extracted from Erigeron breviscapus (Vant) Hand-Mazz in China, 0, 6.25, 12.5, 25, 50, 100, and 1,000 micrograms.ml-1.
(2) Boyle-vant Hoff plots of cell volume as a function of inverse osmotic pressure showed that the cells behaved as osmometers.
(3) Enthalpies of solution in water, delta H0sol, and vant'Hoff enthalpies of sublimation, delta H0subl, were determined experimentally for a number of crystalline 2-alkyl derivatives of 9-methyladenine: m2(2,9)Ade, e2m9Ade, pr2m9Ade and but2m9Ade.
(4) Robert Vant Holmfirth, West Yorkshire • So David Reed’s suggestion to improve rugby union appears to be to stop rugby union existing and just have rugby league.