How to Use enfant terrible in a Sentence

enfant terrible

noun

• Read on for a look back over the year’s cream of the crop… and its enfants terribles.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 23 Dec. 2019
• His style earned him the title of the German opera world’s enfant terrible.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2022
• There was a time when the undisputed enfant terrible of the couture was Jean Paul Gaultier.
  — Kristen Bateman, Town & Country, 9 July 2021
• And yet this was no return to his early East Village enfant terrible days, when Chang punched hole after hole in the kitchen walls.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
• Joel was the radical; Richard, the lover; Giles, the organizer; Jimmy, the enfant terrible; and Doug, the cipher.
  — Hugh Ryan, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 June 2021
• At 11 years and change, the enfant terrible is already sporting the hunchback and hook nose, and dreaming of world domination.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 June 2022
• Julius Malema, the enfant terrible of South African politics, vows that his enemies have nowhere to hide.
  — Erin Conway-Smith, Foreign Affairs, 7 May 2019
• The onetime enfant terrible, now a 50-year-old whose best work was behind him, reached inside to create his masterpiece.
  — Gary Kamiya, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Mar. 2021
• For Serre to obliquely reference Parisian fashion’s enfant terrible makes sense—even if her new print takes its name from aquatic life.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 29 Sep. 2020
• Over a six-decade career, Mr. Kupfer would direct more than 200 opera productions and go from enfant terrible to elder statesman.
  — Michael Cooper, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• Now, fashion’s enfant terrible returns to the ever-versatile seating, this time for a bold new outdoor edition that debuts just in time for the warmer months.
  — Helena Madden, ELLE Decor, 11 Mar. 2022
• Halston’s enfant terrible act is starting to wear thin on everyone around him.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 17 May 2021
• Architecture's enfant terrible Odile Decq is known for her distinct style inspired by punk and goth, a result of her spending time in London in the early 1980s.
  — Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 28 Oct. 2021
• 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.
  — Emily Kirkpatrick, PEOPLE.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• Once, the enfant terrible of the White Stripes had routinely denounced computers for their deadening effects on rock.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022
• After rave reviews but slow sales, Lollapalooza kick-started the career of enfant terrible de la Rocha and his band of merry muckrakers.
  — Katherine Turman, SPIN, 26 Feb. 2022
• Dalle has long been the enfant terrible of French cinema, as well as one if its most chic representatives at worldwide film festivals.
  — Vogue, 20 May 2019
• But any curatorial choice that gives us fewer immersive rooms and preening enfants terribles doesn’t seem so bad to me.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 May 2024
• By 1980, Claude Montana was known both as an enfant terrible and for his almost monastic adherence to the principles of apparel design.
  — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• Check in with the enduring enfant terrible of American fiction.
  — Sophie Kemp, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2019
• Margaret, four years younger than her sister, was the enfant terrible, charming, witty and outrageous, with a strong competitive streak and need for attention.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
• With each successive effort, he’s gotten closer to answering the question: What happens when an enfant terrible grows up?
  — Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2022
• Von Trier’s willingness to play the enfant terrible was a big part of his early legend, but so was his almost preternatural assurance with a camera.
  — Adam Nayman, The New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2022
• On the one hand, Mr. Brook was the enfant terrible with a talent for resuscitating classic plays and drawing major performances from major actors.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 July 2022
• Likewise, David Chang, who has transitioned from the food world’s enfant terrible to one of its elder statesmen, is openly addressing the mental and physical pressures of his industry.
  — Kristina O’Neill, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2018
• Humored my enfant terrible by inquiring about a tattoo.
  — Washington Post, 31 Dec. 2021
• In this origin story, the writers and directors have re-magined Lara as an orphaned enfant terrible, a radical bike courier rebelling against a privileged past.
  — Mark Rapp, cleveland.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• The manager was already shaping up to be English football's latest enfant terrible, a precocious talent with an insatiable hunger for success on his own terms.
  — SI.com, 17 May 2018
• After a 10-year hiatus, the enfant terrible of gay fiction, Dennis Cooper, returns with I Wished, which may just be his most surreal, disturbing, vulnerable work yet (which is saying a lot).
  — Vogue, 11 Aug. 2021
• Martin Shkreli burst on the scene as an enfant terrible, a securities savant who was working on Wall Street at 17, set up his own hedge fund at 23, and launched the biotech company Retrophin after teaching himself biology.
  — Patricia Hurtad, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018

Last Updated: 16 Oct 2024