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They were the triumphal enfant terrible of the UK's post-punk, independent music scene.
And what of working with Stone himself, the enfant terrible who seems to thrive on provocation?
The 39-year-old looks more like an accountant than the enfant terrible of contemporary Hollywood cinema.
His break with the bank has earned him a reputation as an enfant terrible who is inclined to stir up trouble wherever he goes.
At 39, he is no longer young enough to be an enfant terrible, but people still peg him as a kid too cool to grow up.
Notoriously single-minded, the erstwhile enfant terrible of the Belgian art world is a Renaissance man, despite his penchant for drenching everything in body fluids.
Stu Ungar, who repeated as champion that year, was a coke-addled enfant terrible whose wavelength happened to be out of phase with that of the London man of letters.
Jérôme Bel has the reputation of an enfant terrible among those searching for the ultimate provocation.
Marc Ravenhill, English dramatist, enfant terrible of his generation, has written nearly a dozen plays with explosive ingredients.
I had seen his performances, and he represented what I would describe as bad choreography, in the sense that he was quite transgressive, an enfant terrible.
The American concert pianist and composer made his mark in Paris in the 1920's as a genuine enfant terrible, courting controversy and working hard for his notoriety.
She was an enfant terrible who didn't care what people thought.
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.
He was an enfant terrible of culinary art, impossibly difficult to work for, fastidious about his creations and possessing a volcanic temper and savage tongue.
This has earned him a reputation in the business press and among policy elites as an enfant terrible inclined to stir up trouble wherever he goes.
Instead of treating me as an enfant terrible they nurtured me along.
Years later, Jones would express some regret over his reputation as an enfant terrible, preferring to be known as Daniel Jones.
Known as the enfant terrible of fashion, Jean Paul Gaultier is undoubtedly one of the most important designers of recent decades.
Landau was a mathematical prodigy and enfant terrible.
Later the rich and the famous became obsessed by the stone and the most prominent collector was the legendary enfant terrible of the international jet set, Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton.
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She was an enfant terrible, whose friends no one knew, who passed for very wise, and whose lines of intrigue were inscrutable.
Of him and of his recruits in South Africa, Churchill spoke with the awful frankness of the enfant terrible.
Wedekind, who to the mtier of the artist joins that of the enfant terrible, strains in this play every nerve to shock.
The enfant terrible is making papa and mamma alike ridiculous by showing us mamma's lover, who is lurking behind the screen.
He has always been rather an unknown quantity, and he is regarded by the powers as an enfant terrible.
On the literary side of things I am, I fear, a Philistine, or enfant terrible.
On first impression, the 47-year-old choreographer seems less like a graying enfant terrible than the proverbial kid in the candy store.
The original enfant terrible of Brit Art has been given a totally paint-free Grand Prix vehicle to cover with his own design, for an exhibition.
The argumentative child is scarcely less trying than the enfant terrible.
This was Princess Myakaya, noted for her simplicity and the roughness of her manners, and nicknamed enfant terrible.
He's been called the enfant terrible of fashion for so long, you wonder how much of an enfant he could still be.
Though John insisted on professionalism and was always businesslike, his pose as an enfant terrible was maybe not a pose.
Yesterday it was England's enfant terrible, David Beckham, who answered United's cry for help.
The Canadian, 35, once the enfant terrible of F1, has been replaced for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix by BMW-Sauber's promising 21-year-old reserve driver Robert Kubica.
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