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"enfant terrible" Definitions
  1. a person who is young and successful and whose behaviour and ideas may be unusual, causing people to be shocked or embarrassedTopics Successc2
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This onetime enfant terrible has grown into an elder statesman.
De Robertis revels in a naughty schoolgirl, enfant terrible persona.
In other words, it is the enfant terrible of Turkish politics.
Could it be that the former enfant terrible is slowing down?
Is he a charlatan or an ­enfant terrible of the spirit world?
She was seen as a whiny brat, an enfant terrible, a narcissist.
First, she was the wholesome Hannah Montana, then the wild child enfant terrible.
Hiking in California's gold country with John Adams, an enfant-terrible-turned-elder-statesman.
"In every family, there is an enfant terrible... I prefer to keep my enfant terrible within the family and to speak with him and to be able to reason with him," Daul told reporters, though he also confirmed that the resolution targeted Hungary.
All at once, it seems, the enfant terrible of yesteryear is a grand older man.
I knew the rough outline of Jake Paul: YouTube enfant terrible, bad rapper, bad neighbor.
He was an "enfant terrible," the chef who lost opportunities because of his drug addiction.
The designer has long revelled in his reputation image as fashion's "enfant terrible", or bad boy.
Gary Taubes, the enfant terrible of nutrition writing, has long been making the case that that's wrong.
Mr. Matovic is the leader of the Ordinary People Party, and the enfant terrible of Slovak politics.
John Patrick McEnroe Jr., the latest tennis prodigy, had become the putative new enfant terrible of sport.
Recently, Gaetano Pesce — the 79-year-old, Italian-born, perennial enfant terrible of iconoclastic design — performed a chair.
Like they, Schöffer practised an enfant terrible technophilia that took a transdisiplinary approach to both art and technology.
Miguel Adrover, New York fashion's onetime enfant terrible, who was hailed as a genius and since retreated to Majorca.
However, unlike the MLB, NFL leadership doesn't seem to be in any rush to denounce their mascot enfant terrible.
She's a literary darling: an enfant terrible whose uncompromising diaries of her life as sex worker scandalized bourgeois Parisian society.
I was the 'enfant terrible,' the 'wunderkind,' and that allows a form of behavior I don't want to do again.
A new book chronicles the decade-long run of Weirdo, an oddball magazine founded by the comix world's enfant terrible.
Or Boston's enfant terrible, Brad Marchand, a brilliant hockey player whose on-ice behavior ranges between edgy, creepy, and borderline criminal.
" Her student piece mocking the übermocking editors of Private Eye earns her enfant-terrible status and the nickname "the buxom hackette.
Antonin Artaud, the enfant terrible of French cinema and theater, who wrote the screenplay for The Seashell, deemed the film unsuccessful.
I'd thought that West, once the enfant terrible of pop culture but now a married father of two, had finally become mature.
Among the former are Beck, Wrabel, Khalid, Uffie (an enfant terrible beloved by French pop aficionados in the aughts), and Cash Cash.
Pharmaceutical company enfant terrible Martin Shkreli is being dragged before a congressional hearing today to talk about the skyrocketing price of drugs.
Still, at 62, the literary scene's enfant terrible, he declines to give interviews to French papers or to appear on talk shows.
He has sometimes been pilloried as impish and arrogant, and he bristles at being labeled an "enfant terrible," as he often is.
Next, he was the enfant terrible, suspended and stripped of his captaincy for maturity issues that included a predilection for kicking opponents.
Critics will critique, haters will hate, and filmmakers will film — and this particular enfant terrible has made a breakthrough as a director.
Another challenging-to-stage work of prose fiction is "The Possibility of an Island," by France's other great literary enfant terrible, Michel Houellebecq.
A series of abrasive and provocative early plays, such as his debut "Shopping and Fucking" (1996), cemented his reputation as an enfant terrible.
Gael García Bernal stars as the enfant-terrible music director of the fictional New York Symphony; Lola Kirke is Ms. Tindall's onscreen doppelgänger.
Bolton, the enfant terrible of the Bush administration, has a kindred spirit of sorts in Mr. Trump, a fellow practitioner of blowtorch politics.
This piece is one chord, by the midcentury French artistic "enfant terrible" Yves Klein, who is best known for his signature blue paint.
" Even the anticlerical enfant terrible Luis Buñuel was impressed, praising "Joan" as "the freshest, most interesting film in the current motion picture season.
