Sentence examples for avant from inspiring English sources

A long-lost avant garde painting has returned to Hungary after nine decades thanks to a sharp-eyed art historian, who spotted it being used as a prop in the Hollywood film Stuart Little.

Berény, the leader of a pre-first world war avant garde movement called the Group of Eights, fled to Berlin in 1920 after designing recruitment posters for Hungary's short-lived communist revolution in 1919.

This face of desperation is the face of the 19th century avant garde, risking and even courting sickness with drink and drugs.

The work of avant garde stars such as David Byrne sits on the outer edge of this global melting pot.

En verité, François avait changed long avant that.

Though he has been an important figure in the New York avant garde for 20 years, Hegarty grew up in Chichester, west Sussex.

I wrote a book about it, My Year Off, and ever since have been invited to counsel some well-known stroke sufferers, from the avant-garde theatre director Max Stafford-Clark, to the Tory grandee Douglas Hurd, and the film star Kirk Douglas.

"People love the diversity and avant-garde nature of it, and this year it will be better than ever".

The fact that Cannibal Holocaust's content has been less imitated than its style can only be good news for humanity, censorship panels, the ecosystem and avant-garde cuisine.

The "arts" conjures up images of committees of bores, worthily reverent exegesis, the horrors of dance, the misfit between opera and even a 42-inch screen, and ancient avant-gardist cliches – "ahead of its time", "ground-breaking", "controversial".

We wondered – plucking several descriptions out of thin air charged with electric ions – whether we should proceed by labelling it folk noir, avant-acoustica, ballad oscuro, Nico in trip-hop hell, or susurrating 21st century shadowplay?