Sentence examples for New Waver from inspiring English sources

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New Waver

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One of the fans or creators of the new wave music of the 1970s and 1980s.

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I was a "new waver" now — at least as much as you could be in suburban Pittsburgh.

He's a new waver, steeped in the Cars, the Cure, Depeche Mode and other bands that set melancholy romance to electronic blips and snappy little hooks.

You dressed either as a Top Rank disco kid, a new waver in black drains and narrow tie, or one of those mutants like mohican punk or skinhead.

It recalls his adolescence in Thornhill, Ontario, as a teenager who wanted nothing more than "to be Bowie," putting on eyeliner to impress an older girl and living the liminal life of a Persian-Canadian new waver.

(Sinagra) CYNDI LAUPER (Tuesday) The New Waver Cyndi Lauper has become a visible social activist, while retaining the zany streak that made her jumpy pro-girl pop songs and emotional synthesizer ballads favorites on MTV in the 80's.

Powers's story is undeniably personal; we meet her as a teenage Seattle new waver, dropping acid for the first time on the Fourth of July , 1980 and leave her as a married, homeowning burgher in money-drunk New York City.

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Then in the 70s, New York new wavers and punks started lounging around the Bowery with their torn jeans and stupid hair.

For it turns out that new wavers were drawn to the same harmonies as medieval monks.

In contrast to the old New Wavers, who sought to interrogate the relationship between the real and the image, the new New Wavers seized on the unreality of cinema, underscoring its falsity, its theatricality, its surface.

Plus, after years of neglect, these new wavers are, finally, giving the toastie the respect it deserves.

Moretti has never been taken as seriously, however, as the glorious generation of new wavers that preceded him.

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