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Passe in sentence

11 examples of Passe in a sentence

Everything shouts 'amateur', from the crumby script (bizarre premises, limited coherence and predictable endings; the turgid lighting, sound and hand-held wobbly camera angles; the coy and passe sexual inneundo and references; the patchy and unbelievable dialgoue to the Z rate acting.
So while other actresses were wondering why their careers were foundering (because they were clinging to characters that had been the "in" thing a few years before but were now becoming passe) Joan was listening to the public and securing her longevity as an actress.
Today (2001) it is rather passe to have a black actor in a major role, jazz as the defining music, unstructured modern dance a la Martha Graham, and progressive political ideas bantered about.
Italian-American ethnic humor, and similar mafia-based spoofs are pretty passe by now, wouldn't you think?
The story is good but the way it was handled....I cringed when an intelligent actress like Kajol is made to do those heavy-duty unrealistic emotional scenes so associated with Bollywood that we thought its passe now.
Aldrich made films that had older female protagonists popular in the sixties by giving these starring roles to ladies that were a bit aged and considered passe.
The real lesson for the periphery is surely this: in anything but mega-countries, nationally managed monies are passe.
"My man is un peu passe, but he will come through all right," answered my uncle.
Je passe par la Suisse.
En revanche, il ne se passe pas de mois qu’ils ne m’adressent quelque lettre anonyme abominable, j’ai été obligée de prendre un secrétaire pour lire les lettres de ce genre.
– Il se passe ici une nouvelle iniquité dont le tribun du peuple doit prendre connaissance, lui dit cet homme fou d’amour.