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New wave   /nu weɪv/   Listen
New wave

noun
1.
An art movement in French cinema in the 1960s.  Synonym: Nouvelle Vague.
2.
Any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts).  Synonyms: avant-garde, van, vanguard.






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"New wave" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the whole temper of art in Europe of the later century is needed. We wander here beyond the fine distinctions of musical forms. A new wave of feeling had come over the world that violently affected all processes of thought. And strangely, it was strongest in the land where the great heights of poetry and music had just been reached. Where the high aim of a Beethoven ...
— Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies • Philip H. Goepp

... be saved; the crowd yells out: "Sentenced and hung!" and, authoritatively, appoints the judges. In vain does Lafayette insist and entreat three times that the judgment be regularly rendered, and that the accused be sent to the Abbaye. A new wave of people comes up, and one man, "well dressed," cries out: "What is the need of a sentence for a man who has been condemned for thirty years?" Foulon is carried off; dragged across the square, and hung ...
— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 2 (of 6) - The French Revolution, Volume 1 (of 3) • Hippolyte A. Taine



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