outre
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Wineman isn’t afraid to spelunk truly deranged depths, but what’s remarkable is how much style he incorporates into the film’s most outré moments.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
Yet Keaton’s off-kilter taste—reflected elsewhere in her rambling dialogue delivery and outré fashion sense—is in evidence in her attraction to the strange personalities asked to ruminate on the hereafter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026
Without food, Bong’s work would lose the indelible humanity that even his most outré, provocative films hold as a point of pride.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
But not all of Marlon’s brainstorms were so outré, and here is the Brando’s principal innovative success.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024
His style becomes greyer and greyer, his thoughts outré, exaggerated, a kind of credulity or superstition exercised upon abstract words.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.