Only in his mid-twenties, he was the enfant terrible of the pop world, crafting teenage symphonies with his bombastic "Wall of Sound" style.
Occasionally, the casual sexism that pokes through Hickey's prose makes him look less like the art world's enfant terrible than its dirty old uncle.
The show has fully embraced the "prestige" formula, constructing seismic drama from the rippling epicenter of a gifted, selfish, and wholly destructive enfant terrible.
Gaultier, the self-style "enfant terrible" of the fashion world, was also deliberately harking back to a period when smoking was more widely acceptable.
Throughout his earlier years, he was known as the enfant terrible (a French expression which roughly translates to being an "unruly child" in English).
I found that very interesting: the craft and sense of tradition on the one hand, and the enfant terrible shocking the world on the other.
Il a parfois été cloué au pilori pour son audace et son arrogance, et a souvent été qualifié d'" enfant terrible ", une étiquette qui l'horripile.
The final season of Girls starts this month, yet another version of 24 arrives, and New York's millennial enfant terrible, Cat Marnell, finally releases her memoir.
He's led more than 100 activist campaigns, sat on the boards of companies like Citrix and eBay, and been labeled Elliott's "enfant terrible" by Fortune magazine.
Mr. Melgaard, who is known for exploring sexual and drug-related themes in his work, is sometimes referred to as the enfant terrible of Norwegian art.
Mr. Cattelan, an enfant terrible of the art world best known for his 18-karat-gold toilet called "America," contributed a hallucinogenic collage set to Handel.
Today, these lyrics are part of the musical canon alongside the rabble-rousers of the chanson française tradition, like Serge Gainsbourg and anarchist enfant terrible Léo Ferré.
Long seen as the "enfant terrible" of Czech cinema, Němec constantly found himself in trouble with Czech government authorities, and was almost arrested for making this film.
The young Harvard grad was an irresistible figure, depicted as the rare millennial enfant terrible who, with a precocious smirk, was willing to kick against the pricks.
My friend Adam Michnik, enfant terrible of this Polish Revolution, once told me what he had fought for at the price of repeated imprisonment under the Communists.
He has gone from being an enfant terrible to an éminence grise, beloved of even the staid BBC, which encourages him to be as colorful as possible.
However, it forcefully established Basquiat's rags to riches trajectory (or as BBC's recent 2018 documentary title updates with "Rage to Riches"), from enfant terrible to the cataclysmic martyr.
When she and her husband, former NFL enfant terrible Jerramy Stevens, borrowed a team van and were pulled over and charged with DUI, Solo was suspended 30 days.
He would later write of his nervous excitement at threading his way into their gathering, past the reigning enfant terrible Robert Mapplethorpe, and spying his own artwork there.
In 2015, Miley Cyrus was the enfant terrible of pop culture, showing up barely clothed on the red carpet, smoking pot, and twerking on anything and everything in sight.
Here she is at her best: Occasionally, the casual sexism that pokes through Hickey's prose makes him look less like the art world's enfant terrible than its dirty old uncle.
At its annual conference in Helsinki in September, the grouping's president, Joseph Daul, referred to Mr. Orban as the enfant terrible of the family, but a family member even so.
Thakur had been built up as a strong candidate, but now it was clear that even the BJP, according to reports, was unsure of how to handle their hotheaded enfant terrible.
After working with Madonna and Luc Besson for his film The Fifth Element, that was something fun to do... When I started doing this, I was a punk — an enfant terrible.
Fifteen years ago, Larry Ellison — the billionaire co-founder of Oracle, and the enfant terrible of an earlier generation of tech moguls — denounced what he saw as Silicon Valley's slow-footed stagnation.
The two men had a falling out and Geoffrey left, so his return sets tongues wagging at the prospect of this enfant terrible returning to shake up the staid New Burbage Festival.
YouTube's enfant terrible, Logan Paul, rang in the new year crossing the line when he published his vlog of a trip to Japan's so-called Suicide Forest, stumbling across an apparent suicide victim.
The premise here is that Borg labored to bury those feelings (there are flashbacks to his past as an enfant terrible), with the help and tutelage of his coach, Lennart Bergelin (Stellan Skarsgard).
Recently, EDM has emerged as the enfant terrible of the electronic music world, and that's not to say the stereotypes these movies and TV shows depict, like neon tank top-wearing bros, don't exist.
