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succès de scandale

succès de scandale noun: the success of work of art due primarily to scandalous subject matter rather than artistic merit.

Noun

succès de scandale

  1. The success of work of art due primarily to scandalous subject matter rather than artistic merit.
    • Whatever else, Irréversible is already a succès de scandale.2002 August 2, Geoffrey Macnab, “'The rape had to be disgusting to be useful'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    • The book was a success – of a kind: a succès de scandale; but it secured him a valuable patron.2010, Hugh Trevor-Roper, History and the Enlightenment, →ISBN, page 163

Examples of succès de scandale in a sentence

  • She first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV miniseries.2014, Kathy Lette, Courting Trouble, →ISBN:
  • In 1972, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari registered a succès de scandale with the French publication of Anti-Oedipus, now widely considered one of the most important poststructuralist texts.2014, Jennifer Birkett, Kate Ince, Samuel Beckett, →ISBN:
  • Nabokov may well have attended also, in early June 1921, the Busch-conducted premiere of Paul Hindemith's one-act operas Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen, and Das NuschNuschi, a major succès de scandale.2015, Vincent Giroud, Nicolas Nabokov: A Life in Freedom and Music, →ISBN:

Forms of succès de scandale

alternative formsucces de scandale

Origin of succès de scandale

Borrowing from French succès de scandale.

Questions about succès de scandale

What does succès de scandale mean?
Succès de scandale means the success of work of art due primarily to scandalous subject matter rather than artistic merit.
How do you use succès de scandale in a sentence?
She first achieved succès de scandale as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues, which was made into a major film and a TV miniseries.
What part of speech is succès de scandale?
Succès de scandale is a noun.

Words near succès de scandale in the dictionary

  1. succussing
  2. succussion
  3. succussions
  4. succussive
  5. succès d'estime
  6. succès de scandale
  7. succès fou
  8. succès fous
  9. Suceava
  10. Sucellus
  11. Sucevița

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