succès de scandale
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of succès de scandale
literally: success of scandal
Example Sentences
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But after its success and the succès de scandale of “Last Tango in Paris,” released in the United States the following year, Brando went back to doing movies for cash.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 17, 2019
“The Real Lolita” incorporates interviews with surviving neighbors and family members of Horner and La Salle, court documents and prison records, newspaper accounts of the crime and archival material relating to Nabokov’s succès de scandale.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2018
And then came the breakthrough: Portnoy’s Complaint, the succès de scandale that made Roth the most famous writer of his day.
From Slate ● May 23, 2018
According to Mr. Gandini, the show was a succès de scandale because factory workers were staying up late to watch it.
From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2010
Their vogue is chiefly a succès de scandale.
From The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 by Various
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