The players had to be so-called amateurs, paid under the table, and as an enfant terrible, Buchholz used to rage against line officials, dozing in the afternoon sunlight after their pre-match lunch.
Fashion's "enfant terrible", who designed Madonna's cone brassiere for her 1990 "Blond Ambition" tour, takes on his first revue show, in which an abandoned theatre comes back to life thanks to an underground party.
Another member of the household described Anastasia as "witty, vivacious, hopelessly stubborn, delightfully impertinent, and in general a perfect enfant terrible… in naughtiness, she was a true genius," according to The Fate of the Romanovs.
Uber, once the enfant terrible of the tech industry, put on its big kid pants and publicly filed for IPO this week, attempting to prove, once and for all, that it's got its crap together.
Since the socially conservative and mildly Eurosceptic Law and Justice party (PiS in Polish) won the parliamentary elections on October 25th, the country has gone from being the poster child of European integration to enfant terrible.
Born Robert Zimmerman in 1941, Dylan was the enfant terrible of the New York City folk scene—a impish trickster who annoyed (and stole from) many of his elders, particularly Dave Van Ronk and Pete Seger.
The organist Paul Jacobs, who is the chairman of the organ department at Juilliard and has played Guillou works, said that despite his reputation as an enfant terrible, Mr. Guillou exhibited great refinement in his music.
He's been dubbed the "enfant terrible" of Spain's culinary scene, thanks to signature dishes like Pekinese dumplings, served on a sheet of greaseproof paper splattered with strawberry hoi sin sauce in the style of a Jackson Pollock painting.
Mr. Hertzan said the network was recruiting top progressives to host a new wave of shows and developing a weekly program with Anand Giridharadas, an MSNBC enfant terrible whose book, "Winners Take All," denounces self-serving billionaire philanthropists.
Peter Sellars, a Mortier favorite and onetime enfant terrible, returned to stage Mozart's "La Clemenza di Tito," with Mr. Currentzis and MusicAeterna in the pit and bits of the composer's Mass in C Minor interjected into the proceedings.
Each recent production has seemingly moved Letts — who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for the epic family drama "August: Osage County" — further away from his earlier reputation as enfant terrible, which he says was always overstated anyway.
Long at loggerheads with the EU over Greece's economy and migration, the bloc's former enfant terrible has now won widespread praise in the EU for putting to rest a protracted name dispute with neighboring Macedonia at considerable political cost.
THE DEATH & LIFE OF JOHN F. DONOVAN The Québécois enfant terrible filmmaker Xavier Dolan caused a minor stir in the film world when he announced that he had cut Jessica Chastain from this movie, his first English-language feature.
There was even a sense of anti-climax in Monday's third round when he dispatched Australia's enfant terrible Nick Kyrgios with ease — after all British fans have a masochistic fascination for drama when it comes to cheering home hopes.
Especially in the 1980s, when he acquired a reputation as both the enfant terrible of modern dance and its most promising heir — promise that was soon fulfilled — he was outspoken, outrageous, and, regarding his homosexuality, always and unashamedly out.
As Austria turns to the right, the bloc's top official dealing with EU's ties vis-à-vis its neighbors, Commissioner Johannes Hahn of Austria, sought to ease concerns that Vienna may become a new enfant terrible in the bloc.
Hedi Slimane, an enfant terrible of high fashion who masterminded a turnaround of fortunes at Yves Saint Laurent, has left his position as creative and image director of the house after almost four years, it was announced on Friday.
Combative, relentless and proudly impolitic, known for a bushy mustache that is the delight of cartoonists, Mr. Bolton, the enfant terrible of the Bush administration, has a kindred spirit of sorts in Mr. Trump, a fellow practitioner of blowtorch politics.
Having gone from being hip-hop's enfant terrible as the de facto leader of Odd Future to one of the smartest and most easily recognizable producers currently doing it, Tyler, the Creator's evolution has been an interesting one to watch.
Still an enfant terrible at 216, Tarantino made waves with his announcement that his latest feature The Hateful Eight would play in glorious 29mm at various "roadshow" locations around the country, complete with additional footage exclusive to the 270mm version.
The second is the 35-year-old Julius Malema, a former enfant terrible of the A.N.C. who now leads the Economic Freedom Fighters, a radical populist party appealing to the very poor with policies of public ownership and land redistribution.
