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used to refer particularly to those living a garish lifestyle with their newfound wealth; see also arriviste and parvenu. nouvelle vague lit. "new wave." Used for stating a new way or a new trend of something. Originally marked a new style of French filmmaking in the late 1950s and early 1960s, reacting against films seen as too literary.
For example, Atrahasis OB III, 30–31 "The Anunnaki, the great gods [were sitt]ing in thirst and hunger" was changed in Gilgamesh XI, line 113 to "The gods feared the deluge." Sentences in Atrahasis III iv were omitted in Gilgamesh, e.g. "She was surfeited with grief and thirsted for beer" and "From hunger they were suffering cramp." [20]
Deluge, a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright; Deluge, a 2008 novel by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Anne Sarborough; Le Déluge, a fictional work by J. M. G. Le Clézio. The Deluge, a 2014 book by Adam Tooze; The Deluge, Potop, an 1886 novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz about the historical event
A comprehensive style guide for general and academic use in Italy, Il Nuovo Manuale di Stile (2009), [18] does not address sentence spacing, but the Guida di Stile Italiano (2010), the official guide for Microsoft translation, tells users to use single sentence spacing "instead of the double spacing used in the United States". [19]
After me the Deluge ["Aprés moi le Déluge"]. When I am dead the deluge may come for aught I care. Generally ascribed to Prince Metternich, but the Prince borrowed it from Mme. Pompadour, who laughed off all the remonstrances of ministers at her extravagance by saying, "Aprés nous le déluge" (Ruin if you like, when we are dead and gone).