enfant terrible in English

noun
1
a person whose unconventional or controversial behavior or ideas shock, embarrass, or annoy others.
Though he was just beginning his teaching career, Barth was, at the time, already something of a controversial celebrity, an enfant terrible among European theologians.

Use "enfant terrible" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "enfant terrible" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "enfant terrible", or refer to the context using the word "enfant terrible" in the English Dictionary.

1. He became known as the enfant terrible of British theater.

2. A major change for wonderkind and enfant terrible Robin van Persie.

3. As the " enfant terrible " of modern music, such a role, he thoroughly enjoyed.

4. Gainsbourg seems to have delighted in his role as a cultural enfant terrible.

5. Her advanced ideas have made her the enfant terrible of the art world.

6. Known for his demanding personality, Steve Jobs is considered Silicon Valley's original enfant terrible.

7. The temptation might be to see it as simply a sign that the one-time enfant terrible of the London literary scene was reliving his father's descent into middle-aged Blimpishness

8. Corresponding to Judge Posner's Acidulous view of the judge as a kind of bureaucrat of modest abilities, hurrying to get through the day's work, is a view of the scholar as a prima donna motivated to astonish at whatever cost to common sense: the judge as tired old man and the scholar as enfant terrible.