For many of his friends and acquaintances, Basquiat remains suspended in time, still the teenage or early-twenty-something enfant terrible, the couch-surfing habitué of downtown Manhattan, Club 57, the Bowery, by turns magnetically charming and detached, but irrepressibly talented.
Discovering Design: Isaac Mizrahi (Friday) Mr. Mizrahi — the designer who got his start as an enfant terrible of the fashion world and is now the subject of the retrospective "Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History," on view at the Jewish Museum through Aug.
Mr. Gaultier found this premise ideal for exploring his own aesthetic vision, and the show features many of the sartorial tropes that earned him the long-held title of fashion's enfant terrible, including tattoos, graffiti, body modification, androgyny, fetish wear and punk.
But he is also an enfant terrible for Europe's political elites, who breathed a sigh of relief when Ms. Merkel announced last month that she had secured a governing deal, seemingly ending five months of political limbo in Europe's most important capital.
This is evident throughout the Cockyboys films, wherein porn is raised to a new art form, with beautiful and deeply sensual high-definition footage that often features the pretty, tattooed-type of enfant terrible boys I most adore taking turns fucking each other.
Ms. Despentes, who is now 48, has been consistently cast as a foul-mouthed enfant terrible since "Baise-moi"; her own film adaptation, in 2000, proved so controversial that a new rating was created for it in France, barring all minors from attending.
An equal distance southwest lands you at Fournier Street: home to a different kind of enfant terrible — the British artist Tracey Emin, whose most famous work, "My Bed" (24), featured Ms. Emin's own authentically unmade bed, strewn with cigarettes and used condoms.
Lee, still the cinematic enfant terrible whose masterpiece "Do The Right Thing" set my 16-year-old heart aflame during the summer of 1989, gave a poignantly stirring acceptance speech dressed in full purple regalia in homage to the late artist Prince.
Next month it will have been 25 years since the 48-year-old first burst onto the fashion scene with his inaugural runway show at London Fashion Week, part of a much-lauded enfant terrible generation that included the likes of Alexander McQueen.
Part revue, part catwalk show, the production presents new creations by Gaultier, long known as fashion's "enfant terrible", vintage outfits as well as references to his iconic looks from Breton striped sailor tops to the conical bra worn by Madonna during her 1990 "Blonde Ambition" tour.
Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 1985, with a flamboyant, gelid eye and taunting provocative shrugs of jaded contempt for new-money denizen art collectors, Gary Indiana (né Hoisington) strode forth onto the art scene as an insouciant enfant terrible art critic for The Village Voice.
Perhaps the experience of being so hotly contested has something to do with the equanimity Salle exhibits in "How to See," his debut collection of essays: The former enfant terrible (his words) is now an affable elder statesman with an upbeat, noncombative approach to art criticism.
This downtown doyen, once an enfant terrible and now an established master, was celebrated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on his 60th birthday in 2013, as performances of his work sprawled through the building, an experience that, for this art lover, was, "mind-changing, life-changing," he said.
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the prolific English composer long known as an anti-establishment anti-monarchist avant-gardist enfant terrible — but whose work was so renowned that he was named Queen Elizabeth II's official music master anyway — died on Monday at his home in the Orkney Islands of Scotland.
Back in 1984, two years after the Portland Building's construction, New York's perennial enfant terrible, the 78-year-old Philip Johnson — never one to miss a trend — and his partner, John Burgee, elevated Post-Modernism into the Manhattan skyline with their 753-story AT&T Building at 550 Madison.
Takahashi is not quite an enfant terrible — Undercover celebrated its 280th anniversary two years ago with a major exhibition in Japan — but this stunning spectacle seemed the start of something: a culmination of an aesthetic that has, season after season, become increasingly elaborate and unconventional, but above all, sophisticated.
This biography of Klaus Mann, a "literary enfant terrible of the Weimar era," focusses on his relationship with his domineering father, Thomas Mann; his struggle to live openly as a homosexual; his exile after the rise of the Nazis; and his drug addiction and his fixation with suicide.
Season 3 of this Golden Globe-winning series, spun from Blair Tindall's memoir, finds the fictional New York Symphony shattered in the midst of a lockout — and Rodrigo, its enfant terrible music director (Gael García Bernal), on a tempestuous Italian adventure with the opera diva Alessandra (Monica Bellucci).
