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objet trouve

noun as in found object

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Viewed at a certain level, "Casual" is a work of objet trouve, constructed from a mélange of currently popular TV tropes down to Silver Lake as the new Brooklyn.

Today, Fassbender is both Magneto in the ‘‘X-Men’’ series and a darling of critics and intellectuals; he’s somehow a pinup and an objet trouvé and also playing Steve Jobs.

The online, social equivalent of Duchamp’s readymade art, or objet trouvé.

And, for the most part, Téchiné—whose natural mode is melodrama, as in such films as “French Provincial” and “My Favorite Season”—gives the objet trouvé just enough polish to showcase its natural allure.

The show consists of a single room-filling objet trouvé titled “Diamond Crossing.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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