• In part this is just the desire of a slightly gauche place to appear hip.

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  • About 16% support the far-right National Front and about 17% the neo-communist Left Front (Front de Gauche).

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  • Despite his gauche manner, he is the only one with the oomph to wound the younger Mr Bush seriously.

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  • And you made it less gauche for women to talk about their private part by referring to it as vajayjay.

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  • There is, perhaps, something a little gauche in his confessional volubility.

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  • Hence, the French left has always rejected criticism of champagne socialism (gauche-caviar) on the ground that what matters are the policies, not the lifestyles, of Socialist leaders.

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  • Congress is already unsure whether Mrs Gandhi's gauche 37-year-old son and presumed successor, Rahul, would be ready to lead the party in an election due by 2009.

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  • Summing up Rive Gauche grungy in style, it was hardly the Golden Globes yet made up for the lack of glamour by being unpredictable and thoroughly entertaining.

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  • When a real-life Frenchwoman moves into the neighborhood, Ms. Beaulieu sneaks over to inhale a bit of Paris through forbidden spritzes of Yves Saint Laurent's perfume Rive Gauche.

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  • Champagne socialists the world over -- or the Gauche Caviar in France -- have often trotted out his rhetoric as justification for splashing the cash during a downturn.

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  • This, however, is not the fashionable opinion in hip tech circles, where admitting a preference to anything besides Gmail is gauche and unseemly, rather like going to an Arcade Fire concert in a Justin Bieber tee shirt.

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  • For the son of a shopkeeper executed by the Yugoslav Communists, getting to the rive gauche was a welcome escape from the gloom of the Balkans, and it guaranteed him a prestigious job as a professor of literature back home.

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  • Urbane and urban: "Hitch" is very much a tale of Manhattan -- lower Manhattan, where Ms. Mendes's Sara works as a gossip columnist for an upmarket downtown tabloid, and farther-flung parts of the island, where Hitch counsels gauche, lovelorn men in the art of approaching and attracting the women of their dreams.

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  • The political climate has, however, and I would expect to see more pushback against those of us who would be so gauche as to criticize the DHS and the TSA. After one of my articles questioning the need for a the TSA, a commenter expressed the wish that I, my friends, and my family would die in a terrorist attack.

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  • Turin had great fun penning his reviews, giving raves to fragrances he liked ("Thanks to Rive Gauche, mortals can at last know the scent of the goddess Diana's bath soap") and slamming those he hated ("57 for Her is a sad little thing, an incongruous dried-prunes note with a metallic edge that manages the rare feat of being at once cloying and harsh").

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