After a rocky year that resulted in recruiting violations and saw Kiffin pick fights with other coaches, college football's enfant terrible bolted for USC in such an off-putting, fan-antagonizing manner that that his mother was "terrified" for Kiffin's safety when he later returned to Knoxville as Alabama's offensive coordinator.
With that in mind, I am planning to make a pilgrimage to Martin Picard's Cabane A Sucre Au Pied De Cochon, in Mirabel, outside Montreal, where this enfant terrible of Quebecois cuisine conjures artery-hardening dishes inspired by maple syrup — all washed down, of course, with a good Burgundy wine.
He guided two sets of illustrious actors to benchmark performances in the leading adversarial roles: Paul Scofield (as Salieri) and Simon Callow (as Mozart) in London, and Ian McKellen (who won a Tony for his Salieri) and Tim Curry (a raging enfant terrible as young Wolfgang) on Broadway in 1980.
" The Beijing-born, Canadian-raised enfant terrible was once the poster boy of aughts excess — a decade ago, he gold-plated his own feces and sold them at Art Basel for about a half-million dollars; he also once, rather infamously, told T, "I am the Naomi Campbell of the art world.
And just last week, two bits of related news surfaced—that the country had allegedly paid Twitter employees to spy for them; and that former Uber CEO and enfant terrible Travis Kalanick had reportedly attempted, unsuccessfully, to obscure that the sovereign wealth fund was a significant source of funding for his new startup.
A onetime enfant terrible of the French literary establishment, who went on to win the prestigious Prix Renaudot in 2010, Despentes is perhaps best known for her notorious 2000 film "Baise-Moi," based on her novel of the same name — " 'Thelma and Louise' as scripted by Lorena Bobbitt," in the words of one reviewer.
Walking through the curators' proliferation of words and images—an excellent time line helps to anchor Abdoh's progress from nice Iranian boy to enfant terrible—one realizes that what connects these ghostly works, which now exist only on video and in photographs, reviews, and other ephemera, is sound, sound that floods the show at PS1.
Damian Master is the enfant terrible of underground metal—an unapologetic, relentlessly creative force who racks up friends and enemies in equal measure, and frustrates his critics with the undeniable quality of his many projects (the best-known of which is probably A Pregnant Light upon whose Neon White EP I waxed romantic here).
But given the latitude of a column, he became Washington's enfant terrible, attacking the Nixon administration over the war in Vietnam, violent police crackdowns on protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and President Richard M. Nixon's taped Oval Office profanities as the Watergate scandal closed in, forcing his resignation in 1974.
It's been a while since Mr. Gaultier was considered the enfant terrible of fashion, courting controversy by finding inspiration in the clothing of the Orthodox Jewish community, pulling down the velvet rope of inaccessibility with one of the very first contemporary lines, challenging gender stereotypes, putting models of all sizes and ages on the catwalk.
Since his enfant terrible debut in 1984, Mr. Jacobs has been a proponent of more, more, more: more frills and fabulosity (as guests wearing the enormous concoctions from his recent runway shows could attest), more radical honesty (as anyone who can remember the tabloid high jinks around his slips and sexcapades) and more good-natured shrugging about both.
An enfant terrible of fashion in the 1990s (a label he doesn't quite reject, but is more befuddled by), Mizrahi served as the antidote to the Calvin Klein and Helmut Lang minimalism that defined the decade, joining contemporaries like Todd Oldham and Michael Simon to make colorful noise on the then-quiet runways of New York.
Writers, publishers, and editors made up most of the guest list, including William F. Buckley Jr., the enfant terrible of the right; Frank Hanighen, cofounder of Human Events; Raymond Moley, Newsweek columnist and author of the anti–New Deal book After Seven Years (21940); and John Chamberlain, former editor of the Freeman and an editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal.
Early on, while taking us on a whistle-stop tour of his cinematic career and the maddening mores of Hollywood, he speaks to us not as the enfant terrible, the Pope of Trash or the Prince of Puke we might expect, but as a canny and wizened realist who has been able to work the system, even when it has failed him.
In his early years, he delighted in remembering later on, he was described as an "enfant terrible" of his field; at an age when others would retire (he never did) he re-styled himself as wily old Uncle Syd, dispensing sharp questions and half-formed provocations, surprising young researchers with an ability to know what organism they were working on by reading just a snatch of DNA or protein sequence over their shoulder.

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